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2026 NFL Draft
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Yeah this was the best news of the night. A lot of draft “experts” have been pushing to replace Skattebo with Love. Gee, I wonder why?
Scrolling down some of the replies to that X post it appears just a couple didn't mindlessly accept the announced figure. When the crowd was shown from a distance many times last night and you could see the football stadium and even the baseball stadium nearby it was obvious how much smaller than that the crowd was. I'd say about 15,000 or roughly enough to fill about a fourth to a fifth of Heinz Field, yet we're supposed to believe that small area held enough to fill it five times over.
In the USMC early 80s we had a SSGT Poly from Hawaii and that was the last place he wanted to be stationed. When we asked he said bluntly his idiot relatives and "friends" would drag him back into the stupidity and there would go his pension and bennies
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https://nfltraderumors.co/steelers-...-lemon-before-eagles-traded-up-to-select-him/
Looks like the Steelers were actually going to get the next bozo WR to continue their legacy of idiots at the position before the Eagles jumped in front of them.
Looks like the Steelers were actually going to get the next bozo WR to continue their legacy of idiots at the position before the Eagles jumped in front of them.
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I didn't watch any of the draft on tv, so I missed the crowd shots that you reference. I was able to find this image today that shows what I assume is the "Draft Theatre Viewing" area near Heinz Field. I couldn't however find any shots of Point State Park during the draft, just more stuff from the day with DWFs milling about. I'm sure this 320,000 is a huge lie, however I'm wondering if it was a little more than what is shown here? Are there alot of DWFs who decide to pack into downtown area bars, instead of crowding like cattle into this big "parking lot" where its probably harder to get their booze and deep fried food? I would imagine they are counted somehow to come up with this mythical number that the NFL propagandists can now parade about.
Goodell immediately announced as the draft started, "There are over 300,000 here." To get an accurate figure, there would have to be tickets sold and collected as a data point.
As far as the nearby areas, there's always a lot of people in what's called the North Shore, and there's also a large casino just beyond Heinz Field (it's latest corporate name is Acrisure Stadium). It's a popular food and entertainment area and the NFL would have no way of knowing how many people in those establishments last night were regulars or were NFL DWFs who decided to hang out there instead of going to the venue. And why would out of towners go to the expense of traveling to Pittsburgh only to not watch the draft in person? Given the congestion getting into and out of the draft venue, a lot of Pittsburghers undoubtedly stayed away altogether given the traffic headaches and very tight security precautions. The downtown area, which is actually compact and on the small side, was basically shut down to vehicle traffic. Attendees from the suburbs had to either take buses or Uber/Lyft and I doubt many Uber and Lyft drivers wanted to mess with getting in and out of the area. If anything there was probably a lot fewer people in the surrounding entertainment area than usual.
The only people I talked to who said they were going were a few young people. It's not an event someone middle aged and older would be interested in unless they were truly a hard-core DWF.
One of the few non-braindead responses to the tweet Leonardfan posted above is this one, and even that one is generous regarding the likely actual crowd size (and the response immediately below it is pure bs, talking about people watching in the football stadium and milling around the riverbank; I didn't see anyone in Heinz Field when they showed it):
As far as the nearby areas, there's always a lot of people in what's called the North Shore, and there's also a large casino just beyond Heinz Field (it's latest corporate name is Acrisure Stadium). It's a popular food and entertainment area and the NFL would have no way of knowing how many people in those establishments last night were regulars or were NFL DWFs who decided to hang out there instead of going to the venue. And why would out of towners go to the expense of traveling to Pittsburgh only to not watch the draft in person? Given the congestion getting into and out of the draft venue, a lot of Pittsburghers undoubtedly stayed away altogether given the traffic headaches and very tight security precautions. The downtown area, which is actually compact and on the small side, was basically shut down to vehicle traffic. Attendees from the suburbs had to either take buses or Uber/Lyft and I doubt many Uber and Lyft drivers wanted to mess with getting in and out of the area. If anything there was probably a lot fewer people in the surrounding entertainment area than usual.
The only people I talked to who said they were going were a few young people. It's not an event someone middle aged and older would be interested in unless they were truly a hard-core DWF.
One of the few non-braindead responses to the tweet Leonardfan posted above is this one, and even that one is generous regarding the likely actual crowd size (and the response immediately below it is pure bs, talking about people watching in the football stadium and milling around the riverbank; I didn't see anyone in Heinz Field when they showed it):
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Don, you are a wealth of knowledge!
I just can't help but laugh that people believe that the entire populations of cities like Orlando or Cincinnati or Pittsburgh itself basically can fit into 2 or 3 areas that would each fit maybe a medium sized concert or small festival. LOL.
