Leave it to that whiney, rich, spoiled, avaricious Phil Mickelson to come to our sports defense.

In case you missed it, Mickelson told folks via Twitter this week that a potential match-play rematch with everyone’s bogus hero Tiger Woods could be imminent.

“Working on it” Mickelson tweeted.

Isn’t that grand? He and Tiger get to make more millions as the sports-consuming public, which is starved beyond recognition right now, will certainly gobble this biscuit up.

The hook this time, according to Pro Football Talk, would be that each would drag a partner into the fray – one with Tom Brady and the other with Peyton Manning

potentially.

As much as I hate to type the next five words: Good for Phil … and Tiger.

Wow.

That sentence was tougher to type than the game story I wrote for Super Bowl XLII (Giants over Patriots I).

It is time that sports help us all fight off the ropes and actually show some resilience, as a nation and world.

Seriously, aren’t we all tired of taking our medicine, figuratively of course?

In this case, a live, televised golf match is not much, but it is a start.

This coronavirus has made us all respect the precious gift of life. If you are not focused on social distancing and respecting all that it takes to beat this thing down, you simply aren’t human.

But as we hunker down, self-quarantine and surrender all that has made our lives so enjoyable, it is sports that will help return sanity to the equation.

Phil, Tiger, Peyton and Tommy Six Rings could be trail blazers.

You hope that the rest of the sports entrepreneurial types would soon follow that lead.

Look, hockey and hoops returning are long shots at best. Baseball? It’s not looking great. And some football folks are already hitting the panic button. There is a chance … well, I don’t even want to think about that.

Sports like golf, tennis, auto racing … it is time for them to help us get going again.

The flipping PGA Tour absolutely panicked, postponing everything in sight and refusing to entertain the idea of tournaments without fans.

Golf could save us all. I have said it about local courses, and now, I’m talking about the Tour.

Do you think these spoiled country club cats care about society and its sanity? Show us.

Tennis could do similar work for us all. I’m not talking about giant tournaments like Wimbledon. But honestly, a little creativity and some made-for-TV events could not only provide entertainment, it could help the players pick up cash.

What about pro boxing and UFC? Control the combatants and their people heading into the bouts and you too could be one of the few actual games in town.

NASCAR? Sure.

All without fans in the stands but with giant TV audiences thoroughly flustered with binging everything in near sight and craving real competition of any kind.

Who knows what the future holds?

I’m not sure even that the experts do.

South Korea, once doomed, seemed to grasp a hold of this thing and avert utter disaster.

We’ve gone from a “hoax” to the President proclaiming that he and his task force will have saved millions if we can hold our death toll to 100 or 200 thousand.

Even the one voice everyone seems to trust, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is hinting at a return in the fall.

We have to find a way to safely progress. These low-to-no risk sports might be the first step.

I just can’t believe it took opportunistic chumps like Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods to push us on to the correct path.

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