
19. No Return
For many minor sports leagues, playing behind closed doors is just not an option. If we talk about baseball and lower-division soccer leagues, they rely heavily on crowd attendance to make profit. To sum up, when you add up all of the costs, it’s just not profitable for these teams to play.

While they’d like to restart playing games, it’s just not viable with the current health crisis. The worry is that many of these teams will go out of business before the opportunity to return is viable. Just like many private businesses, we could also lose many sports teams.