Perils of Prediction



When Michael Vick looks at his team, his Eagles, that's what he sees. "When I look at our football team and what we have on paper, I think about when I was growing up and the great San Francisco 49er teams, the great Green Bay Packer teams, and the great Dallas Cowboy teams, how they just positioned themselves to compete and be one of the best teams out there," Vick said. "I think we have a chance to be that. I think we have a chance to develop a dynasty."

Yikes, the Eagles got totally pounded by the Giants in the last game of the season, ending with a record of 4-12, with the first three wins being at the beginning of the season. It makes the Michael Vick's quote from the this last summer even more suspect. Sure, there were injuries. More significantly and sorrowfully, Andy Reid's son died at training camp. Crystal balls have a way of shattering when life happens.

Michael Vick has been beat up enough this year, quite literally. So, I am not here to bash him more. He has become a better man because of his transgressions, so losing football games but winning his soul is far more important.  Yet, I think it is always wise to keep mum about predictions and projections. The Eagles believed their own press...their own paper. And expected other teams to do so also. Instead, they got their clocks cleaned week after week. To be fair, Vick did say "chance" which has now become "no chance." It looks like house-cleaning is coming to the Eagles nest and Vick might be one of the birds booted along with Reid.

Heck, it is only football. Really, it was a great day when I stopped worrying whether the Eagles won or lost. If the Eagles win, great. If not, who cares. A No-Fault fan. With 2013 around the corner, keep the prognostications to the groundhog. I predict that life, death, and taxes, will happen. James warns that to not boast about tomorrow. Seriously, we don't even know what is going to happen today.

James 4:14

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.      

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