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I Can't Escape The NFL Draft

 

Published 4/19/2009 by Nikolai W at Bleacher Report - NFL

With the NBA and NHL playoffs, the start of the baseball season, and the Manny Pacquiao versus Ricky Hatton fight on May 2, it's a great time to be a sports fan.  But the one sporting event I could really care less about is the one that I have to hear the most about, the NFL Draft. The overbearing hype machine called the NFL draft has been in full swing for weeks now. In no other sport is there so much hype in building up to a sport's amateur draft. It seems almost bigger than the Super Bowl. The ESPN channels are saturated with hours of draft analysis. I should be hearing about D-Wade and King James, not Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez. I should be hearing about the Detroit Red Wings trying to repeat as Stanley Cup Champion's, not the Detroit Lions and the pick that can turn around a horrible franchise. ESPN's two NFL draft guru's, Todd McShay and Mel Kiper, wait the entire year for only these few weeks ... (link)

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