Our first sports free month

I believe it was one month ago today that we saw our last games, a few stray MLB spring training games, and a couple college hoops tournament games (or parts of them). 

All the sports networks have been filling their schedules up with rebroadcasts of old games. Some of it has been very cool. I can't convey the tinge of nostalgia when an old Wolves broadcast mentioned upcoming games on "WB23"

But it's just not the same. It's just a reminder of what's been lost.

I watch some of these games, even stuff that was recent, and it feels like it happened in another world....which in a sense I guess it did.

We're never going back to this. Yes sports will return eventually and yes fans will return to the stadiums eventually. I will go to Target Field for a summertime ballgame. I will go to US Bank Stadium again for a big Vikings game. It may LOOK like it used to. But it will never again have that same feel.

When something gets taken away, and you know that it can be, that knowledge is always there.

Going to games was not always a constant for me. I went to a lot of Twins games mostly as a kid, but it wasn't until about 15 years ago that I started to go to sporting events constantly. Hell, at my peak around 2009-2010, between Twins and Vikings and Wolves and Gopher football and road trip games, and a few Wild, Lynx and even St. Paul Saints games, I was probably at some sort of game an average of probably twice a week. (God I miss the days of having that kind of money to burn)

It's nowhere near that now. Otoh I probably went to maybe 20 games total last year. At least I got in a Wild game in January. Could be the only game for the whole year.

It is going to be unavoidably weird being in crowds like that in the future.


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