Normally, opening night in the NFL is like a holiday to me. I order pizza and wings. I lock myself in the other room and enjoy the game. I’ve been doing this for as long as they’ve had opening night on Thursday.

That’s normal. We all know 2020 is anything but normal. As is the case for tonight. Instead of watching football I will be locked on to the Western Conference Finals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That’s because the Dallas Stars are playing.

In a normal situation, football would take precedence over hockey. But, then again, in a normal situation training camps wouldn’t eve have stated for the NHL. Here we are, though, playing the conference finals the second week of September. So I will be watching a game tonight. Just not like I normally would.