Today is NFL Draft Day ................
Gotta be one of the GREAT marketing jobs of all times. Millions will be watching, listening, pen and paper in hand ........... ask them why? They will say ..................... "I doonnnkkknnnnoooooowwww, everyone else is."
What kind of marketing did it take to get millions of people interested in which team is going to take which player. There are experts all over the world trying to come up with the answers. The BIG question, WHO is going to be NUMBER ONE .. who will then become an instant millionaire, and everyone will go back to their jobs and families, not one thing has changed in their lives, but, BIG changes for old NUMBER ONE.
And, how has all this attention changed the world? Let's be realistic, nothing has changed one iotta.
The Super Bowl used to be a football game, now it is a television extravaganza.
Draft Day used to be some owners getting together and drawing names, now look what has happened.
Television is STARVED for ANY event they can sell to advertisers, and they will take any small event and turn it in to an extravaganza, and, a television show. One network even televised the Women's WNBA, I think it is, basketball draft, and there was no suspense there, it was a done deal before it happened.
"If we make an event out of it, they will come." That is there motto. Joe Montana was on TV this morning, one of the great players in the NFL. He was drafted in the third round.
WHO will be number one tonight? I gotta admit, I have no idea, will not be watching, and really don't care.
The last DRAFT that interested me was in 1952, I was concerned about my grades in school, not doing very well, really not that interested, so I joined the Navy, TO AVOID THE DRAFT.
