It's a Wednesday edition of Pro Football Talk Live, Wednesday that feels like Tuesday.

Yeah, Wednesday.

Yeah, Wednesday.

How about this?

Yeah, Tuesday afternoon from the NHL, the first sports league to announce semi-concrete plans for returning.

There's no specific date yet, but there will be a 24-team tournament for the Stanley Cup.

Seven teams on the outside looking in, 24 teams, 12 teams per conference in a postseason format that will be played in two hub cities, looking like it's going to be mid to late July.

That's about the time the NBA is loosely targeting a return, Chris.

So just about the time that the NFL is opening training camp, if all things go is planned, the NHL, and maybe the NBA

will be playing. I don't know what the hell is going on with baseball, but the bottom line is

sports are on the verge. Verge may be a little bit too strong of a word. Sports return is in the

offing, professional sports leagues making their plans to come back in the NHL yesterday

gives us something. Again, it's not firm, but it's at least there. And we know it's in the

pipeline. And that's good news as we try to get sports back. Yeah, well, it is good news. It's the first major sport we've seen come out with a plan to go, okay, this is what we're doing, this is where we're going. And it gives us some excitement. And you're right. I mean, I think we all feel it that it's around the corner. But, you know, there's still a lot of details as far as, you know, how that's going to shake out. And that's going to be

the interesting part here as we go on. Just, you know, the final details are the most important

ones. And that's the testing and all that and how does that all get figured out. So it's cool

to see the NHL take a big step there and hopefully all sports will follow here coming soon.

And of course, the fans, no fans question is going to linger, especially for football.

Chris, I don't know if you saw any of it yesterday, but there was a Bundesliga match on FS1.

Empty stands with fake crowd noise piped into the broadcast.

It was a strange thing because it sounded normal, but, you know, every three or four shots of the action made it obvious there was no one there.

So I don't know what's going to happen with NFL games this year.

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