The Basement View

Every music fan understands the uncontrollable anticipation one has when they are waiting for their favorite artist to release a new album. Sports fans are now in that phase with their favorite sports league. Much like almost everything during the COVID-19 Pandemic for us fans its uncharted territory and the anticipation feels like crippling anxiety. However, fans should realize how special a time we are living in, in relation to the return of sports in our lives. The excitement that will return with sports coming back into our lives will be like nothing any fan has lived through. The interest in going and see sports in person will go up astronomically with the money that has been lost collectively will flood back into the pockets of the greedy owners. The coverage of sports and the consumption of every snippet of sports will have ratings on par with the Jordan documentary. Owners and players as well will return to the days of seeing millions of dollars enter their respective ban...

Jets fans live in that awful Tom Cruise Groundhog Day remake, The Edge of Tomorrow. Every year they go through free agency and the draft getting new players that us Jets fans assume will help us finally reach the pinnacle of football—the Super Bowl. Alas, we always wake up on schedule announcement day to a rocket exploding right in our face, and killing the dream of a Super Bowl win for yet another year. In 2020 Jets fans are still costarring with Tom Cruise. As good as the “experts” graded Joe Douglas’ first draft and how highly regarded the free agency moves have been, the NFL has given one of the worst teams in the league a top-10 hardest schedule based off the winning percentage of the teams from last season. Let’s not lose this one fact in revisionist history from the year that gang green had last season; that being how atrocious the coaching job was from bug eyed Adam Gase. Gase proved to the entire football world that he could not manage the responsibilities it takes to coa...