Want to keep sports interesting? Redraft every year

	Wouldn't things be more exciting if every NFL team had a chance to draft Brett Favre? Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

I just can't watch the new-look NHL, and not just because I bear a grudge against the Outdoor Life Network for not airing my home-video footage of me deer hunting. As a casual fan, I still have no idea who plays for what team after the massive reshuffling following the lockout. If I want to turn on a game to make a hilarious pun, I don't even know what team's jersey Ron Tugnutt is wearing.

However, it seems like all the player movement in the offseason really led to a restructuring of the league's competitive balance, and every league wants parity. Which led me to a radical idea: the four major professional sports leagues should completely redraft their teams each season.

Yes, this is the most indefensible position since point forward. Now, let me defend it.

Sure, it would make it tougher to follow individual players, but "maybe next year" would actually mean something. When Royals fans say that they have hope for the next season, what they really mean is "Maybe when George Brett has a grandson old enough to make a run at .400, we can win 88 games and the wild card." If the leagues redrafted, every team could have a theoretically equal chance of winning each year. No more Blackhawks-style rebuilding that never ends.

How much fun would that be? If your team is truly awful this year, who cares? They could make a run next year. Unless your team is the Clippers. They'd still be mathematically out of the running two games into the season. (Don't tell me they're going to make the playoffs this year. If any franchise is capable of a 35-game losing streak to finish the season, it's the Clips.)

Here in America, the birthplace of democracy, we could really give every fan an equal chance to relish the thrill of victory and agony of defeat. Imagine the electricity in the Ohio air when the Columbus Blue Jackets win the 2007 Stanley Cup. Visualize a world where every child gets the opportunity to have their November ruined by a season-ending injury to Grant Hill. Dread the prospect of Brett Favre throwing into triple coverage for your hometown team next season.

Plus, the draft strategies would be priceless. A team with a low pick in the draft might resort to risky, inventive moves to try to get an edge, like running a five-guard offense, turning Lamar Odom into a point forward, or hiring Mike Montgomery as coach. In the NBA, someone would certainly draft Darko Milicic each year on the argument that "you can't teach height," only to learn that you can't teach talent, either. Imagine how much better that would help Joe Dumars sleep at night.

Of course, the leagues would seemingly lose out on their cash cow of selling replica jerseys, right? Quite the opposite; every jersey would become an ultra-stylish throwback after just one season. No more throwing your Wes Unseld jersey in the closet with your leisure suit and waiting thirty years for it to come back into fashion; your Ray Lewis Texans jersey will be the hottest item in your wardrobe by next year.

This system would put many of our silliest sports debates to be once and for all. With a team having a roughly 0.1 percent chance of winning two titles in a row, there would be no more dynasty talk. Will this be the year Mike Sweeney finally gets traded? Who cares? He's leaving town in four months anyway.

I realize there's no way this plan could happen. The owners would hate losing good players. The players would hate the constant moving, and their agents would lose all negotiating leverage over teams, which would mean no more Scott Boras or Drew Rosenhaus. On second thought, this idea might be worth a try.