Top 25 Lists rumbled past, talk on the Fan Forum turned to the topic of objectivity . Living as we do in a society strangled by science and not merely blinded by it it is unsurprising that football fans would want their piece of the science pie.
Science envy is a strong persuader.
But football fans should, ultimately, know better. The category exhibits a bizarre logical behavior. Its title suggests that it is an acknowledgement that predicting isn t a science, but the category is nevertheless treated as if it were something as easily predictable, or as easy to factor into a prediction, as who has the best o-line or the best secondary. But predicting who has the best o-line and who has the best secondary is not generally easy. Fans treat it as if it were, treat it as if it were merely a function of heights, weights, forty-times and bench presses, and so on.