Inevitable comeback

And now Nick Saban -- Nick Saban, charter member of the Control Freak Club -- has tested positive for the Bastard Plague.

And Alabama's athletic director has, too.

And Saban and his old adversary Les Miles, now the football coach at Kansas, are in isolation.

And LSU-Florida has been scrubbed this weekend because half the Gators, or so it seems, have shown red.

And everything everyone who knows what they're talking about warned would happen if the Let Them Play crowd got their way is indeed happening.

Which is that once we hit October, the start of sick season in America, the Plague would surge again. And that would be especially true on college campuses -- where you can put your football team in a bubble to keep the revenue stream burbling along, but, well, it's still a college campus and college kids will be college kids.

I guess that must be true, because if the Plague can even get to Nick Saban deep in the sanctum sanctorum that is Alabama Football Inc., it can get to anyone. Or everyone, as seems to be the case in Florida, where Ron "DeSanitizer" DeSantis, the state's idiot governor, recently declared it was perfectly safe to fill those football stadiums to the brim again.

Well. I guess that's a very loud "ahem" we're hearing now from Gainesville, isn't it?

And, sure, you can reschedule and move games and adjust on the fly, but there are only a finite number of weeks in which to do that. And what happens when you run out of them?

Beats me. But I'm looking at the Plague staging its inevitable comeback, and public officials in deep denial cavalierly flinging open the doors to public spaces anyway ("Ah, hell, it'll be fine"), and I'm back to wondering how college football is going to pull this off without completely unraveling. 

Maybe they still can. I hope so, because the games have been spectacular so far.

But if the Plague can get to Nick Saban ...