Making too much of history can be, at times, as dangerous as failing to heed its warnings.
That is to say: Presuming that something will happen again just because it has happened before is fraught with peril — just as is is believing that something that has never happened before will continue to stay dormant.
Framed within the context of what Vikings GM Rick Spielman had to say about wide receiver Stefon Diggs at the Scouting Combine on Tuesday, this provides some warning not to be to carried away about the past informing the future.
Yet still: Spielman’s money quote, whereby he told reporters that “there’s no reason to anticipate [Diggs] is not going to be a Minnesota Viking,” is complicated by an immediate rebuttal.