One man may seem incompetent/ Another not make sense/
While others look like quite a waste/
Of company expense
There is a pretty basic belief, among all sports fandoms, in the idea of momentum. This idea expresses itself on the micro level ("He's heating up!" "He's on fire!" "Boomshakalaka!" etc.) and on the macro level ("Ohio State quarterbacks will always be bad in the NFL"), and it's fascinating to me because when it's a real thing that's true, momentum is so real that you can almost feel it, pulling at your soul like the ghost from Poltergeist as it reaches through the television and into your gut.