01-30-2017, 07:57 AM
Does this say more about the inability of sports "experts" to rank talent or about the folly of playing football? Regarding the former, thirty two times fifty four equals one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight NFL roster spots. It seems if you are in the top 100 you should be a lock for one of the top 1,728 spots. Yet a quick glance suggests the majority of the top 100 never made it to the NFL, and some never even got as close as a tryout. Regarding the latter, they say playing the lottery is poor people paying "the stupid tax" because it is such a poor financial choice. It seems playing football is a similar tax but rather than paying it with money you can't afford to "invest" you pay it with your only brain or your knees, things it also seems one can't afford to relinquish.
I was amazed at how few of the guys in the article I had heard of, and how many I had heard of who had no NFL career or a very brief one. I wasn't surprised that it made me like football a little less as many items have had that effect on me over the last few years.
Thanks to the OP for posting the article.
I was amazed at how few of the guys in the article I had heard of, and how many I had heard of who had no NFL career or a very brief one. I wasn't surprised that it made me like football a little less as many items have had that effect on me over the last few years.
Thanks to the OP for posting the article.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
