An offseason turned upside down will continue to get odder. The NFL Players Association is putting into place a plan that would prevent each top college prospect from attending next month's draft in New York, according to multiple league sources. The NFLPA already has contacted 17 top prospects that ordinarily would have received an invitation to attend the draft and informed them not to go. Thus, when NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announces the name of the first player selected, the player will not walk on to the stage at Radio City Music Hall as has been the custom. And the player will not be there to do interviews with ESPN or NFL Network. The draft will go on, but not in the manner in which it has been conducted before. "As of right now, this is 100 percent happening," said one source familiar with the Players Association's thinking. "This is going down." Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/draft2011/news/story?id=6216135
wow this is going to get really annoying, like a couple who just bickers all the time, you eventually just stop hanging out with them.
