New Draft Blackout Video

Tony2046 said:

@Ian- are you going to start a draft day thread?

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That would be great, with updates coming from people following draft selections on twitter.

Then those among us who are too tempted to help themselves from draft-day curiousity can get their fix without any NFL site gettng any clicks at all.

rules: no links to BSPN, no links to NYJFL.COM, etc.

Tony2046 said:

@Ian- are you going to start a draft day thread?

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Yes, we'll have a thread here and each day throughout the weekend and the guys will be posting stuff as well, so we'll have some stuff here and I'll try and focus on different sources to make sure we have plenty of links here for people to refer to.

My mother let me skip school in 1979 to watch my first NFL draft. In college, I twice asked a professor to change a test date, so I could watch it. All in all, over the last 37 years, I've watched nearly every televised round of every draft.

Tomorrow night I will not be watching nor will I be watching Friday or Saturday. Perhaps, I'll never watch it again.

Frankly, I have no desire to watch. What the NFL has done by the farce known as "Deflategate " is kill much of the passion I've had for pro football since I was 8 years old. It will never be the same for me, I fear.

How can I continue to support a business that has perpetrated such an injustice not only on Tom Brady and the Patriots but on me as a fan. How could the NFL league office and even Robert Kraft take for granted a loyal customer of 45 years this way? We're pride less dupes if we let them get away with it.

I'll watch the Patriots. That I can not stop. But, I will not watch another non-Patriot game again until this Commissioner and his henchmen are removed from power.


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Also moving my bookmark so I don't accidentally click on Reiss. Love you Mike, but no ESPN clicks whatsoever until this draft farce is over and that means the whole draft.

CBS Sports web OK for for round 2 and beyond?

RayClay said:

CBS Sports web OK for for round 2 and beyond?

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Was thinking about that. CBS usually is pretty good with their draft coverage, so that was one I was thinking about, although I think Patriots.com should also have a feed.

Yeah, I'm curious about where the best location is to follow the picks. I won't watch, but I'll still want to know what's going on as close to "live" as possible...

Ross12 said:

Yeah, I'm curious about where the best location is to follow the picks. I won't watch, but I'll still want to know what's going on as close to "live" as possible...

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2016 NFL Draft Tracker

This looks like it's going to be updating constantly, plus it has a neat feature for Tweets as well.

(BTW: sweet avi. I have that same hoodie! Edit: Oh, and the chick's cool too. )

I'm in . I'm not watching a second of it and no clicks. if you aren't angry enough to boycot then you just don't care.

AtomicDawg said:

2016 NFL Draft Tracker

This looks like it's going to be updating constantly, plus it has a neat feature for Tweets as well.

(BTW: sweet avi. I have that same hoodie! Edit: Oh, and the chick's cool too. )

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Awesome! Thanks for the link.

And thanks! I got the hoodie for my birthday last year and it's my favorite. Picture taken with wife on a ferry into Boston on the mini-vacation we just took.

Ross12 said:

Awesome! Thanks for the link.

And thanks! I got the hoodie for my birthday last year and it's my favorite. Picture taken with wife on a ferry into Boston on the mini-vacation we just took.

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You weren't lying....you're a giant compared to her.

Clonamery said:

You weren't lying....you're a giant compared to her.

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It has a lot to do with camera perspective, but yes, I am a fair bit bigger than her lol

Firemisson!


I don't know exactly why but I just heard on WEEI Jerry Thornton stating he will be watching the draft tonight. I don't care what reason it is, the man who states he's is all in, will be watching the draft. Hit his twitter! Burn it up, show your frustration!

Why watch the draft when you can watch the Celtics playoff game tonight? If you really need to know, the draft choices will be all over the web anyway.

Great job with the video Ian. I posted it all over Facebook. I hope it (and all the folks who have pledged not to watch) makes a difference and makes the NFL sit up and take notice.

There's nothing to do tonight - know what I mean?

The draft has always been my winter project. I just don't "watch" it, I work it. I have a stack of draft guides dating back to 1992.

Having said that, I would rather put my feet in boiling oil than watch that puke Goodell hugging the picks tonight. Tomorrow night is when the real draft begins anyway.

And, excellent job on that video Ian.

Count me in and I would fully support blacking out/boycotting our home opener at Gillette vs the dolphins.

Ian said:

I made this two weeks ago and had decided to shelve it after things had quieted down due to the lack of interest. But after yesterday's news, the guys and I talked and I decided to release it. These are very real numbers when it comes to people like the league and ESPN who have their own marketing people who sell their ads, and the figures come from their full background takeovers, video ads that run before their videos, banner ads, those story links below their articles, etc. So the potential to hurt them is very, very real.

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blackout the entire draft.