Like virtually every pro football fan in America, I have long had a fascination with the NFL Draft.
And, considering the length of my time with and around the Denver Broncos, I had not stopped to realize that as employee and, way before that as reporter, I now have been on premises for 50 drafts.
In that lofty time span I have seen a lot of things and come to a lot of conclusions.
I can remember when George McFadden was the Broncos’ public relations director and my boss, having previously been with the San Francisco 49ers for over a decade.
I asked George how the media glut was in the 1960s on draft day.
“There was no media glut,” George replied. “There was virtually no media at all. We handled the draft by phone from the team occasions to New York, but there was no television coverage, ESPN did not exist yet. We would draft the players, and then I would type up a press release and we would send it to our local media outlets and hope that few of them would print their names in the…