In 18 days the Miami Dolphins will select 22nd overall in the first round of the NFL Draft — the single biggest day of the year for King Sport and its fans.
You read that right. The biggest day isn’t Super Bowl Sunday, which everybody watches but only fans of two teams care about. No, it is the draft, which invites fans of all 32 teams to traffic in hope, a quick fix, that one magical pick that turns everything around and makes everything right.
The draft fascinates because it is the one intersection of the NFL and college football, our two national addictions, and also because it is maddeningly, delightfully unpredictable.