Isn't it all a bit much? Not just $35.99 for a cap, I mean, but everything?Īdmittedly, I've had only a casual interest in the draft over the years, which probably makes me un-American.
Twenty-four league sponsors "activated" during this year's draft, including New Era with its "Draft Reflective Cap," which has a reflective material that reveals "a mosaic of team word marks and logos" when exposed to a camera-phone flash ($35.99 on ). Like all things NFL, the draft is a spectacle that keeps growing, pulling in corporate sponsors, sucking in fans and making oodles of money for Roger Goodell and Co. Soon to come: three books and a made-for-TV movie. Google Tunsil's name and you get 2.78 million results. Who really knew much about Tunsil five days ago? Suddenly, the disgraced Ole Miss tackle is bigger than Kim Kardashian, Caitlyn Jenner and Justin Bieber combined. That story stands in stark contrast to the modern three-day, obsessively scrutinized, over-the-top extravaganza known as the NFL draft - where we are treated not only to Ezekiel Elliott's film highlights but to his six-pack abs on the red carpet, and to Deion Sanders concluding an interview with Laremy Tunsil by saying, "I'm proud of you," after Tunsil admitted that yes, it was him behind the gas mask, smoking the bong in that video on his hacked Twitter account. "I said, 'What round?' Wayne said, 'Fourth round.' I said, 'Who drafted me?' He said, 'Green Bay.' "Wayne said, 'You got drafted!'" Kramer recalled. In December 1957 - the NFL draft was held before Christmas back then - Kramer walked out of class one day and ran into Wayne Walker, a teammate who would play for the Detroit Lions. "A fellow that ran a sawmill about 15 miles away was a good friend of Jack's, so he came and scouted me and gave me a pretty good report," Kramer said. It's a good thing Jack Vainisi, then the Green Bay Packers' one-man scouting department, had a friend who lived in Idaho, or Kramer might not have been a starting guard on the teams that won five NFL titles in the 1960s. 'What's your military status? Are you interested in playing football? How big are you? How fast are you?'" "They were addressed, 'Dear Player,'" Kramer said with a laugh. A portion of the proceeds will benefit which supports those incarcerated for cannabis offenses.Jerry Kramer still has the letters he received from NFL teams when he was a senior at the University of Idaho.
Nearly six years to the day after the release of the video, Tunsil announced on Wednesday that he is "minting a 1 of 1 NFT of the infamous gas mask video to be listed. Tunsil's agent explained that his account had been hacked and the video posted without his consent, but it nonetheless led to him falling down draft boards and eventually being selected outside the top 10.įast forward to 2022, and Tunsil is ready to move on. Instead, mere minutes before the draft was set to begin, a video surfaced on Tunsil's Twitter account that showed Tunsil wearing a gas mask and smoking from a bong.
After two different teams traded up for quarterbacks, it still seemed like a sure bet that Tunsil would be drafted inside the top five or so selections. Back in 2016, University of Mississippi tackle Laremy Tunsil was widely considered the top prospect in the NFL Draft, and for a while he was the favorite to be the No.
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