The Any Given Sunday adage is a metaphor of logic deception. Football is a game of strategy; chess played with living, breathing pieces on a board that’s more battle than field. Each team devises a plan to defeat their opponent week in and week out while those who bear witness calculate the odds and make predictions of who will win and who will lose.
The problem is, all the statistics, measurables and historical data are meaningless come game time.
Teams that should easily win based on available data often lose.
Teams that shouldn’t win, do.
It’s said more games are lost than won, i.