This year on Day 3 of the NFL Draft, ESPN’s Matt Miller posed the question:
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What single person has done the most to enhance the intrigue, evolution and popularity of the NFL Draft?
Here is a story I have told before, but for those of you who have yet to hear it, it may be worth repeating.
Back in the day when NFL drafts were held in conference rooms in a New York City hotel, were 12 rounds long and not televised (and you had to read the results in the newspaper the next day), I was so starved and desperate for information about a Cardinals’ draft that I called Cardinals’ headquarters posing as an NFL columnist for the Boston Herald and asked to speak with GM George Boone.