History of the NFL Draft as 2024 Addition Approaches

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00:00 SportsFest Rick Hart with your Daily Numbers game. Detroit, NFL Draft. We'll talk about the economic

00:07 impact there in a future segment, but how about the history of the draft? 1936, Ritz-Carlton in

00:13 Philadelphia, Jay Berwanger drafted by the Eagles. He said, "No, I'm not going to play football.

00:20 I'm going to become a foam rubber salesman." And on it went. But then the draft starting in 1965,

00:27 50 straight years in New York. Then after that in 2015, Chicago, then Philly, then Nashville,

00:38 then Dallas, then Goodell's basement, Cleveland, Kansas City, Vegas, and now Detroit,

00:46 Green Bay next year. Economic impact, mobility, kind of like the Pro Bowl and certainly the Super

00:53 Bowl and a positive commitment in the NFL. That's why it's nearly a $25 billion business.