- Banned
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Listen to me you scumbags.
Anyone with an iota of football knowledge knows the difference between hard-earned success and pathetic charity.
They know when victory is the result of hard work and skill and when it all comes down to a fluke of timing.
They know when a team has really earned a flag and when a side has coasted to success on the back of a compromised competition.
For twenty years the draft existed to even the competition. Right now the draft is working. The comp is unpredictable as the cycle forces old teams to bottom out and injects fresh talent into young up-and-comers.
But for a time, it didn't. For a three-year period in the early-to-mid parts of the decade, the draft was rogered to pimp out new teams and it ripped up the integrity of the comp.
When history looks back on that period, those flags will mean nothing. They will likely be stripped from the books. A dark and shameful asterisk will hang over them for all time.
We will look back at 2012 as a hard-earned victory and 2016 as the herald of something special.
Everything else will bring laughter and scorn.
And those supporters will look back and nod sagely, knowing they willingly and happily ate shit for an entire era - one that immediately brought irrelevancy as soon as the comp was rebalanced.
Anyone with an iota of football knowledge knows the difference between hard-earned success and pathetic charity.
They know when victory is the result of hard work and skill and when it all comes down to a fluke of timing.
They know when a team has really earned a flag and when a side has coasted to success on the back of a compromised competition.
For twenty years the draft existed to even the competition. Right now the draft is working. The comp is unpredictable as the cycle forces old teams to bottom out and injects fresh talent into young up-and-comers.
But for a time, it didn't. For a three-year period in the early-to-mid parts of the decade, the draft was rogered to pimp out new teams and it ripped up the integrity of the comp.
When history looks back on that period, those flags will mean nothing. They will likely be stripped from the books. A dark and shameful asterisk will hang over them for all time.
We will look back at 2012 as a hard-earned victory and 2016 as the herald of something special.
Everything else will bring laughter and scorn.
And those supporters will look back and nod sagely, knowing they willingly and happily ate shit for an entire era - one that immediately brought irrelevancy as soon as the comp was rebalanced.
