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LAS VEGAS — What’s luck, what’s skill, all merges to oneness, Virgil wrote more than 2,000 years ago. Nothing is as obnoxious, F. Scott Fitzgerald penned in 1938, as other people’s luck.
According to Hunter S. Thompson, luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Especially when a football zebra tosses a flag when nothing’s there or disregards a blatant face-mask grab that turns a tailback’s coconut 180 degrees.
Each happened within 24 hours of each other last weekend, the former occurring late in the Lions’ tilt Sunday night in Philadelphia.