Some friends and I at the Mini-Expo
One of the baffling tendencies of humanity is to rank and sort comparable items for entertainment and organization. We like to place everything from best to worst, regardless if it’s brands, teams or people. But in reality, these rankings are essentially meaningless. Take sports polls for example. Football fans are obsessed with the AP Poll, Coaches Poll and BCS Computer Rankings because they determine who plays in what postseason bowl and which team is “better” than another team. But the truth is that any football team on any given weekend can beat any team, regardless if they’re ranked or not. When it comes time for the coin toss and the teams take the field, the number before a schools name is just that, a number – nothing less and certainly nothing more.
