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What happened? Why do you say that it's the worst? Really wanted to go to the one in Detroit but life happened. Really hope I can go to the one in Green Bay next year. I've always wanted to see Lambeau Field.
It was in Arlington, there's nothing around Jerryworld, the whole experience was meh.
It was in Arlington, there's nothing around Jerryworld, the whole experience was meh.
That whole area is a sea of parking lots because dumb, knuckle-dragging Arlington has repeatedly rejected mass transit. So now you have a city of 400,000 with no public transportation. It's the largest transit desert in the US.
Denver would be an awesome host city for an NFL Draft. It could snow or it could be 70 degrees.
Somebody on TV said the first round of the draft had more viewers than all but one regular season college game last season, and more than any world series game. The draft has gone WAAAY beyond hardcore fans.
It’s marketing to put it on prime time. No way does it get those ratings if the draft was like the old days of putting all the rounds on a Saturday and Sunday. Gotta give it to the nfl. Their decisions to expand their product the last 20 years has been Uber successful. Really worldwide? Only the EPL has been as proactive out of all sport leagues around the world.
Also teams' immediate futures are heavily about how well they draft. The potential immediate impact is unique in the major leagues outside the highest NBA picks. Baseball, soccer, hockey, and most NBA teams get relatively few immediate starters from their drafts. This is doubly true since their wages are predetermined (a relatively new thing) instead of negotiated, which means they no longer hold out and are fully invested in off-season and pre-season so they can have immediate impact.
But absolutely the NFL has masterfully marketed their off-season periods, keeping enough fans interested in every step to make them ratings grabbers year-round. Player cuts, coach fires/hires, free agent signings, pre-draft player analysis, draft, off-season workouts, rookie camp, mini-camp, camp, preseason games, the soap opera along the way... These events are about anticipating, predicting, and debating the upcoming season(s), and many fans seem to get nearly as excited about that as they are about actual games.
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