Chris Dell | (TNS) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Perfection is an illusion. Just when we think it’s firmly in our grasp, it somehow evades us. However, as the late great Vince Lombardi said, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, then we can come close to catching excellence.
” This is never more true when it comes to our fantasy football drafts in 2024. If you’re reading this column in mid-August — before a single NFL regular season game has been played — then that probably means you’ll be participating in a fantasy draft with around 10 or so others sometime over the next two weeks. That probably also means that each of those 10 or so opponents you’re competing against will enter those drafts having some idea of the players they either love or hate.
Some will even think they have some genius “strategy” that they read in some three-months-old, now completely irrelevant fantasy magazine. It’s OK, we’ve all been there. Heck, I still even uphold my annual tradition of buying at least one fantasy mag, fresh off the racks at Barnes & Noble every fall, though I might not ever read a single page of it.
At this point, it’s all just for the vibes — and also to appease those ever-judgemental fantasy gods, of course. All kidding aside, there might be something more profound to that Lombardi quote after al.