How do you measure cheering and booing the NFL draft when you can’t hear the cheers and boos because everyone’s at home? A 21-year-old college student developed a solution.
NFL teams are normally judged on their draft picks by the simplest metric possible. Roger Goodell walks to the podium and announces the selection. Then the throngs of fans in attendance immediately grade the pick one of two ways: They cheer. Or they boo.
But this Thursday’s NFL draft is highly abnormal. It’s taking place remotely and not in Las Vegas as planned because of the coronavirus. Goodell is announcing the picks from his basement. The only people who will hear New York Jets fans boo are the poor souls who decided...
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