Kurt Warner for Super Bowl MVP? Not According to the Man of La Mancha

One of my favorite words is quixotic.  It's not something that accurately applies to me, but sometimes I wish it did.  It embodies a kind of noble determination and sad valor that I can respect.  The irony is also appealing since I always thought Don Quixote was more a buffoon than anything else. Plus, it looks cool and sounds even cooler. So I don't mind admitting that, on occasion, I tilt at one windmill in particular:  the importance of winning over any other achievement in sports. I've done it several other times, but restricted my argument to Major League Baseball (once here and another time here ).  In my opinion, baseball is the most vulnerable major team sport to an attack in favor of personal stats/achievements as the appropriate measure of a player's greatness.  Since it's a team game assembled from individual performances, I can see dismissing whether or not his teams were winners.  I just strongly disagree. And that goes double for the ... (link)