There’s this old Sylvia Plath quote that says if you expect nothing from anybody, you are never disappointed.
If the inverse of that is true, if you expect everything from somebody, you’re sure to be disappointed.
And that brings us to the incomparable proposition for Arch Manning. The bar for this 21-year-old quarterback with two career starts to his name (neither start occurred against a competent team) has been set so impossibly high, he’d need to be Superman in a football uniform to meet the hopelessly high expectations.
Or, alternatively, just be a Manning. That’d probably work, too.
Therein lies the rub. If this quarterback possessed any other surname, we’d all find it more than a tad ridiculous that the preseason Heisman Trophy front-runner has thrown all of 95 passes in his career, and more than a tad hyperbolic when prominent ESPN commentator Paul Finebaum dubbed Manning the greatest thing since Tim Tebow.
