The other day, I began to write a 2018 Los Angeles Rams season preview that morphed into about 5,000 words about the Vietnam War and the Iraq War and it was nonsense. But it got at the idea that there is a narrow band of success that defines modern efforts because of analysis oversaturation and the impossibility of defining the limits of what can be considered success in the modern era.
And that that’s part of what makes sports so satisfying is its singular marker of success.
A championship.
Now yes, there is a tribe of teams that, in all sincerity, is not operating toward a championship.