The NFL Draft, Mel Kiper Should Be Labeled The ‘Bust’

February 23, 2010   ·   Scott Stone   ·   Jump to comments

Don’t blame Tim Tebow if he doesn’t make it into the National Football League as a quarterback.
The fact that ESPN is talking about his throwing motion in February is asinine.
The NFL Draft is the most overrated sporting event in the history of the world.
I wouldn’t even give the NFL Draft the tag of "sporting event." It’s more like a dog and pony show, a cliché nobody really understands yet it’s relevant in this case. Does ESPN televise the dog and pony show?
Tebow’s throwing motion is irrelevant. NFL scouts constantly miss on quarterbacks, running backs, and everything in between.
Leave Tebow alone and if he makes it, great.
ESPN has made the NFL Draft a huge deal when it is about as important as the draft in Major League Soccer.
Remember on one of the first televised NFL Draft telecasts on ESPN , Dan Marino was said to be a “bust.”
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