Draft Day (2014)
Drama/Sports Rated 12 Netflix Spoiler Free A close friend of mine who’s into American Football, a sport I’m fast becoming addicted to, told me if you want to understand the draft then Draft Day is a great place to start. Apart from some basics such as the lowest team picking the cream of the crop (something the Premier League could learn from) of college football’s professional newbies I am dumb to the process. This egalitarian levelling of the playing field in order to even things up, I really don’t get, but I like. On one hand it’s confusing, on another it’s fair and that makes it kinda at odds with Capitalism. Masses of money is involved, but it’s oddly more sensibly spent than the weird world of The Premier League. I decided I need to learn about Draft Day and another Kevin Costner sports film was music to my ears as I like him, and crucially it’s on Netflix. First fact bomb: The NFL’s draft day is really not a day, much like its games aren’t 80 minutes. Without knowing much about
