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Victor Fiorillo wrote a banal screed about the NFL Draft for Philly Mag today, and I’m trying to wrap my head around how unhinged someone could be in print.

Look, I hate the draft hype. Hate it. The NFL and ESPN have figured out a way to milk every cent out of an event where sports teams pick a few rookies. But the draft itself is fine, and like it or not, it’s really popular. It’s the biggest non-championship event for the biggest sports league in the country… and this year it happens to be in Philly. Cool. Does it lead to a lot of road closures and congestion? You bet. Would I want to have anything to do with that if I lived in the city? Nope. That’s why I don’t live in the city and I live in the middle of Bucks County (my neighbor lamented to me that there was a day last year where he couldn’t go on his patio because there was a cow in his backyard– it sounded truly awful). So I get how people could be all boned up over this. But Victor’s rant is insane:

Some of the people who like to defend the city hosting the NFL Draft have used the old exposure argument. You know, this is great exposure for the city, all the eyes of the world will be on Philadelphia, yada yada yada, blah blah blah, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

But, excuse me. We are the fifth-largest city in the country. Do we really need exposure? We got plenty for the Pope, an actual important, world-watched event of a magnitude never-before-seen in Philadelphia. And everyone tuned in again when the DNC came to town, bringing with it the Obamas and a veritable who’s who of A-list celebrities.

So why on earth should the city be in lockdown mode for a bunch of future rapists, domestic-assault suspects, and drunk drivers who just happen to be able to catch a ball? And why are we taxpayers forced to fork over $500,000 (oh, you had better believe it will be more) toward the cost of what might just be the world’s most boring and overhyped event?

I could almost hear every Republican reading that line about the Obamas muttering, “Go to hell, you liberal douche!” And sure, no crooks or criminals at a political convention. No, sir!

If you think there’s more substance to his argument than this excerpt, then you’d be wrong. Just a dude, yelling at a cloud that’s obstructed by some a-hole holding a Carson Wentz sign. No substance where there’s room for legit criticism. Just Victor Fiorillo spitballing and lumping all 224 draft picks in with the very few who will ever be criminals. I’m no defender of scumbag athletes, but Fiorillo’s line about rapists and abusers is downright offensive and borders on being very racist, all because he watched Playmakers once and thinks he knows ALL ABOUT FOOTBALL.

Really, his piece somehow manages to be dumber than anything associated with the NFL Draft, and that’s saying something.

 

 

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