Completely valid or not, in NFL recruitment the 40-yard-dash is here to stay.  Why 40 even?  Who knows, but -- " 'It's become a universal way of doing things,' says Gil Brandt, the long-time personnel man for the Cowboys.  'It's like zip codes and postal mailings and area codes.  It's a part of life.' "   No sense holding still.    news
  
Principle in the type:  You can't be that kid standing at the top of the
waterslide, overthinking it.  You have to
go down the chute.  (And I'm from a
generation where a lot of people died on waterslides, so this was an important
lesson for me to learn.) ...it will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated."   Tina Fey