Another year, another NFL Draft in the books and another 7 hours of my life that I will never have back.  But thats a good thing.  I watch the NFL Draft with such zealotry its eclpises most actual NFL games, in terms of the enjoyment I get out of it.  And to be perfectly honest, I'm not exactly sure why.  When I was asked recently by my girlfriend why I enjoy it so much, it turned into one of those "you wouldn't understand" answers which is basically code for "I'm embarrassed I'm unable to articulate why I dedicate an entire weekend to watching players who may or may not turn into productive NFL players".  Count me a victim of the NFL PR machine or just an absent minded sports fan who loves watching sporting events, either way, I'm a huge fan of the NFL Draft.

This year's draft was a bit different.  Roger Goodell decided to try and speed things up and in the process ruined any semblance of suspense at the top of the draft when you could clearly hear the loudspeaker at Radio City Music Hall informing the crowd that a selection was made, followed by a shot of one of the prospects celebrating and then 2 minutes later, Goodell formally announced the pick.  I wish some of these NFL Draft prospects had a sense of humor and just started faking a cell phone call and then celebrating wildly just to throw everyone off.  I don't care if that player turned into the biggest bust in NFL History, he would go down as my favorite of all time. 

Here are a couple of my other observations from the NFL Draft:

-- Apparently ESPN decided for a "Minority Report" - esque theme for this year's draft.   Didn't that movie come out like 5-6 years ago?  What, was the Matrix the backup plan?

-- Does anyone still like Berman?  He's become just like Champ in Anchorman when he starts rambling during lunch.  Hey Berman, why don't you sit the next one out, stop talking for while.  Everytime Berman started stumbling his way through a point and would finish, there would just be awkward silence from the rest of the panel.

-- Speaking of which, did all 5 of these guys just meet each other?  Even Bill Belicheck and Matt Walsh have better chemistry than those guys.

-- So Bill Belicheck wears a cut off hooded sweatshirt during some of the biggest games of his career, regularly conducts interviews in that same outfit but then busts out a pinke shirt/tie suit combo for 35 seconds of NFL Draft interview?  Someone's trying to do a little character damage control.

-- Joe Flacco, meet Kyle Boller.  Kyle Boller, meet Joe Flacco.   I can't wait to hear stories from Baltimore about how they were bowled over by Flacco's ability to throw a football 60 yards from his knees.

-- Chad Henne has the biggest chin I've ever seen on a human being.  He's like the personification of Quagmire from Family Guy.

Back with a couple more updates later this week...