You’re willingly tuning in to watch very large men run around cones and jump on mats? You’re seriously excited about viewing men in shorts running around cones? Quoting Sideshow Mel “this endeavor, is the height of tedium!”
The Scouting Combine is the most boring banal crap imaginable, and this coming from someone who updates their NFL mock draft weekly. I can’t believe how popular this rubbish is and how many people subject themselves to such boring, mundane crapola.
The 2016 NFL Scouting Combine on-field workouts begins Friday, February 26 with the running backs, offensive linemen and kickers, and continues with the quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends on Saturday, February 27, linebackers and defensive linemen on Sunday, February 28 and defensive backs on Monday, February 29.
I understand how important it is, believe me I do, as I’m a draftnik, but unless you’re a scout, or an agent or a NFL front office person why do you care that much? Why would you devote your day to watching something as interesting as paying utility bills?
At least it was funny and interesting the year this happened:
Anyway, we’ll have at least one Draft stock report for you pretty much everyday this week, so enjoy that and watch this space. To me, the NFL Draft stock reports are relevant, and do matter, but a nice 400 word synopsis is all you need. No human being should be tortured with 96 hours of live coverage or whatever the hell the Scouting Combine is televised these days.
February is definitely THE month for overrated, overhyped dull events that the TV networks desperately try so hard to make us care about- Pro Bowl, NHL All-Star Game, National Signing Day, Super Bowl Media Day, NBA All-Star Weekend, Scouting Combine.
This week/weekend is also indicative of the NFL’s non-stop quest to shove their product down our throats year round every year.
That’s on us though for accepting that. We should be above this. It shouldn’t be all NFL all the time 12 months a year. In other words, really why do we care so much about the Scouting Combine anyway?
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