The dominoes, ultimately, only fall once.
We lack the power to turn back time and rewrite history. So all we are left with are the abilities to wonder and speculate about how things might have turned out had different decisions been made, how one fallen domino might have led to the next.
But that doesn't stop us. In fact, the inability to change history only deepens our desire to re-imagine it, for better or worse.
Star Tribune Vikings beat writer Ben Goessling and I played a version of that what-if game on Friday's Daily Delivery podcast.