Post Draft Afterglow

Sports Dude:
Results of the draft party can be summed up in three words. Brady Quinn face. Defined as the look of trying to hide the holy s*it face. It was classic, Brady Quinn was thinking “I can’t believe they didn’t pick me. Do they really think that Tavarius Jackson, Jason Campbell, Daunte Culpepper, Matt Schaub, J.P. Losman, Aaron Rodgers etc… are better than me?” Reports say that Brady Quinn lost out on over $20 million dollars. Wait, I have good news Brady you get to play for your childhood team. Wait, I have bad news Brady your childhood team is the Browns? Seriously, you like the Browns? I am about the same age as Brady and as long as I can remember the Browns have either A. sucked or B. not had a team. Worst of all the Browns don’t get a first round pick next year so they will suck for even more years to come. So Brady is from a suburb of Cleveland which I guess it’s ok for him to like that team, but I live near KC and they have the Royals and when your team sucks that much they quickly become your second favorite team.

The events of the Draft Day Party were rather well… uneventful. The most people we had at the party at any one point were six. I didn’t care though, I ate lots of good food (hamburgers, hot dogs, and rotel dip) drank a few (12) beers. It was disappointing that no flag football was played though. Plus I got to see Mel Kipers head nearly explode on live T.V. when the Dolphins passed on Brady Quinn for Ted Ginn Jr. That moment ranks in my top ten best T.V. moments of all time. Tangent: I didn’t state last week that I never listen to Mel Kiper’s predictions because he is always wrong. E.I. 2005 NFL Draft the number one player on his big board was Mike Williams. Yes, the same Mike Williams that got traded this weekend because he was acting like an NBA player. Apparently, Mike Williams doesn’t know how to practice??? WTF he got a scholarship to USC. He has been pulling Shaq and playing at 20-25 pounds overweight. He has also been pulling a Vince Carter (which is the worst) and not trying. Long story short Mel Kiper predicted 3 of first round picks correctly and one of them was the worst kept secret since Chandler and Monica started dating on “Friends.” So basically lets say that Mel got 2 of 31 picks right. That is worse than pitchers batting average in the MLB, however, it is hovering around the same percentage that I am right with the ShopperGal. So why does everyone listen Mel and his Mel Gel? I need to know these things.

Quick conspiracy theory they were talking on ESPN on Saturday that Roger Goodell wanted to lengthen the football season by two more weeks. This falls into place with what I have been thinking that the NFL wants to have the Super Bowl on the day before Presidents Day. That way everyone would have the day off after the Super Bowl, this would import the NFL’s greatest marketing plan. “Our championship game is SUCH a big deal that the whole country gets the next day off.”

ShopperGal:
No broken bones, no broken appliances, no major messes to clean up – all in all the draft party was a pretty successful get together. I would know because I’ve seen many that did not end so neatly – case in point: my fiance’s new year’s eve party a few years ago. We woke up on new year’s day with the deck laying in the middle of the yard, about 20 beer bottles broken on the floor, two holes in the wall, numerous cigarette burns to the floor and a horrible smell that took months to get rid of.

This weekend’s party went much better. We had about 8 people throughout the day make an appearance – there were about 4 of us that stuck around the whole day watching tv for a whopping 8 hours (despite an 80 degree sunny Saturday that just begged for me to come out and play). I drank a lot but managed to stay pretty lucid the entire party. We had a lot of good food and a lot of fun conversation. We didn’t get to play our game of flag football (despite shelling out $10 for a flag football kit) and we didn’t even get a game of Madden going on XBOX (I was thankful for that). We were much too engrossed with the draft and it really was a pretty good draft.

I felt bad for Brady Quinn. I hated to see him slide. Mostly because I think he’s cute but also because he’s respectable – he actually got his degree at an Ivy league school (isn’t notre dame ivy league?) and has never been arrested (as far as I know). I was very intrigued by the girl sitting beside him and after doing some Internet searching found out it was his girlfriend (crap). She looked like she was about 15 but after thoroughly googleing her I found out she was at least 20 and plays soccer at Southern Ohio. She looked nervous in front of the cameras but who doesn’t.

Anyway I had fun despite hanging out with a bunch of dudes (yes it all male as I figured). Plus I got some cute little flavored shots to put in my beer. They are called Sparks and are made by Bud Light and they were mmmm-mmmmm delicious!