Every season is unpredictable. It is like an unscripted weekly soap opera with overdramatized triumphs and tragedies that demands our attention. This is why the NFL has grown into the media giant that it is, and why it is one of the most popular weekly episodic television programs in the history of our country.
Heading into a new season fills every one of the NFL's thirty-two teams and their fan bases with hope. After all, the NFL is a league that in the business of selling hope. Hope that your team can go from worst to first. Hope that your first round draft pick will be a franchise player.