justo's trip to the draft

justo · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:06 pm Post subject: justo's trip to the draft

Not sure how many of you know but I actually made my way to Radio City in April to see the Packers make a couple of choices.

I can't exactly remember when I went to wait in line for the draft the night before but I remember people posting on twitter that the line started around 2 PM. Tickets don't get handed out till midnight... It's the coolest wait ever though. People are trying to hide drinks and it's like a live version of footballs future. (also apparently there isn't such thing as a Cardinal or Falcon fan in real life...only two teams I didn't see fans of day 1). While you wait people walk by and ask questions, talk crap (every Mike Vick jersey that walked by was screamed at by dog lovers, Big Ben jerseys were met with "She said no! She said no! by a group of insane Browns fans. I mean it. There was a group of like 6 of them that were legit nuts.) Best reaction was some dumb (but hot) blonde that asked what we were doing
"We are waiting for the draft."
"Wait you guys are alllll going into the army."
:blank stare by 1000s of 20-50 year olds in jerseys..:
Day 1 there also is like NFL Network, SB Nation, ESPN, ect all asking fans about what they wanted and where they were from. A Colts fan I met got asked like 30 times about Luck before just starting to troll and saying he actually wanted Tannehill over both RG3 and Luck. I was probably in line around 4 that day and was in the second section of the line (not bad at all since it seemed like there was a line for miles on the other side).
Here come blurry pictures!

NFL Network guys

Best part of the night might have been the Saints dude that was right behind me in line yelling at Goddell "Why don't you free Peyton?" while he was shaking hands and Roger just looking back at him saying "why doesn't he follow rules?", shrug his shoulders and walk away. He won me over.

A group of Redskin fans were very poorly hiding the fact that they were drinking ahead of me and Goddell asked if they were drinking water in those red cups. They smiled and said yes and he threw a new nike jersey into the crowd of them. It was a small in girls size.

A cool way to pass time before going to the draft is visiting the NFL Shop like 7 blocks down from Radio City. Whole thing is set up with the new nike jerseys and stuff before they are sold anywhere else (Rodgers jersey had my name all over it)

Fan shots

RG3 super fan

The crazy Browns dudes

Dan Rubenstein (SB Nation, Oregon journalism grad, The Solid Verbal)

I actually got Rubenstein's number and talked to a guy that worked for the Dallas paper. People that cover the sport are really friendly with the "fans" that they write for there.

Now there is a couple of places you can sit in Radio City. there is the floor level that everyone wants to sit at, the flat level (which everyone thinks is the floor level) and the balcony seats (which are high up so no one wants) but the tickets are given to you at random. First day I got the flat level.

ESPN and NFL Network all in the way of my face. Also I think the floor levels are given to certain special people because no one I met second day went on that level

In radio city there is a bunch of stuff "a look like a draft pick and take a picture" type thing and stuff like that but I just wanted to see the hardware they had upstairs.

About halfway through the second day (3rd round I want to say because the Packers were done) someone asked if I wanted to moved down to the floor level. Well hell yes I did

that's it. if you guys have questions you can ask me about it. just figured i should share this with you guys
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lilant2398 · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 1363 Location: St.louis

Wow,, looked amazing thanka
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justo · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 4:25 pm Post subject:

jyod21 · Joined: 13 Sep 2011 Posts: 969 Location: Morgantown, WV

That's awesome. Are you planning on going again in the future or is it one of those "one time is enough"deals that you just need to experience?
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justo · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject:

jyod21 · Joined: 13 Sep 2011 Posts: 969 Location: Morgantown, WV

justo · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 4:20 pm Post subject:

TVScout · Joined: 05 May 2009 Posts: 1300

It is a dream of mine to go but I am afraid that I will miss out on getting a ticket. Were there people who got turned back because the event was "sold out" ?

justo · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 10:40 am Post subject:

TVScout · Joined: 05 May 2009 Posts: 1300