Chuck Klosterman

Now they lose their quarterback.

You know, it's like I think that what's going to happen is it's going to be more like I mean, one of the reasons the NFL is so successful as the massive creation is because every six or seven or eight years, your team should be good.

The whole thing is designed for that.

Through the draft, through the parody, through all the salary cap, all those things.

If you follow a football team for 40 years, there should be at least three or four times when you're in contention for a Super Bowl.

Unless you're the Jets.

Unless you're the Jets.

Because they've just done everything wrong.

And yet it still is not unfathomable to imagine the Jets being good in three years.

It could happen.

That could happen.

I mean, that's an interesting chapter in the book because the amount of football players named in that essay- You had eight goats.

I think might be more than in any other chapter in the entire book, the number of things about football I discuss.

And yet-

Ideologically, it's kind of like just about the idea of how greatness is measured.

And I think that the modern person thinks about greatness for the most part incorrectly in the sense that

Whoever is the greatest player in the present, in theory, is the greatest player of all time because of the way training changes and nutrition changes.

It's like cars.

So when you're talking about the greatness of anything, and there are exceptions, and I'm sure you're going to pick some up as soon as I say this, but...

When I'm thinking, if someone asked me like, what is the greatest whatever in anything, any subject, what I'm trying to do is think of what is the earliest incarnation of greatness that's still present in the modern version.