From Pro Football Talk:

Pearson appeared on PFT Live this morning and said that before he decided to talk a little trash to the Philadelphia fans, he ran it by Goodell backstage, and Goodell was on board.

“I’m thinking he might say, ‘Oh, no, don’t say anything like that, that might get them too fired up, might cause a riot out there in that crowd.’ But to my surprise, he encouraged me to say that and to get the crowd even more riled up,” Pearson said of his conversation with Goodell.

Pearson said the NFL provided him with a strong security presence just in case the Philadelphia fans had gone crazy. As it turned out, he and Goodell were hit with nothing worse than boos.

I am ALL IN on the NFL Draft as WWE. Why not? It’s 20 hours of TV to pick 224 names. It’s all theater. I love this direction, and I love that it’s possible only because of Philly. Nowhere else were you gonna get a crowd like that. It was like the NFL played an ECW house show. The fans were both raucous and informed. We weren’t joking on the podcast this morning when we said Mike Mayock should fight the chimp as the undercard to Pearson-Dawkins next year. And Jim Cramer can be the manager who gets stunnered.

Hell, why stop there? Maybe throw a wrinkle and allow the team whose rep wins a ladder match to move up and get the first pick in the second round. You want people to watch Day 2 coverage? That’s how you get people to watch Day 2 coverage.

The location shots were already like the promo video break-ins during someone else’s match. Imagine next year the Raiders are on the clock and all of a sudden the Kool-Aid man bursts through the screen. That’s Big Red’s music! It cuts to a video of Andy Reid sitting half-naked eating treats in an ice cream freezer, calling out the Davis family for being money-grubbing whores. The crowd would eat it up.

At the very least, entrance music should be a must.