... is upon us: The NFL draft.
Why is it so good? Readers love lists, so here's one:
1. Late April is otherwise a sports dead zone. What have we got -- Roidball (MBL), Thugball (NBA) and Arena Football. And unless it involves a congressional hearing or a brawl in the stands, I'd rather watch the latter. Oh, and we have golf. Oy.
2. Fan participation. In a scant four months, some of us nerds will be conducting exhaustive research in preparation for our own fantasy football drafts. This totally gets us in the mood. (Tough draft this year, but I'd take Auburn RB Ronnie Brown number one, were I SanFran. Braylon Edwards number two. Let the QBs fall to the 8-10 area, if you ask me.)
3. It weds together the two best professional sports leagues in America: the NFL and college football.
4. Excessive, ridiculously in-depth coverage. NFL writers otherwise are on long vacations. They come back for a few weeks and have nothing to do but write the occasional star-player-bitching-about-his-team story or draft profiles, draft predictions, draft analysis, and draft post-mortems. It's excellent.
San Francisco, you're on the clock.
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