The worst thing that can happen in sports is predictability. There’s a malaise that falls over a league when there’s such a clear delineation between the good and bad that the best we can do is pray for an upset, before fatalistically accepting that the Dodgers will win another World Series. It saps the joy out of contest and makes everything regress to the point where a season might as well be scripted television, and hell, there are entire message boards of conspiracy theorists who already think sports are predetermined.
This year in the NFL has been buck wild. It’s infuriating, and frustrating, with nothing really making sense. It rocks.
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