Sometimes, people mandate that they wear padding for safety, but everyone increasingly agrees that the padding does not protect the participants as much as we would like.Refs pick winners and losers, and if they pick the wrong winners and losers, that wrong.Afterwards, people with microphones inquire how it went.You cheer for the people from your geographical area who are wearing the same colors as you. You boo the people wearing different colors. After big wins or losses, you are convinced the world is over, but the next morning everything looks fundamentally the same, and you still have to show up at work.One difference between politics and football is that if you don know anything about football and keep yelling nonsensically at the people who do, someone will come along and politely ask you to leave the party.Others making picks for their former teams include Deion Sanders (Falcons) and Larry Little (Dolphins). Hayden and South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore. Hayden was