And, while sports are certainly minor in comparison to keeping the world safe, the pain we may encounter still matters. It matters very much.

And, while sports are certainly minor in comparison to keeping the world safe, the pain we may encounter still matters. It matters very much.
We will go back to our regular routines at some point and are setting ourselves up for failure upon that return if we abandon all sense of normalcy now. We also truly don’t know how long social isolation will be our new normal, and how long can we really sit around and binge-watch anyway?
Remember that we coach in their sacred spaces. We are coaching the people they have loved, raised, cried, and prayed over long before we got them. For some, we are coaching their validation of self. I’m not making excuses for poor behavior, I’m offering a space for us to gather some empathy for the seemingly extreme reactions.