[sphinx]

700,000 visitors and travel disruptions ... linked to the NFL draft? What the #@!?????

It’s not like this was something important, like a TikTok influencer filming a new brand launch. At least that event might hand out free samples.

I hope the next NFL commissioner will get back to basics and hold the draft in an IHOP in Dubuque. But I suppose tv calls the shots, as it does for everything in big time sports.

We should probably be grateful that the NFL draft doesn’t involve cheerleaders in pasties and hip-hop acts between each round. Yet.

[GreenHornet]

I hope the next NFL commissioner will get back to basics and hold the draft in an IHOP in Dubuque.

I remember when the NFL draft was not a week long, manufactured Mardi Gras type of event. The NFL brass would meet for a day or two in New York or Las Vegas and conduct the draft. The next day on your local news you'd see a short segment on who your team drafted, and that was it.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

But I suppose tv Las Vegas calls the shots

[UB355]

The 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay had a total attendance of 600,000