Girls Preparatory School athletic director Jay Watts was on his way home from Murfreesboro on Sunday evening following the previously undefeated Bruisers’ crushing 3-2 loss to Father Ryan in the TSSAA Division II-AA girls state soccer final when he began to reflect on what he’d just witnessed.
“It just struck me that it felt almost normal,” he said Monday morning. “There was a good-sized crowd (perhaps too big in these socially distancing times), the fans were screaming for their team and occasionally screaming at the officials, both teams were crying at the end for different reasons. It felt almost like a state title game in any other year.”
Then Watts was brought back to earth by what he’d be doing at Monday afternoon’s GPS Middle School basketball game.
“I remembered I’d be checking temperatures at the door,” he said. “It was another reminder that COVID is still with us and we’re still a long way from the normal we once knew.”
At least some of us (blush, blush) will do the same normal thing we’ve done once every fourth year on the first Tuesday in November for a good chunk of our lives – we’ll vote in today’s presidential election on Election Day rather than voting early or mailing our ballots in.