It's been a rough year. But at least sports fans will have Thursday, right?

For the first time in the hellscape that is 2020, a sports equinox is converging. What's a sports equinox? Well, it's when all four major sports — NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL — play on the same day. There have been 20 instances in recorded history, per FiveThirtyEight.

As MLB playoffs trickled deeper into the fall, there have been more equinoxes than ever. There's been one each of the last six years after occurring just three times from 2001 to 2010.

But Thursday is...