The NFL Draft is this weekend, and ESPN is entering their 57th day of intense, round-the-clock coverage of the draft. I have one simple thing to say to them: Stop. You’re hurting America.<\/p>\n
This isn’t even a real sports story– this is a fantasy sports story. This is like college basketball recruiting, only even less interesting– half of the guys who go in the first round won’t pan out, and half of the superstars of tomorrow will be little-regarded sixth-round picks who go on to win multiple Super Bowl MVP awards. The draft is meaningful only in the spherical, frictionless, eleven-dimensional reality in which all of these players play exactly as well in the pros as they did in college. People who live in the real world know that meaningful football doesn’t happen before September.<\/p>\n
The extended wall-to-wall NFL draft coverage is stupid, and annoying. Every time I see Mel Kiper and his magnificent plastic pompadour (which I’m sure snaps onto his head in a single piece, like a Lego guy), I come a little bit closer to wishing for death. (Whose death, it’s hard to say…)<\/p>\n
Please stop. Just say no to this fantasy football nonsense. Cover some actual sports for once (and no, paintball doesn’t count). There’s methadone basketball being played, and hockey, and baseball, and the World Cup is coming up in soccer, and I’m sure they’re playing rugby somewhere. Hell if you started to cover cricket, that<\/strong> would be an improvement over further speculation about what the Baltimore Ravens are going to do with the thirteenth pick in the first round.<\/p>\n Just stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NFL Draft is this weekend, and ESPN is entering their 57th day of intense, round-the-clock coverage of the draft. I have one simple thing to say to them: Stop. You’re hurting America. This isn’t even a real sports story– this is a fantasy sports story. This is like college basketball recruiting, only even less… Continue reading Dear Mr. Fantasy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}