He should try to win every game. He's got to believe in his heart that he should win every game. If you don't believe in your heart that you're playing to win, you should be in another business.
-Vince Lombardi
"Suck for Luck" is a pathetic grassroots movement for fans of NFL teams that have not started the 2011 season all that well. These supposed fans want their teams to continue to fail to enhance their chances of drafting Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. I don't get it. One year the fans dread the prospect of their team losing a game. The next year they get upset when their team wins a game. Losing so that you can draft a player that may or may not do a thing in the league is a recipe for disaster. The draft shouldn't even be a thought until a team plays their last game. Andrew Luck will most likely be a fantastic player in the league. Jamarcus Russell was supposed to be a fantastic player in the league. Oakland Raider fans were once ecstatic with his selection. It seems shocking now but there was a debate in 1998 over the pro potential of Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf. Even though Manning won that debate in Indianapolis most felt that San Diego got a nice consolation in Ryan Leaf. Luck is more like Manning than Russell or Leaf. But the draft is still a crapshoot at best. No player is worth dumping a season. It's not worth the risk. Coaches sometimes get only one shot at a head job. Losing on purpose is a good way to end that one shot. An NFL playing career is far too brief to toss away even one season. If the people that are actually on the field have little to gain from giving up, why would the fans even give it a thought. As a fan, I can't even imagine hoping for my team to lose. I can't even imagine ever again cheering for a team that gives up on a season.
There are Vikings fans that seriously believe that the future of the team rests on being in position to draft Andrew Luck. With Luck, the Vikings will win Super Bowls. There are far too many great quarterbacks that have never won a championship to toss out this thought. Great teams win championships. Great quarterbacks do not guarantee a thing. With Luck, the Vikings will get that new stadium. Insuring their continued presence in Minnesota. I don't think that a team that looks to lose deserves a stadium. A fan that hopes for losses should probably find something better to do. I'm really at a loss to understand how losing benefits anybody. The Vikings, or any team, would lose far more than a game if they went into them with anything but honest intentions. Everybody has to trust what takes place on the field. Giving up is never an option. Andrew Luck probably wouldn't even want to join a team that treats the games so lightly.
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