The tension. The upsets. The atmosphere. At this stage, you might even be missing the flat beer and over-priced food.
Although it might feel like longer, it's only just over a month since sport was, essentially, cancelled as part of the effort to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
But what if, in some magical corner of the sporting universe, everything had been quietly carrying on almost as normal - and not a single social distancing rule had been broken?
Well - we're here to tell you that this sport exists.
And its name is darts.
Darts' secret weapon right now is that to compete against someone, you don't need to be in the same room as them.
And this has meant that, pretty much since the lockdown started, players have still been able to face off against each other - and stream the whole thing to fans.
"Everyone just wants to carry on playing darts. I definitely do because everyone's noticing darts at the moment, so you just want to keep it going," Fallon Sherrock tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.
The 25-year-old made history last year by becoming the first woman to beat a man at the PDC World Championship.
Fallon has signed up to an online tournament called MODUS Icons of Darts that has already been running for two weeks and streams live for nine hours a day.
She's making her debut next week - and says it's only technical difficulties that mean she's taken this long to get started.
"I've been rushing to get my internet sorted in time," she laughs. "I've been asked by top players to play against them online, people like world number three Gerwyn Price, but I've just been sorting my internet out so I can play." - BBC
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