
The year 2020 was a mess the United States and the world are only now beginning to understand—one of mass death, sprawling unemployment, economic bifurcation and all kinds of social upheaval.
Sports was immune to none of these trends, but from a competitive perspective one element of the COVID-19 pandemic is often forgotten. That is the extent to which `20 and early 2021 were fertile ground for—put bluntly—weird stuff.