{"id":9064,"date":"2011-04-29T13:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2011-04-29T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:59:51","slug":"qotd-the-nfl-draft-is-the-oscars-for-straight-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/qotd-the-nfl-draft-is-the-oscars-for-straight-men\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The NFL draft is &#8220;The Oscars for Straight Men&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Some comedian once called the NFL Draft \u201cThe Oscars for Straight Men,\u201d and there is something to that label. While everyone will \u201cgrade\u201d the teams\u2019 drafts, and fans will argue and kibitz about who their team should have drafted, there are no definitive winners or losers. One of the more ridiculous aspects of the day is how every team claims to have gotten the players they wanted or rated highest. Just once, it would be thrilling to hear a general manager come out and say, \u201cLook, we know he\u2019s a reach, but all of the guys we rated highest were picked already, the coach and head scout got into a screaming match, the clock was ticking down and so I flipped a coin. Knowing his pain-in-the-tush agent, he\u2019s probably going to hold out most of training camp, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim Geraghty, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/right-field\/266022\/why-draft-so-engrossing-nfl-fans-jim-geraghty\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Is the Draft So Engrossing to NFL Fans?&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, 2011-04-29<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some comedian once called the NFL Draft \u201cThe Oscars for Straight Men,\u201d and there is something to that label. While everyone will \u201cgrade\u201d the teams\u2019 drafts, and fans will argue and kibitz about who their team should have drafted, there are no definitive winners or losers. One of the more ridiculous aspects of the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,57,28,41],"tags":[179,101],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","tag-nfl","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2mc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9065,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}