Two “starter” thoughts to kick things off ...
One. If you missed the last 12 Thoughts entry (which published later than usual), I announced that the column was taking a short break. Turns out that I’m not all that good at taking time off. I am, however, crunched for time (like the Seahawks with the short week) so this will be sort of a 12 Thoughts LITE(ish).
Two. A 17-week season isn’t evenly-divisible by 4 so we can no longer butcher the idea of the “quarter pole” for a season being the 4th game when the term “quarter pole” actually means there’s a quarter of a mile left in the race.