If Westerners expect Tibetans to be steeped in mysticism and otherworldliness, the Dorjee-Norbu team wreck the mold.
David Tyree, a sixth-round pick, has become a special teams wrecking ball, and cornerback Frank Walker, a fellow sixth-rounder, is suddenly a key player.
Train (and team) wrecks are impossible to ignore, but a 4-12 season would be a forgettable footnote to wherever Geno Smith and the Jets wind up.
Instead of the meek, afraid-to-make-a-mistake team who have wrecked much of their season in the last three months, this was a different Chelsea.
Even those who hate him, or have seen their own team's hopes wrecked by his relentless quest for supremacy, have had their supporting lives defined by his achievements.
Webber, Vettel's team-mate, had wrecked his outside chance of overhauling Alonso when he could qualify his Red Bull no higher than fifth on Saturday evening, and yesterday an early pit stop put him, too, in among the midfield runners and unable to extricate himself.
Although Artest wrecked the team he built, Walsh still speaks of him fondly, and even roots for him.
Meanwhile France president Nicolas Sarkozy, has asked his sports minister Roselyne Bachelot to meet with the key people involved in the bitter national team row which has wrecked their World Cup chances.
Considering it was the shock of Newcastle's triumph at Highbury back in December that kick-started Arsenal's chase for honours, how ironic that they should thank Bobby Robson's team by subsequently wrecking their season.
Some team executives talk of the cap as if it is a living thing, a beast than can wreck teams like a giant sea squid in a Jules Verne novel, or an angel that can deliver them from last place and empty stadiums.
