NFL announces 2015 Draft Dates
The NFL entry draft has become a huge event on the NFL calendar, even if that date keeps changing.
What once started with the commissioner handwriting the picks on a blackboard with chalk, as demonstrated below by Pete Rozelle.
Has evolved into the such an over produced spectacle that it is covered live by two different television channels, ESPN and the NFL Network, with the first round now being on Thursday in primetime.
The NFL draft will even have a new venue in 2015. The event which has been in New York City, at the famed Radio City Music Hall, will likely end up in Los Angeles. The NFL is desperate to re-establish themselves in the Los Angeles, hosting a moveable event like the draft there could be a first step. They could also try and bring in Hollywood talent both on the screen and behind it to help over produce the show even more, trying to push the ratings envelope even further.
Regardless of how over produced it is, or that we know the Patriots are going to trade out of the first round, we tune in. And we will continue to because NFL is the NFL and draft picks have have a chance to make an immediate impact.
I say this half sarcastically, but I bet the NFL is working hard to figure out how to televise the first 48 hours of free agency. It would be another over produced way to keep talking the NFL year round even when games are months and months away from being played.
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Though the league is undecided between LA and Chicago, next year’s NFL Draft is now set for April 30-May 2, per league sources.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 2, 2014
What once started with the commissioner handwriting the picks on a blackboard with chalk, as demonstrated below by Pete Rozelle.
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| Pete Rozelle running the 1967 NFL Draft (Jacob Harris/AP) |
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| 2014 NFL Draft stage at Radio City Music Hall (Getty Images) |
Regardless of how over produced it is, or that we know the Patriots are going to trade out of the first round, we tune in. And we will continue to because NFL is the NFL and draft picks have have a chance to make an immediate impact.
I say this half sarcastically, but I bet the NFL is working hard to figure out how to televise the first 48 hours of free agency. It would be another over produced way to keep talking the NFL year round even when games are months and months away from being played.
Follow me on Twitter @HookingFoul
Read my other stuff here!
