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A Society That Cannot Figure Out How To Wear a Mask Correctly Perhaps Does Not Deserve to Continue
This weekend, Jeremy Pruitt, head football coach for the Tennessee Volunteers, wore a facial covering that covered everything but his face. The great Spencer Hall, writer at the college football site Moon Crew, went on a glorious rant mocking Pruitt, and it’s one you are strongly encouraged to read in its entirety if you are someone who appreciates joy and mirth. But for a taste:
Jeremy Pruitt looks like the loneliest dude at Burning Man. Jeremy Pruitt looks like an undercover cop pulling up to a snowboarding halfpipe asking where he can get some “chronic.” Jeremy Pruitt looks like a Batman villain whose superpowers get stronger the closer he gets to a Rally’s.
The most hilarious thing about Pruitt’s attempt (?) to wear a mask on the sidelines of a football game is that this was meant to be an improvement. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey had threatened coaches with $100,000 fines if they weren’t wearing masks on the sidelines, and it probably tells you all you need to know about Southern college football coaches that almost all of them got it wrong anyway. Still: It is difficult to wear a mask in a way that’s so wrong that it covers everything but the parts that are breathing.
