These days, sports reporters who work for networks have to be told not to spoil the picks for their programs. So intent they are on getting “the scoop” that they want to tell the world 10 seconds before they’ll find out anyway.
It wasn’t like that “back in the day”. Back in Mark Bruener’s day, when he answered the phone for the Pittsburgh Steelers and spent two minutes trying to figure out who was calling. He recounted his own draft day story to Paul Schneiderman for Sports Untold recently. It’s kind of amusing the consider how much has changed in the past three decades.