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Draft Creeping Into May?
Posted by Mike Florio on June 18, 2009, 8:47 a.m.
Earlier this year, a report popped up regarding the possibility of moving the draft from late April to late February. We scoffed at the viability of such an approach, and subsequent reports emerged refuting the possibility of a move.
As it turns out, the draft might not be moving up in the calendar, but down.
Per the Philadelphia Daily News (via our satellite PFT@SN site at SportingNews.com), the draft could be moving to May.
“It’s a function of the way the calendar falls,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Daily News. “The Super Bowl is late this year. . . . February 7, 2010. We are currently listing next year’s draft as ‘early May.’ We have not set the specific dates yet.”
The problem? It would conflict with the Kentucky Derby, an event about which we suppose we should now pretend to give a bushel of road apples since it’s televised by NBC. (Take that, Wasserman.)
Posted by Mike Florio on June 18, 2009, 8:47 a.m.
Earlier this year, a report popped up regarding the possibility of moving the draft from late April to late February. We scoffed at the viability of such an approach, and subsequent reports emerged refuting the possibility of a move.
As it turns out, the draft might not be moving up in the calendar, but down.
Per the Philadelphia Daily News (via our satellite PFT@SN site at SportingNews.com), the draft could be moving to May.
“It’s a function of the way the calendar falls,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Daily News. “The Super Bowl is late this year. . . . February 7, 2010. We are currently listing next year’s draft as ‘early May.’ We have not set the specific dates yet.”
The problem? It would conflict with the Kentucky Derby, an event about which we suppose we should now pretend to give a bushel of road apples since it’s televised by NBC. (Take that, Wasserman.)
