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TODAY SportsLadies and gentlemen. . .we’ve made it!Yes, in less than 30 minutes,
the 2019 NFL Draft is going to be upon us, live and in living color from
Nashville, Tennessee. This is the place for everyone to talk about what’s going
on with the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the draft, as well as what’s
going on with the 31 teams that don’t matter nearly as much.I’ll be commenting
on the Twitter machine throughout the first round, and you can see all of that
right here.Tweets by DailyNorseman There is also a LIVE broadcast of Good
Morning, Gjallarhorn for your viewing and/or listening pleasure. I’ll be jumping
on there with Ted Glover, Dave Stefano, and Drew Bunting shortly after the
Vikings make their first round selection. That video is embedded below.As with
all of our Open Threads for bigger events, we ask that you refrain from using
GIFs, so as not to bog things down for people that want to come in and talk
about the 2019 NFL Draft. You can use the standard issue Open Thread for that
sort of thing.With that, enjoy the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft, ladies and
gentlemen! Kyle Rudolph is now in his ninth season with the Minnesota Vikings,
the team that drafted him in 2011. He’s had a stable career with just that
franchise
http://www.thevikingslockerroom.com/authentic-pat-elflein-jersey , but he was involved in at least one significant trade.In his father’s fantasy
football keeper league.“My dad actually did not draft me when I came out,”
Rudolph said. “One of his buddies did, and my dad traded for me, so I’m on his
team to this day.”The image of a father rooting on his son because of the
fantasy implications is amusing to think about, but Rudolph’s endearing anecdote
may be reasonably common nowadays. The 29-year-old tight end is part of a
generation of players who grew up as fantasy leagues were becoming part of the
mainstream sports culture in America.No discussion of the modern NFL and its
popularity is complete without acknowledging this phenomenon — in which fans all
over the country compete for championships of their own as owners of virtual
franchises.“I think it’s probably, as an offensive skill player, the most common
thing that you hear out in public: ‘Hey, I had you on my fantasy team last
year,’ or, ‘Hey, I have you on my fantasy team this year,'” Rudolph said. “Fans
are all about it, and it’s really changed kind of the landscape of the sports
fan.”From 2007 to 2017, the number of people playing fantasy football more than
tripled, from 13.8 million to 42.7 million
Womens Harrison Smith Jersey , according to the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association. This past Sunday, ESPN’s fantasy app drew 8.3 million unique
users — its biggest day ever — according to ESPN and Adobe Analytics.Networks,
websites and even NFL teams all seem to understand the draw of fantasy leagues,
and their importance to fans watching at home and in stadiums.“Anything that’s
good for overall NFL fandom is good for the individual clubs,” said Emily
Griffin, vice president of marketing for the Detroit Lions. “We consistently
hear from (fans): ‘We want more fantasy stats, we want more out-of-town
scores.'”When Rudolph describes his father’s league, it sounds almost
prehistoric compared to the internet-powered drafts and stat trackers of
today.“They started playing in 1979 when they were seniors in high school,” he
said. “Obviously at that time, you don’t have computers and internet, you get
the scores on TV afterward and get the newspaper to get the box scores, and it
was points only. So it didn’t matter how many catches, how many yards, how many
carries. … It’s a keeper league, so my dad had played since 1979 and had Dan
Marino for his whole career
Jaleel Johnson Jersey , Peyton Manning for his whole career.”Rudolph says his dad’s league still keeps score by hand, but the internet has obviously
revolutionized the way many people follow their fantasy leagues and research
players.“There were certain things that, just, the internet was made for,” said
Rob Phythian, a co-founder of Fanball, which began producing the magazine
Fantasy Football Weekly in 1993. “The internet was made for league management,
right? It was a natural.”Phythian identified three turning points in the growth
of fantasy football.“The first one was, I think we can take some credit for
improving the content to make it more current. The second one’s league
management online,” Phythian said. “The third was the leagues and the big
marketing channels embracing fantasy. That came later, it didn’t come first. It
came, I would say, 2003ish, where they finally gave up on saying that it’s
gambling and understood it was like office pool on steroids, really.”Now that
sports betting is legal and operating in nearly a dozen states
http://www.thevikingslockerroom.com/authentic-riley-reiff-jersey , the next innovations may blur the line a bit between that and fantasy
sports.“What I think is coming next is we’re going to see hybrid
fantasy-gambling products in the marketplace,” said Paul Charchian, president of
the FSGA. “As the gambling companies realize that there’s 50 million Americans
that know and love fantasy, and that they want something that’s a player-based
outcome for sports betting, and so I think that’s a huge area of potential
growth.”The growth so far has already been substantial, and that’s evident every
weekend during the season. A sports bar on an NFL Sunday might include several
different kinds of fans. Some might be watching their favorite team, and some
might just be glancing from TV to TV, looking for their fantasy players. Some
might be trying to do both.“The generation before ours, you were a fan of
whatever team or wherever you lived or wherever you watched,” Rudolph said. “Now
people are growing up being just fans of players because they have them on their
fantasy team, and it’s amazing how fantasy has really changed the landscape in
sports.”
