Don't OBSESS over the future

What are your thoughts on the future? Do you consider it a "done deal"? Do you think you're screwed, one way or another? Do you think you're headed UP, one way or another? Have you surrendered it to a Higher Power?

Here are my thoughts as we stand here today in March of 2025 - early days of spring. A couple of prominent sports events can guide us as we consider the future.

One: The upcoming National Football League draft, scheduled to happen in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The shindig begins on Thursday, April 24. My hometown team, the Tennessee Titans, is currently scheduled to pick first.

Second: The ongoing March Madness - the bracket of sixty-eight that will soon be cut to sixteen as you are reading this on March 23 or thereafter.

Should we consider the future? I say "YES". We should always consider the days, years, and months yet to happen. However, although you prepare for them, realize that they may or may not be reality. 

Here is the upshot, gentlemen: How many "mock drafts" have you seen since the conclusion of Super Bowl LIX (and perhaps before the game was even played)?

The NFL is obsessed over the future. Our national obsession for football feeds right into the obsession for the NFL.

On another front, have y'all considered the Big Bracket and the "bracketology" that proceeded it? Joe Lunardi, analyst for ESPN (and probably for many others, too) probably makes his money for the year as the selections for the "Big Dance" approach.

Here's the kicker, gentlemen: Once the NFL draft begins, the mock drafts will be immediately and forever irrelevant.

Once Selection Sunday happens, all of Joe Lunardi's analysis is scooted to the rear view mirror.

I often think that we are so obsessed with the future that we ignore the present (or the past, which is the only thing that we can be assured of).

The National Football League 2025 Draft and the NCAA Division One bracket of 68 will happen. The NFL Draft comes next month. March Madness is moving forward as I write this article. All of the predictions, odds, and prognostications will be cast aside as the actual events actually occur.

Just curious: Can you name the last three Super Bowl champions? How about the last three NCAA Division One March Madness champions?

Or are you already trying to predict the same champions for the next three years?

More to come soon. 

James A. Rose, Publisher