Habits in human beings are easily understood. DNA, the kludgey nature of the human brain, and the natural aversion to try something as one grows older all play a part.
With sports teams, though, I do not understand. Why do some (metaphorical) old dogs refuse to learn new tricks? The current example on my mind is, of course, my beloved football team, the Chicago Bears. The Bears have, to put it mildly, a substandard passing offence. One might suspect this is easily fixed – throw some money, hire some talent and all is forgiven. Indeed, the Bears have tried this a few times. But they haven’t had a decent passing offense since the days of Sid Luckman, apparently the only QB in his era to understand the forward pass. And they can’t seem to buy one for love or money.
Several teams, spanning multiple sports, develop (well deserved) reputations over decades for certain inabilities. This is of course well beyond the career of any official, team member or such. For examples, I submit, in no particular order- Indian cricket (fast bowling), South African Cricket (performing at key moments in important games, i.e. not choking), Baltimore Ravens (passing offense), Italian soccer (offense, or so i’m told). [One can develop positive reputations too, I’m just not in a sunny mood since the Halas Trophy went north of Chicago]
So, to summarize, why?*
*With corporations, I can imagine brand image or some other suitably amorphous Bschool concept playing a role. But even there the reasoning is shaky in some cases.
Hey, at least your team made it into the post season. I’m forever miserable as a die-hard Bills fan!
Chicago (econ) has lacked good development economists. They can throw money at talent, but talent will not go because talent needs other development economists to work with to show off even more talent. But I’ll go. I can be their Sid Luckman.
Mahrin- I dunno about that. At least you know what you’re getting and can check out early. I’m reminded of this Onion headline “Lou Pinella lauded for not getting anyone’s hopes up this year” last year when the cubs went like .400 for the year and didn’t make it to the post season a year after they led the league in the regular season and then got swept at home in the first round of the post season.
Wish the Bills management would put it so bluntly as the Onion does. Checking out early every year is tiresome. But hey – we’ve got the third pick in the draft. Maybe next season will be our year!
– The Eternal Optimist
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