You can hear the draft

This weekend is the NFL draft. So tread carefully around the sports TV channels. This is the week you brace yourself for some serious information-overload. You will hear irrelevant details incessantly about dudes you have never heard of and some of whom, you may never hear about again. This is the week when ESPN will pimp Mel Kiper Jr. more than it does Derek Jeter, MJ and LeBron combined. And the draft day is Christmas and New Years rolled into one for Mel Kiper Jr. Luckily for us, there is some NBA playoffs for a little distraction if these guys start going nuts on us.

I know that NFL is king and it has become a year-round sport for ESPN. They could probably telecast a live show just showing all the 60 year-old assistant coaches in the NFL shaving their grey beards, and it'll outdraw most other sports on TV. But still, ESPN can get on your nerves with how serious they take this draft stuff. It's almost like they are running a never-ending half-time show since the last Super Bowl. It's like the season never ended for these guys. Even the GMs take a few days off from football, but ESPN doesn't. Now, they have also started following college football year-around. It's hard to decide what's worse - watching Auburn offense play against Auburn defense in Mid-April or watching Mel Kiper go on and on about a place kicker.

So If you hear stupid terms like "high-motor" and "4.4-40", don't think they are talking about some washing machine. They are indeed talking about real and rather large human beings. If you see a giant table with 16 guys sitting around and talking about a 20 year-old, you know you are where you want to be - or where you don't want to be, depending on where your head is. Don't be surprised that Mel Kiper keeps saying "he is 5-Th on my board". Yes, nobody cares about Mel's board, but ESPN has convinced him otherwise. He seriously thinks the GMs are drafting straight out of his draft-board. So sit back, relax and be prepared to hear Mel Kiper Jr speak without breathing for 5 straight minutes about an outside linebacker who may or may not be drafted in the fifth round.