Does Gov. Holcomb’s executive order on masks preclude the playing of football, basketball and wrestling in Indiana?

By John Estridge

I’m just throwing this out there.

In reading Gov. Eric Holcomb’s executive order pertaining to masks, which goes into effect Monday, July 27, it has a list of exemptions from wearing a mask. In those exemptions, it mentions sports.

This is an exemption for exercising and/or engaging in sports.

“Any person while exercising or engaging in a sports activity and who can maintain six feet of social distancing from another person not in the same household”

I’m far from being a scholar, let alone a legal scholar, but reading this as a layman, and I don’t mean to belittle laymen, I would think those playing football, basketball and wrestling, to name three off the top of my head, would not fit this exemption. And I cannot think that anyone playing those sports would be able to breathe properly wearing a mask, especially football in the hot August/September temperatures.

Do others have any idea on this?