Who is the greatest of all time and who belongs on a copycat Mount Rushmore? Neither discussion will ever be definitively answered. For each fan who swears Brady is the GOAT, there are plenty of disagreeing voices. There will never be enough consensus, C-4, permission, or patience to carve away another mountainside like Rushmore.
The consensus is probably the toughest to wrangle. Dynamite is relatively cheap. Permission can be bribed and as long as there is time there will be time. Before the preliminary drawings are completed new arguments about whom they should depict will be raging. I’d love to have the rights to production of the architectural presentation because I would never run out of high paying billable hours.
Right now, folks on the Oregon Duck Rivals site are hashing around names of whom should be included, first by position, on each side of the line of scrimmage, and final who is really hiding deep in the rocks that form the hill. Funny thing is that something is clearly missing but I’m not sure anyone senses it.
If the arguments were centered around Tuscaloosa, Columbus, Austin, or even South Bend there is a slim, very slim, chance you might complete the project in a lifetime. I’d still like those billing hours and the construction, or is it destruction, contracts. After all there is a long list of great teams in the school histories.
In Eugene, there has never been a great team. The best candidates don’t crack the ceiling at those schools. To make the grade there have to be players who drive the machines. Oregon may have already seen some of them who would belong in the final four, but maybe not. They are the only team, in my opinion with a current shot to join party who has never had an invitation, before.
Can Kenyon Sadiq find a spot? We haven’t seen enough to know yet. Can one of the wide receivers glow brightly enough to be one of those best ever stars? We haven’t seen enough to know yet. Maybe there will be a new definition for running back we have never seen or someone on the other side of the ball will win our hearts forever. As proud as we are of what we’ve known, I’m not sure we’ve seen any of the positional goats, yet. We just haven’t seen enough.
On the other hand it just might make the off season more exciting in Oregon than in those other places. Their chances of seeing greater superlative stars dim in light of our possible starbursts. We’re kids in a room full of adults who’ve ‘seen it all’. Our hopes for more haven’t been dashed yet. Life, football life, is bound to be more exciting for us and I am glad of it.