Rohr has discovered one other constructive. He and his spouse have a younger son who’s simply greater than 1 12 months previous. Immediately highway journeys have been changed with high quality household time.

“That is been the silver lining in all this,” Rohr mentioned.

Each males are hoping for a return to sports activities sooner fairly than later. Partly to have the ability to get again to work, partly to have an enormous a part of their lives to sit up for once more.

“If I needed to peg it, I would must say in some unspecified time in the future this summer season we’ll get again to regular. That is type of what I am dangling on the market as a end line for all this,” Rohr mentioned. “As a result of I do know in my head if it is simply indefinite — ‘Hey, it’ll be an extended, ling time earlier than we’ve got sports activities as we have recognized them come again’ — I do not know the way I might take care of that. That might damage, and damage so much.”

Whereas it stays to be seen simply what school soccer will appear like a number of months from now, the possibility to get again to Memorial Stadium has each males considering constructive.

“I am a cockeyed optimist, so I am nonetheless holding out hope that we’ll have a school soccer season within the fall, and it’ll be performed in entrance of followers, and persons are going to have the ability to come to tailgate and do all their regular stuff,” Sharpe mentioned. 

“Which may be a pipe dream at this cut-off date. However for now I will grasp on to that and hope that is the best way it performs out.”