Tag: NFL Draft
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2025 NFL Draft Newsletter
How the hell is it nearly May already? It seems like it was just a few weeks ago that I was driving home from the elder Ewings’ place with my hard-won trophy in hand. Blink and you miss it — suddenly the trophy’s been sitting by my TV for nearly four months and it’s time to get the gears of the…
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2024 Draft Newsletter
As I creep up in years, I’m discovering that the term “with age comes wisdom” is not exactly true (though that may be just me being a dumbass). However, it does allow for a better perspective on things. One such thing I’ve been thinking about is football, specifically how football sucks. Now when I say…
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2023 Draft Newsletter
Welcome to a new era of the Epic League! Think that’s a bit dramatic? Consider the following: all but one of us are now in our 30’s, as of next weekend half of us will have been married, and Dad will soon not be the only member of the league who’s, well, a dad. We’re…
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2022 Draft Newsletter: Back with a Vengeance
So, that newsletter retirement didn’t last long, did it? Now I know what it feels like to be Tom Brady! I was truly content to end the newsletter in January. I wasn’t lying when I said it had become a grind and I was looking forward to not thinking about it for once. Then about…
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2021 Draft Newsletter: How will the Raiders screw up this time?
While we still are in a pandemic, I’m not doing another series of offseason newsletters. That shit was way too much work and I’ve somehow gotten even busier than before at FOX40. I’m doing the 10 p.m. show (M-F) now and this shit is hard, especially because we’re incredibly short-staffed (I have no writers for the majority…
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Pandemic Newsletter 2, Part 1: Socially Distant Draft
As the days go by, the more it becomes apparent just how different everything is and how these changes are going to be around for a while. My original prediction for when everything would start going back to normal was the first half of June. I still think that’s when social distancing guidelines will largely subside…
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