The American form of socialism: The so-called Draft the weakest teams to undertake the best youth players. And they can fight back hard.
Jameis Winston, star of this year’s NFL Drafts | © Jeff Gross / Getty Images
As the head of the National Football League (NFL) Roger Goodell strides to the podium in Chicago on Thursday night, Jameis Winston sits 1000 kilometers further south in his hometown of Bessemer, Alabama excited with his family. He is filmed by a camera crew. The 21-year-old is the biggest talent on the so important in American football quarterback position. In a few seconds Goodell will announce the fate of Jameis Winston and the 255 other young football players.
Goodell proceeds to console, brings short air and proclaims: “With the first selection of the NFL Drafts 2015 choose the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jameis Winston, quarterback, Florida State.” Rejoicing in Chicago, where the Tampa Bay fans have gathered in front of the speaker-desk. Cheers also in Alabama, where a smartly dressed Winston hugging his celebrating family members. Winston is the number one. The first player who has been taken up this year again in the NFL.
For the 80th time the NFL Draft by their leads. The most promising player of the universities are distributed among the 32 teams in the league. Unlike Europe, the sport youth in the United States recruited from non-profit organizations, but from the school and university sports. All new players who want the professional league must register to Draft. Prior to the athlete’s junior is checked for its performance and the large auction begins. One by one, the teams are looking for from the players that they would like to undertake.
Worst team has first choice
Jameis Winston is the star of this year’s draft. 2013 he won the Heisman Trophy for the best college players. Winston applies despite some controversy off the pitch as an exceptional talent. Which team would be able to undertake Winston? That was the big question before the Draft.
If Winston had had the choice, perhaps he would have chosen a different team. The weather in Tampa Bay may be good, the sporting prospects Buccaneers are not. Just two games was the team from Florida to win last season. Thus, the Bucs are the worst team in the league. But it is precisely this circumstance may owe the team that they now have a talent like Jameis Winston in their ranks.
Because choose the NFL teams, players in the reverse order of their cutting in the preseason from. The worst team gets to choose the best new player. The better the player, the less likely it is therefore, that he ends up with a top team like the Green Bay Packers or the New England Patriots. Winston at the Buccaneers, that would be in the football world as if Mario Götze would once went to SC Paderborn.
32 million TV viewers
One could from the draft system speak as an American form of socialism. The weakest teams will be helped by the league, by the best young players are made available to you. This is a tradition. The leagues for baseball, basketball and ice hockey select their players in a similar way.
The NFL Draft was launched in the 30′s into being after the co-owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, Bert Bell, in 1935 complained to the league about the fact that his wealthier teams, players wegschnappten. The following year, so they wrote in a hotel in Philadelphia, the name of the new player with chalk on a blackboard – the first “Draft”.
Philadelphia could actually be the first pick a new player – Jay Berwanger. An unfortunate choice. Berwanger decided against the sport, refused the offer of the Eagles and instead began a career as a foam-seller.
Since then, the draft has become increasingly popular and is televised since 1980. He is now one of the most important media events in the US. Last year, followed by NFL information 32 million viewers the first Draft Round. The mammoth event will be broadcast on three nights in succession, and resembles a bustling bazaar.
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