very high-dollar,
emotional leads to
bizarre behavior
Adapted from the article, NFL teams know the best way to draft, so why aren’t they doing it? by Alec Lewis in the Athletic (Apr 16, 2024).
Examining how NFL teams draft incoming College football players, Mr. Lewis writes:
“Is the coach in this situation 20 percent crazy? Is the offensive coordinator 40 percent crazy? Is the linebackers coach 60 percent crazy? Because they might be. They’re thinking in a way humans would think.”
The former NFL executive suggested the inherent irrationality drove him “a little crazy.”
“You have an environment in sports where there are very high-dollar decisions being made, and it’s simultaneously a very emotional playground in which to make those decisions,” Bornn said. “Those two things combined lead to bizarre behavior … which is sticky. Things happen where you might look back and say, ‘Why in the world do they do that?’”
I can understand that when multi multi million dollar deals and the multi multi million dollar impact that these decisions someone makes about how well some 22 year kid might play in the NFL NEXT YEAR can lead to bizarre behavior.
But forget football and millions of dollars, I can see how the decision to order breakfast at our local diner can lead to bizarre behavior.
For me, the price of breakfast is a high dollar decision.
For me, what I have for breakfast is an emotional decision.
As Garrison Keillor writes in his book, WLT: A Radio Romance, “It’s more important to make a very good cup of coffee in the morning and a very good piece-of toast than it is to worry about Josef Stalin, because I can do something about breakfast and I can’t do anything about Stalin, and I’m sure he’s having a wonderful breakfast.”
That I CAN do something about breakfast can make it into a very emotional decision!
And BOY HOWDY, does it lead to some bizarre behavior.
Thinking the way humans think, we might all be crazy.
So …..
I will have two eggs, sunny side up, hash browns, bacon AND sausage with pancakes on the side and whole wheat toast to dip in the yolks.
And one hour later, I will ask myself, Why in the world do I do that?
Bizarre behavior.
Those millions of dollars are just incidental.
No Haiku For You 