They scoffed at Columbus when he set sail to find the New World. Nobody thought the Wright Brothers would get their idea off the ground.
Closer to home, people thought Jimmy Hewitt was cuckoo for thinking the NBA would ever come to podunk Orlando.
Since I couldn't get in touch with Columbus or either Wright brother, I threw out another laughable, preposterous, call-the-sanitarium idea to our local dreamer/visionary.
The Orlando Raiders.
"I love it!" Hewitt said.
Before you list the 12,398 reasons it could never happen, let me explain. I'm not talking about the NFL's vagabond franchise making Orlando its permanent home.