The Bundesliga opened to empty stadiums with fewer dives, fewer hugs, fewer handshakes and a lot of eyes on how it sounded, looked and felt. SNJeffBlair weighs in on what its return means for other leagues, 🇨🇦 Alphonso Davies' minutes and more ⤵️
And so now we await how many positive tests get posted by Bundesliga teams this week and whether anybody keels over. The game ain’t over any more until the fat lady tests. The first significant team sports competition of the pandemic opened to empty stadiums across Germany this weekend with fewer dives, fewer hugs, fewer handshakes — a 50ish-page medical protocol in place — and a lot of eyes on how it sounded, looked and felt.
Professional sports are like any other industry these days, balancing financial realities with the health and safety of their workers, except it is subject to more scrutiny than any of them because … well, there’s nothing else for sports reporters and commentators to write about. I mean, we’re down to the stems and seeds in terms of replacements. Is that H-O-R-S-E competition still going on? Or was it bounced aside by cornhole? Watching people play video games has shockingly run its course.
“The Bundesliga, even for our guys, is the real test,” Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney said Friday.
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