Sports are one of the main things in my life. The other being friends. I have now gone over 3 months without either. We also didn’t do a ton as friends during basketball season because frankly none of us wanted to watch games and that’s a big thing we do together.
I’m planning on hopefully seeing friends next weekend for the first time but we are still trying to limit what we do. If they cancel football I absolutely do not expect basketball. So cancelling football means a year with no sports.
You can also combine those cancellations with a few of the other things I do throughout the year. The fair and 4th of July festivities were cancelled. So the reality is I will be going an entire calendar year where all I do is work frankly. I want to work to live not live to work.
My mental health is stable for now but I don’t know where it would be without anything for the next 9 months. I don’t think your analogy is totally right. I’d say it is closer to taking chemo which has a 50% chance of healing cancer I may not even have.
You're really undermining your argument about sports being super important to the point that mental health concerns override physical health concerns when you admit that you didn't watch basketball because we were bad at it this year.