Dallas officially awarded 2018 NFL draft
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/dallas-reportedly-awarded-2018-nfl-draft-160738671.html
You knew, once the
NFL started moving the draft around to various cities, it wouldn’t take long for Jerry Jones to get his piece of the pie.
The NFL will hold the 2018 NFL draft at Jones’ AT&T Stadium just outside Dallas. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell confirmed that at a press conference Wednesday. The stadium holds more than 100,000 fans with massive video boards over the field, and there should be a massive crowd in football-crazy Texas. It should be quite a show.
This is no surprise for a few reasons. AT&T Stadium is perhaps the best stadium in the NFL, and that’s why it has hosted many big-time events like the College Football Playoff, Super Bowl and college basketball’s Final Four. On top of that, the Cowboys have perhaps the largest fan base in the NFL. The NFL wants to draw a ton of fans, as it did in Philadelphia earlier this season, and that’s a guarantee in Dallas...