re: How realistic is the idea of playing a game to a 1/4 capacity stadium?

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So long as State public health departments deem this to still be a threat, it’s going to remain an issue for schools and athletic departments looking to avoid lawsuits.

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Not at all. Is there a threat of getting a fractured eye socket from being hit by a foul ball if you sit down the third baseline at an MLB game? Contracting COVID will become a standard assumed risk when you go to a ball game, concert, etc. The ticket you buy will have the language clearly worded in contract.

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Player and fan welfare is important not just for PR reasons but for legal reasons as well.

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This is your takeaway? PR and liability?
How about the actual threat to the general health of the populace?
This is not the flu! In less than three months nearly 100,000 persons have lost their lives due to COVID. Imagine what it would have been without social distancing, shelter in place orders. Not to mention how much more devastating this would have been to the economy and the misery that would cause.
Football games and attendance have little importance in the overall context of pandemic.
Whether we like it or not, the football season and virtually every aspect of our daily lives will be dictated by COVID and the effectiveness of containment measures until effective treatment or vaccines are widely available. You can't spin it any other way.
It's not about liability or PR.
And we will crying because of ignorant, self serving statements like this poster:

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by september we'll be looking back on these types of articles and laughing and the dems will be trying to shift the narrative to trump over reacted.

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No one will look at the carnage and be laughing. No one will ever claim that Trump overreacted. He will forever be known as a poor leader who sat on his fat arse and worried more about his reelection than the good of the nation.