You hear it every year. The year that's about to end was the worst ever.
Or it was the best ever, the saddest ever or the weirdest ever. At the risk of making a prediction, we predict 2016 will be remembered as the best, worst, saddest, happiest, weirdest and most unforgettable year ever.
We will not predict that, however, because every other prediction made by the "mainstream media" turned out wrong in 2016.
Oh sure, somebody somewhere may have predicted the Cubs would win the World Series or Dak Prescott would win the Cowboys quarterback job or Cleveland would win a championship.
That person was quickly escorted to the loony bin with all those who were predicting Donald "Big Hands" Trump would show Hillary Clinton who really wears the pantsuits around here.
Not even Trump believed that would happen, at least until Vladimir Putin called him on Election Night and said the name "Hillary Clinton" had been replaced with "Urban Meyer" on all the ballots in Michigan.
Kidding!
The Russians didn't do that, Jim Harbaugh did. He was the year's No. 2 media troll behind Jerry Jones, who admitted he stoked the Prescott-Tony Romo quarterback controversy to keep people buzzing about the Cowboys.
It was almost as annoying as the 7.3 billion "My Pillow" commercials aired in 2016. When selecting items for the year's time capsule, the list would have to include:
The Cowboys' P.R. machine, Tim Tebow's bat, Colin Kaepernick's knee, Nick Saban's brain, Ryan Lochte's missing brain, media credibility and Florida's offense.
Oh wait, nobody can find those last two.
Regardless, when historians dig up the time capsule in 1,000 years, it's safe to predict they'll quickly re-bury it before the Zika mosquitoes escape and infect 3016 with whatever zany virus it was took over the world in 2016.
It all began innocently enough in ...
