Kirk Herbstreit's Latest Comments on NFL and College Football Seasons Starting on Time Should Terrify Fans

To some extent, we are all being affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. As days go by and the number of cases in the United States continues to skyrocket, the current hiatus of major sports leagues -- you'd have to think -- gets postponed even further.

The NFL and NCAA are at an advantage in that their seasons don't start for another few months, and fans have been holding out hope that those campaigns wouldn't be impacted by COVID-19.

According to ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit, however, that is a pipe dream.

"From what I understand, people that I listen to, you're 12 to 18 months from a vaccine," Herbstreit said on ESPN radio on Thursday night. "I don't know how you let these guys go into locker rooms and let stadiums be filled up and how you can play ball. I just don't know how you can do it with the optics of it. As much as I hate to say it, I think we're scratching the surface of where this thing's gonna go."

Herbstreit continued to assert that, if he was the NFL commissioner or NCAA president, he'd shut it down as soon as possible.

Football fans should be mortified by Herbstreit's claims, which aren't at all reactionary or scorching.

Of course the College GameDay host would love to inject some optimism into the hearts of fans, but his analysis is simply based on the timetable (or lack thereof) he's been provided with in terms of when the curve of this pandemic will begin to flatten, or when the disease will be eliminated entirely.

Is anybody else all set on 2020? We've had enough.