7) A Chance To Relive The College Football Season
This is a big reason that I watch. I grew up in Memphis, and at the time, there was no NFL team for hundreds and hundreds of miles around. I became a far bigger fan of college football than pro football because of this. The NFL draft is basically one big college football highlight show and I absolutely love college football highlight shows. Additionally, it’s a chance to see if anyone picks up your favorite player from the old’ alma mater. Strangely enough, my Central Michigan Chippewas are expected to have a first round choice this year (offensive lineman Joe Staley). Now I have to watch.
8) Mel Kiper Jr.’s Hair
That stuff is immovable. Perfectly coiffed. I think it’s some kind of Teflon or possibly even Kevlar. He will use it in the art of battle as well. Ask Bill Polian.
9) Random References to Forgotten '70s Hits
Nobody is safe from a crappy Chris Berman nickname. There are untold thousands of songs in the back catalogues of Three Dog Night, Foghat, and Electric Light Orchestra that have yet to be connected to a football player born fifteen years after the band’s heyday. Be very afraid, C.J. Ah You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet.
10) There Is No Escape
Cthulu has you, my friends. The draft will be on every version of ESPN and will be talked about on every sports radio station there is all weekend long. Nothing else will exist. At least not until the Red Sox and Yankees start up again this weekend. Then the draft won’t exist and we’ll instead be reminded of the only two baseball teams that exist in the whole wide world. And you wouldn't want it any other way.
Article comments
1 - T. Michael Testi
Nice take! Jerkwheat. It kind of makes Baseball seem like a speed event; golf like a race!
But yeah, it'll be on between mowin the yard, washing the car, skinin the cat. It'll be on.
For me it is the begining of the fantasy football season. So gotta watch!
T.
2 - Matthew T. Sussman
11) Catching the ticker two spots after the one you're curious about, and watching it crawl across the screen a few cycles until it gets back to the one you missed.
3 - Justene
One is allowed to do other stuff during the draft? Hmm. Never knew that. I am pretty sure that remaining glued to the chair for the entire frickin' weekend convinces my husband that I am the best wife in the world for another year.
I also watch the Scouting Combine. Every year.
4 - Bob
Correction.........Aaron Rodgers went 24th.....not 22nd..................
5 - Jerkwheat
d'oh!
on the plus side, the extra two spots he had to wait allowed the counselors to talk Rodgers off of the ledge
6 - Vince Mullins
Don't forget 12) Berman tipping the pick of the Buffalo Bills, right before they circle the wagons...
7 - Jimmy CrackCorn
Nice take on the draft I especially enjoyed your jabs at the clothing worn by soon to be young black millionaires. Everytime I watch a black athlete who's in a suit I say to myself "Where did you find that suit?" I mean, who designs them, who makes them and who sells them? I've never seen those crappy suits in a store, I guess they are ghetto-only production. There are sweatshops in harlem I guess, not just in Chinatown.
Re: Eli, I agree with you re: weather and women but remember the Chargers, like all San Diego teams, are LOSERS, and prob always will be. He wanted to go to a solid organization with a chance to win.
Oh, and Tiki Barbeer for a 2+ year stretch outperformed LT and every other running back in the NFL in just about every statistical category except touchdowns. Yards rushing, YPR, catches, YPC, 100 yard games, 20+ yard runs, etc.
Look it up.
It wouldn't hurt to tone down the anti-NYC bias.The fact that Tiki's performances were downplayed throughout his career is proof that East Coast bias, at least whem it comes to sports, is dying if not dead.