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Welcome back to $100,000 Pyramid! You're in the final circle now, and the timer will begin when your partner starts giving clues. Confidently, he gives you a nod and begins: construction at New Cabell Hall, a bike with two flat tires, Student Council. Exuberantly you scream, "Things more useful than the NFL Combine!" and wait for the confetti to fall knowing you've just won the grand prize.

Yeah, that's right - I said it. Call it sacrilege if you must, but the truth must be told. The NFL Combine is plain dumb. I don't care how badly ESPN tries to cram it down my throat, the Combine is a waste of time and we'd all be better off without it.

The only thing worse than the Combine itself is the number of otherwise intelligent people who put it on a pedestal. The tests are silly and the results are largely unrepresentative. So why is it such a big deal?

In case you don't believe me, let's take a closer look at two of the drills which supposedly tell the world whether or not a particular collegiate football player will be a star on Sundays. The most important drill at the Combine is without question the 40-yard dash. The point of this drill, as is obvious by the name, is to run 120 feet as fast as you can in your underwear. Because, you know, that's something you do frequently in actual games of football.

I know there's a lot of running in football, but the dash isn't representative of how you actually run in games. Besides the underwear part - and as someone who has played the game, let me tell you, all