It's Eight O'Clock -- Do You Know Where Your Draft Picks Are?

Well, once again it's time for one of those occasions during the course of the year that every football fan waits for with anticipation and anxiety, wondering if their favorite team is going to  do something that can either make their hometown heroes an instant winner, or (Dare I even say it, Buffalo?) perhaps even a Super Bowl contender?

Yes, it's the NFL draft, a three day orgy of useless information, absurd predictions and phony drama so important to NFL stats freaks that if it was a Catholic feast, it'd be a holy day of obligation.  On the other hand, it's great to see some of these young men who've toiled on the fields of their alma maters for four (or three, or two) years get their big chance to realize a lifelong dream -- and you get the chance to see in how many different directions Mel Kiper Jr. can stretch his mouth muscles

But hold on.  Suddenly during the course of the names being called out and the players being picked off one by one, it becomes apparent that there are a few All Americans and bowl game MVPs who for some reason are being bypassed. And why is that? Simply that once the people from the 32 NFL teams start digging into the background of some of these players they decide that well, he might be good, but he's not the right fit for us. And what are these flaws they may have the sad fortune to possess? 

Well, that's where I come in.  Thanks to one of my inside sources at NFL Headquarters (the guy who empties the paper shredder three times a month), I've been given an inside look at what the GM of every team in the league is NOT looking for when deciding to draft a player. And so, for all you fanatics who will be glued to your TVs tomorrow night and wondering why your favorite sure-bet guy from Boise State didn't get picked, here are the:

TOP 10 CHARACTERISTICS YOU DON'T WANT IN A PLAYER YOU'RE DRAFTING

10.) Had a summer job wrestling alligators – is now known as “Lefty”

9.) In an amazing feat of strength, once lifted all 40 of his teammates' wallets

8.) If he's drafted by the Raiders, hopes their  move to Las Vegas won't adversely affect his gambling habit

7.) Thinks a pulled hamstring is a dish on the menu of the local BBQ joint

6.) Told NFL scouts that the only reason he wants to be drafted is so he can catch a photo op of himself sharing a man hug with Roger Goodell

5.) Once got suspended for trying to tackle the team bus  

4.) Turned down a football scholarship to Ohio State because he couldn't spell “Ohio”

3.) Wants to get drafted by Cleveland so he can spend all his free time getting high and wandering around the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2.) Can't wait for the chance to start dating Taylor Swift as soon as she dumps Travis Kelce

AND THE NUMBER ONE CHARACTERISTIC YOU DON'T WANT IN A PLAYER YOU'RE DRAFTING...

Thinks the Chargers are still in San Diego

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                     "Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength."

-- Thomas Pynchon

The Comey Chronicles, Bizarro Edition

So last week when the notes that former FBI Director James Comey reportedly wrote after meeting with Donald Trump were leaked to the press and the public, we essentially learned all we needed to learn about what went on in that infamous meeting between the two of them, didn't we?... Didn't we?

Well, actually no. Evidently Comey was smart enough to hold one page of his notes back -- notes which could be the most damning of all for the Trump presidency. But thanks to my inside sources at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the guy who sells hot dogs and soft drinks from a cart outside FBI headquarters -- try him, his prices are reasonable), I now have in my possession  a transcript of that final page, and you, my dear friends will be the first to see it. So without further delay (and with  a federal subpoena probably hanging over my head from this moment on), here are the 

TOP 10 NOTES JAMES COMEY WROTE AFTER MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP

10.) Keeps an emergency McDonald's Happy Meal in his desk just in case of nuclear war

9.) Thought Rudy Giuliani was much more appealing as a woman

8.) Wondered if I happened to know any Playboy centerfold models or Russian hookers – said he was asking for a friend

7.) If you blow on his hair, you'll startle the family of grasshoppers living in it

6.) Said his favorite poem begins with “There was a young man from Nantucket”

5.) Told me his endearing pet nickname for Sean Hannity is “That lyin' sack of Irish potatoes”

4.) Kept asking me to check a suspicious discolored mole he had in a place where I didn't want to look

3.) Wondered if I could tell him where Syria was – said he was asking for a friend

2.) Knew all along that Obama was really born in Hawaii. Only said he was born in Kenya because Eric and Donald Jr. kept asking him where black people come from

AND THE NUMBER ONE NOTE JAMES COMEY WROTE AFTER MEETING WITH DONALD TRUMP...

Told me I could look forward to getting plenty of mentions in his future tweets

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                     "Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength."

-- Thomas Pynchon