More weekend thoughts

By Tim Cottrell
Sports Writer/Designer
Published: April 27, 2008

Well if you’re like me, you absolutely loved the NFL draft yesterday.

Not for any particular reason other than the fact that it got over in a reasonable amount of time.

A year after the first round took somewhere around seven hours, the entire first and second rounds got over in just a little more than five hours thanks to commissioner Roger Goodell’s new time limits.

It was glorious.

There’s something to be said for picks coming pretty quickly after each other and keeping the action flowing, and when that happens we also don’t have to listen to the ESPN talking heads quite as much (other than Kiper, he can talk as much as he wants as far as I’m concerned).

The Aarons 499 is starting right about now in Talladega, and the O-A News’ own Tom Peavy is there to provide coverage on this very blog. I’ll let him do most of the talking there, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say Tony Stewart takes the checkered flag in this one.

More coming later this afternoon.