Merlin’s Magic: Lilja Versus Brown Edition

Nostalgia is the idealized yearning for the past. It affects all of us to a degree. We tend to remember when we were right and tend to forget about when we were wrong, unless we were disastrously wrong. I have been thinking about that when the comparison of Colin Brown and Ryan Lilja occurred to me. Every year, teams try to place players that they feel have some potential on the practice squad. Occasionally, another team will swoop in and claim that player. Almost all of the time, the player never develops into a contributor and fans forget about it. However, there are [...]