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NFL Draft Offers Relief From the Culture Wars
Despite our differences, the NFL draft brings Americans together (even if you don’t watch football).
While giant advertisements for Bud Light illuminated the night and tens of thousands of cameras clicked away furiously, fans bedecked head-to-toe in the colors, logos, and insignia of their favorite NFL teams reveled in the pageantry, the anticipation, and pomp and circumstance of the annual NFL draft last night.
“That’s my boy!” screamed Detroit Lions fans ecstatically into press cameras as the Lions selected their second-round draft pick, linebacker Jack Campbell.
“Campbell had 128 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, and two interceptions for Iowa in 2022 and he won the Dick Butkus Award as the nation’s top linebacker,” reported ABC Sports last night. “He’s the second Iowa defensive player taken in the first round as Lukas Van Ness went to the Packers with the 13th overall pick.”
The newest Philadelphia Eagle, dressed to the nines in a pink suit with purple accents, wept openly and unabashedly as he was presented with an official Eagles hat and ushered into a new era of his young life by cheers and wild applause.
“The Philadelphia Eagles select Georgia Bulldogs defensive tackle Jalen Carter in Round 1 of the 2023 NFL Draft with the №9 overall pick (via a trade with the…