2010 NFL Combine

[JennaLaine]

Do we have a thread on this? If not...I just made it. Share your thoughts

 

[Pancamo]

St. Elmo Steakhouse

 

[spnited]

St. Elmo Steakhouse

The meat market after the meat market.


Most overblown waste of print space since the Pro Bowl.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Men jump. Men perform feats of strength. Men run. Men scramble to answer 50 questions in 12 minutes.

The only people it seems to influence are Mel Kiper, who is walking around with a two-day boner that should require consultation with a physician, Gil Brandt who will endorse Tim Tebow to a crowd of zero people, and Al Davis, who was last seen walking around with a stop watch and a radar gun stapled to his forehead.

Then those same men will jump, run, lift weights and answer questions all over again at their pro days and most of them will do those things better than they did them at the combine.

 

[Bob Cook]

I haven't been to the combine in a while, so I don't know if this is as big, but my favorite part was always the wanna-be agents trolling the hotel lobby for clients. One of my favorite stories of mine was following these guys around and talking to them about their absolutely impossible dream that this was the first step at becoming the next Drew Rosenhaus. At best, most of these guys had past low-round picks; most of them had nobody. You had to admire their moxie, and you had to facepalm at their delusion.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I haven't been to the combine in a while, so I don't know if this is as big, but favorite part were always the wanna-be agents trolling the hotel lobby for clients. One of my favorite stories of mine was following these guys around and talking to them about their absolutely impossible dream that this was the first step at becoming the next Drew Rosenhaus. At best, most of these guys had past low-round picks; most of them had nobody. You had to admire their moxie, and you had to facepalm at their delusion.

Most of the good ones have had their runners trolling the college campuses all season. At this point, the only game it isn't late in, is the poaching game.

 

[dooley_womack1]

For future reference, Jenna, you should title such threads, "What, no 2010 NFL Combine thread?" [/blue]

 

[budcrew08]

http://jenna-laine.com/

nice website

 

[dooley_womack1]

Its design seems fair to middling.

 

[Boom_70]

St. Elmo Steakhouse

Have plenty of water on hand when enjoying the shrimp cocktail.

Head to the Slippery Noodle Inn for the best blues around after.

 

[Shaggy]

I hate the Combine. I covered colleges for several years and I was lucky once or twice to have none of my guys at the Combine. Those were great Februarys.

The fact that NFL deadheads obsess over that crap is sad.

 

[Shaggy]

http://jenna-laine.com/

nice website

What's wrong with it?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of my favorite events to cover.

Most of my best stories about covering the NFL came while sitting at a restaurant after a busy day of writing and having a scout, agent or assistant coach, who has had way too much to drink come over to a table with a bunch of writers and talk way too much about stuff they should not be talking about.

 

[Bob Cook]

St. Elmo Steakhouse

Have plenty of water on hand when enjoying the shrimp cocktail.

Head to the Slippery Noodle Inn for the best blues around after.

Advice for those at the combine: if you want some slightly funkier nightlife than what the immediate area has to offer (not hard to get funkier than what the immediate area has to offer), it's a short trip to Mass. Ave (northeast downtown, behind the Indianapolis Star) and Fountain Square (neighborhood just southeast of downtown).

 

[Ace]

Nothing says funky like Indianapolis.

 

[Pancamo]

I hate the Combine. I covered colleges for several years and I was lucky once or twice to have none of my guys at the Combine. Those were great Februarys.

The fact that NFL deadheads obsess over that crap is sad.

As oppossed to College deadheads obsessing over Signing day.

 

[vicd]

One of my favorite events to cover.

Most of my best stories about covering the NFL came while sitting at a restaurant after a busy day of writing and having a scout, agent or assistant coach, who has had way too much to drink come over to a table with a bunch of writers and talk way too much about stuff they should not be talking about.

I believe this is what led to the Jon Gruden-Rich McKay feud.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of my favorite events to cover.

Most of my best stories about covering the NFL came while sitting at a restaurant after a busy day of writing and having a scout, agent or assistant coach, who has had way too much to drink come over to a table with a bunch of writers and talk way too much about stuff they should not be talking about.

I believe this is what led to the Jon Gruden-Rich McKay feud.

That was the owner's meetings. Gruden got loaded and started ripping the **** out of McKay in front of all of the beat writers.

 

[vicd]

That's right. Ha.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Several years ago I was out with about 10 other writers at St. Elmo's and the OC of a team with one of the top picks in the draft comes over and he was completely loaded.

"So you guys looking at Player X or do you think you'll have trade up to get him?"

"I can tell you with complete certainty that we have no interest in the guy."

"Why, is he injured? Did he get in trouble?"

"No, the guy is gay and our owner won't let us draft him."

The player is now one of the best players in the NFL.

The same coach then sat there for two hours and just talked **** for about two hours stuff that if he was reminded of the next day probably would have wanted to go hide. We just kept feeding him drinks the whole time. I know at least one writer recorded the ordeal.

The guy became a HC a few years later.