NFL Films shot footage of the sports-savvy seven-year-old talking football and draft picks with Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday.
Anthony Smith and his dad were attending an NFL Films event in New Jersey a few weeks ago when the football-savvy seven-year-old just happened to rub elbows with NFL Commissioner
Smith said the NFL arranged everything for him and Anthony to fly out to the Motor City and stay at a hotel within walking distance of Thursday night’s annual NFL Selection Meeting in Detroit. The commissioner treated Anthony to a behind-the-scenes tour of how the draft works – everything from how the picks come in from the team headquarters across the country to the massive modern-day production that draws 275,000 fans to the event and millions more on TV.
Second, the Eagles’ fan was highly diplomatic and totally non-partisan when conversing with the commissioner. “He’s cool,” Anthony said of the Commish. “He asked what position I play in football, and he asked me who I thought was going to go first through six in the draft. He was asking questions, and we were talking football in his suite.”
“He put it together,” Smith said of Campbell. “He said, ‘we need to get content with this kid. His football knowledge and his whole personally are something we want to have for NFL Films’.”
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