NFL DRAFT to move to PRIMETIME!!!
 

ESPN radio reporting that the NFL is considering moving the first round of the draft to Primetime on Friday night!!!

A wise man once said, "you can't drink all day if you don't start first thing in the morning." I like the draft on Saturday. It's a good excuse to start drinking at 10am and besides, the first round is like 6 hours long.

Roger Goodell might need to cool it a little. The NFL was fine under Tags, and by "fine" I mean "the most sucessful sports league on the planet". His disciplinary system where he is judge and jury is ridiculous, The notion of holding the Superbowl outside of the US is absolutely retarded and this is just another example of him tinkering with things that are fine the way they are.

Oops...I just got suspended for three games.

Amen... If it aint broke, dont try to fix it!!!!

I understand the need for longer times in the first 2 rounds, but 15 minutes per pick is too long. It's too long to watch and I'm sure it's too long for teams to have all their personnel assembled just to sit and wait.

The actual speed of round 1 was about 12 minutes per pick. I'd say cap it at 10. Rd. 2 give 7 and then 5 the rest of the way.

I agree, I hate his disciplinary system the players want play hard because of it, playing in other countries doesn't make sense with the NFL being popular here. He will mess everything up.

disciplinary system
 

disciplinary system I am all for it. Prevent the ones that come in and think you are a player in the NFL and you can get away with anything you want should not work! Some of the players seem to be using the money and fame to get away with things in the court systems but at least someone is going to make them accountable for there actions. I am all for giving someone a chance but if you blow it BYE BYE!

Euphoria, you are right that the NFL needs a means by which to punish poor conduct, but it's not okay to have the same person (Goodell) bring the charges, hear the charges, mete out the punishments and hear the appeals. There will be a backlash from the players, and the players are the ones that fill the seats.

There needs to be a check and balance system. Maybe the players' and/or owners' can form a tribunal or somthing of the sort that can hear the appeals or hand out fines and suspensions.

Well I guess that is because I don't think the players are doing anything wrong. All someone has to do, is say a player did something and that is it. There is another reason that they are being picked on. I wonder why the NBA and NFL are dissed , but the NHL and MLB are not.

Military is the same way (NJP), you don't have to have evidence all you have to do is be accused and the Commanding Officer just has to feel or believe you did it.

I don't think anything has changed... the commissionor was always able to suspend a player for whatever. They can challenge it through a review board. The only real difference is the punishment is harsher now days.

Agreed. It is so ridiculous waiting all that time

Wait a sec.

Steve Czaban of Fox Sports was talking about tv ratings this morning, and wondered out loud what would happen should the Draft be televised fri-sun instead of sat-sun, and be televised on friday during prime time.

Now ESPN reports that the NFL is considering it?

i enjoy the draft on Saturday and i also think that playing the super bowl outside the u.s. is stupid and would make me think about not being a fan anymore. just my feelings. now as far as his approach to the idiots that run around getting into trouble that has been a long time coming. i think he is right on with that. just because you can afford a good attorney and keep from being found guilty doesn't mean you aren't. if i had half the issues that some of these cats have, and ones as serious as they do, and my face was flashed on tv and the media kept saying the name of the company i worked for, they would fire me in a heart beat. so he has every right to go after these guys and sit them for the season. guilty or not guilty you represent who employees you and in the end it is always the nfl. so if you are constantly bringing negative attention to that employer they have every right to suspend or fire you. just like baseball did to rose.

The draft is too long. I don't really know if moving one round to friday would help. Just shorten the time and cram it in tighter an we'll be fine.

Moving the Superbowl outside the US? Never heard about that one before. Living in Europe I'm all for regular season games here (although it'll be cheaper for me to fly to NO to watch one), but the superbowl? That should stay put, for now.

It is so blatantly obvious to me that a lot of teams are milking the 15 min clock so ESPN can get their maximum air time and commercials. I kept checking the web, couldn't stand to actually watch much more of it.

I love the idea, The little lady hates it....:p . If the coaches have time to plan out rounds 2/3 over night it would lead to some interesting moves on day 2, thats for sure. alot of wheeling and deal would happen. :handguns:

Holy Cow! I should be the NFL Commissioner or at least on the Competition Committee!

Here's an article about changing the draft times...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2872514

In relevant part the article says...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2872326

You know whats odd? The article just below said the regular sesason game being played at Wimbley sold 40,000 tickets in 90 minutes. That was just for european "fans".

Can we get a premier league game in return? I'd take an Arsenal/Chelsea game for a Dolphins/Giants game any day of the week.

Oh, and well played ScottyRo, well played indeed.

It takes so long because the players' values are that much higher. That makes trade discussions that much longer. It's easy to strike a quick bargain when the values aren't so high.

I think reducing it to what has been suggested is the right thing to do, but I'm positive it is also going to cut down on the number of trades because it make them more difficult.