NFL Draft Overload
Written by Josh Katz
Are you ready for some football? No. No I am not. It’s April. It’s baseball season dammit, and the way ESPN is shoving the 2010 “Prime Time” NFL Draft down our throats, you’d swear the season starts next week. Now I love football, do not get me wrong here. Even after a disgusting 2009 season for the New York Football Giants, I look forward to that first article in August about mini camp, a couple of Forrest Gump-like sound bites from Eli Manning and pondering whether or not to drop a hundred dollars on a swing-man jersey of a player who probably won’t produce. But like I said, it’s baseball season, the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs, and all you can find on ESPN these days is the insufferable Todd McShay and Mel Kiper Jr’s hairdoo discussing whether or not the Browns will trade up for Sam Bradford, Jimmy Clausen’s three-step drop and yada yada yada. All of this draft coverage has turned me off big time to the NFL. Let’s face it, is there ANYONE in this year’s draft that gets you excited? Anyone who is going to be a sure-fire stud? I just don’t see it. I mean do you care where Colt McCoy is going to play and if he changes his “Texas Twang” in the huddle? Nope. Is anyone ready to go out and buy a Dez Bryant jersey on Thursday night? Nope. Honestly, just suspend Rapelisberger, show me the schedule and let’s get on to bigger and better things, like the AL east race, NHL overtime games and Kevin Garnett power bombing anyone who tries to snag a rebound over him. Because right now, I’d rather watch Mets/Cubs or Monday Night Raw then hear another analysis of Tim Tebow’s throwing motion. Wake me up in August, Mr. Goodell.
