SlickBomb's NFL Draft Report, Part 1
None of us at KSK were able to attend this weekend's draft. But longtime Deadspin commenter SlickBomb had the testicular fortitude to get up at o'dark thirty to go wait in line at 5AM for the draft. Here, he provides us with a photo diary/KSK merchandise infomercial. Big thanks to SlickBomb for this. Judging by some of the photos, he may have Parkinson's Disease. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Who is that gangly cracka?
I got up at 3:00 in the morning the day of the draft. It took me an hour to get all my shit together, and get to the 1 train from the Upper East Side. Because some delays with the train, I got to Radio City Music hall at 5:00 on the button, and the line was already three blocks long and seven people deep. Give credit RE: ESPN/NFL hype machine. According to the guys waiting on line with me, the line had never been that bad before.
I don't remember when the gates opened up to take tickets. But I'd say it was about a 2-3 hour wait from where I was standing. It was light out by the time I arrived at the window, and I was one of the last people able to get tickets. All those people waiting behind me for three hours? Access denied. Early bird catches the worm, bitches. Better luck next year, and good luck getting those three hours of your life back.
As a consolation, the NFL set up an NFL fan-fest just next to the Time-Life Building about three blocks away, and invited fans to participate. "Fan-fests" at events like these basically mean "ridiculous amounts of product placement." When the thing wasn't even set up yet, I was able to get some pictures before it started to swarm with tired, pissed off fans.
Coming up: Part 2, where NFL fans frighten and sadden us.
22 comments:
Old ugly people who throw up the shocker take the fun out of it for good looking young people who actually use it.
I don't think he has Parkinson's. From my own experience, Manhattan always looks like that at 3AM on a Saturday morning. All blurry and spinny and vomity.
My favorite part - us being made to line up around 6th Avenue onto 51st Street and then being forced to SPRINT around the block to get into the "real" line that went east along 50th street. It was a literal free for all. I do not enjoy sprinting in general. I like it less at 5:00am.
was the creepy burger king there ?
also, who else wanted to reach through the screen and punch berman everytime an ivy league player, past or present, was mentioned ?
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is this thing talking shit to me ?
@Beaverfever...
Yep, the Burger King was there...and Cleveland drafted him
That guy throwin up the Shocker looks pretty young. Id say he is only a couple years out of high school. Also, my experience is girls dont really like the shocker unless they know that my finger is going in their ass ahead of time, which goes against the whole premise of the "shocker". Maybe it should be called the "Im going to try to slip a finger in your butt so, please do not become enraged and demand that I leave". Doesnt quite flow off the tongue but it wont leave me with blue balls.
Was it me or was anyone afraid the Mel Kiper was going to have a aneuyrism or a coronary after Miami passed on Quinn? We were switching back and forth between the WWL and the NFL network for coverage and almost missed Kiper practically killing Cam Cameron.
The NFL network's version of Kiper (Mitch Mayock, I think is his name) sounds funny.
I knew I needed to get my own place when my roommate refused to take his novelty giant foam shocker down from the mantle when I would bring a girl home. "If she doesn't appreciate the shocker, she's not the right kind of girl anyway!"
Did you sneak in a flask or anything else to help keep your mind limber?
The media dude looks like Fassel.
camelpack?
Devang, as a Fins fan, I didn't know if I was angrier that Miami picked Ginn (I didn't want Quinn either) or because Kiper seriously seemed angrier than me. If I was paid big money to make predictions and I only got like 5 right per year, I wouldn't get angry. I'd start looking for a new job.
@burnsy
Wow, that's a lot of anger right there.
I absolutely concur with you. Who's going to throw to Ginn?
the picture is too pixellated to identify said interloper. Not a PS guru like 289
@ UM: Unfortunately, no. No outside drinks, and that includes camelbaks. I was also carrying a lot of heavy video equipment, AND a bag of schwag.
Freebies! I mean freebies, pothead.
Here's where the NFL sucks on this: if you get there at 5:15 a.m. instead of 5:00, and you're not getting in, that's a real bitch. At these things, you've always got to have a staffer there to take a count and let people know that they should go the fuck home at some point because there's no chance they're getting in.
Maybe they did that later on down the line, but I somehow doubt it.
The media person looks like Simmons.
+1200 Slickbomb. Too bad you missed a great Yankees game!
The media guy is Lupica. What a dork.
I've decided based on the first picture that Slickbomb is cute. Way to go, SB.
I'm very disappointed that I didn't hear Berman's self-important reaction when the Giants took DeOssie. Can anyone describe it or something? Did they blur it when Boomer started to whack off to his own greatness, or just put it on the air as is?
There's a reason Kiper is a draft analyst and not one who actually makes draft picks.
I believe the Sprint guy is actually flashing the Devil's Horns, not the Shocker.
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