Just my opinion but as big as college football is and the money that $urrounds it; this sounds like the tail wagging the dog. In other words, it is just UNTHINKABLE that college football cannot be cancelled or more likely play in front of empty stadiums on TV only. Well, if the Covid 19 virus does come back to any degree next fall all bets are off. Life happens and suffering to some degree is inevitable; misery is optional. I think this is becoming a potential matter of grief.
Grief happens when we suffer or expect to suffer a loss and it need not be someone dying. It could be losing
anything or anyone. Examples. Losing a job, a loved one leaving, falling into addiction, financial loss, loss of health, mobility and on and on.
I was doing volunteer work in a TBI hospital and the psychologist told me about how these people were suffering from grief of knowing they were going to be institutionalized for the rest of their life. She recommended that I read about Elisabeth Kubler-Ross work on the
five stages of grief.
en.wikipedia.org
It was incredibly helpful to me in my life and understanding others. When my wife's mother died she had bouts of anger that went on for a few years. Instead of taking it personally or "trying to fix it" I was advised that it was her grieving and I could help by just being there for her and accepting that she was grieving. It wasn't me.............she was transferring her anger over losing her mom and I just happened to be at the end of it that way.
The denial or rationalization that college football could/could not be cancelled would be sad but it may happen and the sooner the idea of that begins to be accepted as a possibility the sooner one will be able to cope with it. In the big scheme of things....................how important is it? Life will go on. Think back to the baseball strike. It was unthinkable. Lot of folks turned off to baseball forever over that. That's sad. Grief is sadness. This model helped me understand why I sometimes feel about things or why others maybe are acting the way they are. Very freeing. I don't have to be a prisoner to what might have been/should have been.
