If there’s any proof that we as a society have waaay too much time on our hands it would be the absurdity of the NFL draft. Granted, as I am currently half heartedly watching the NFL draft I certainly fall in this category of people who have too much time on their hands. This is why I am very skeptical when I hear anyone say that they don’t have time to do this or that, usually something that has a priori benefits. Priorities are those things that we make time for. If something is of a high priority, we find time to do it, we lose sleep or drop lesser priority activities to make sure that we do it. My point is this: believe it or not people literally spend hours of their life watching and waiting for someone to step to a podium to say the name of someone they don’t know or will ever meet to watch them play a game they will never participate in. What a bizarre thing this is! Perhaps the most amazing thing is how seriously some people take this this whole process. Like the probable countless blogs on the NFL draft or the number of commentators on multiple networks willing to disect each and every one of the two hundred or so players that will be drafted to the extent of measuring the most meaningless minutia. Personally I would think it would be fascinating to hear someone analyze the diction and pronunciation that Roger Goodell uses when he announces each draft pick. I’m just an English nerd, but that would make for fascinating television if you ask me.
