Most sports observers have learned that it's usually a bad idea to spout definitive platitudes, because we've all been proven wrong likely more than once. For instance, saying team X, franchise Y or athlete Z will never win a championship, ostensibly because they've never done so before, has historically graded out as a fool's errand.

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