The Football Diner 2008 All-Time Draft What's It All About?
The annual collegiate draft is the NFL's great leveller, the mechanism by which the last can be first and the first can be last in America's greatest sports league. We all know what happened in this year's 2008 selection meeting but imagine if your favourite NFL team could take part in another, one-off supplemental draft that would let them pick any player from their past to plug into their current roster. This is your chance to cure your team's blues...
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Football Diner 2008 All-Time Draft Pick #1 - Miami The Diner spent a long time trying to find a reason not to go with the obvious choice here. Miami has lots of holes, in crucial areas, and maybe their biggest needs could be solved. How much would Parcells love a guy like Nick Buoniconti, who could step in and fill the hole left by Zach Thomas' departure?...
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Football Diner 2008 All-Time Draft Pick #2 - Rams The Rams have a storied history that can boast some serious Hall of Fame players at key positions of need for them, and this might be one of the toughest choices in the entire draft. It must be tempting for the Rams to bring back a guy like Marshall Faulk, perhaps the most complete back ever to play the game, but the Rams have bigger holes to fill...
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Football Diner 2008 All-Time Draft Pick #3 - Falcons Picking third in this All-Time Draft, the Atlanta Falcons are a team with some big holes to fill, but also with some talented past greats to choose from. Atlanta finds itself as one of several teams in the NFL this year that is building a franchise from the ground up. A few months ago the obvious choice for the Falcons would probably have been Steve Bartkowski...
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Review by Sam Monson: The Real All Americans
Author: Sally Jenkins In this book Sally Jenkins takes the reader on a journey. The Journey begins in the American West, in Indian Territory, in the heart of the expansion westward, and the conflict between the new American nation and the Native Americans forever being forced into tighter and tighter pockets of land...
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Review by Paul Hopkins: Never Die Easy
Author: Walter Payton with Don Yaeger This autobiography is a curiously constructed book, tinged with sadness because it was during writing this book that Walter Payton died at the age of 45. Therefore it has been filled out from the half complete memoirs of Payton with testimony from his family, friends and team-mates. What you ultimately end up with is a triumph...
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What's It All About?
The Diner spent a long time trying to find a reason not to go with the obvious choice here. Miami has lots of holes, in crucial areas, and maybe their biggest needs could be solved. How much would Parcells love a guy like Nick Buoniconti, who could step in and fill the hole left by Zach Thomas' departure?...
The Rams have a storied history that can boast some serious Hall of Fame players at key positions of need for them, and this might be one of the toughest choices in the entire draft. It must be tempting for the Rams to bring back a guy like Marshall Faulk, perhaps the most complete back ever to play the game, but the Rams have bigger holes to fill...
Picking third in this All-Time Draft, the Atlanta Falcons are a team with some big holes to fill, but also with some talented past greats to choose from. Atlanta finds itself as one of several teams in the NFL this year that is building a franchise from the ground up. A few months ago the obvious choice for the Falcons would probably have been Steve Bartkowski...
In this book Sally Jenkins takes the reader on a journey. The Journey begins in the American West, in Indian Territory, in the heart of the expansion westward, and the conflict between the new American nation and the Native Americans forever being forced into tighter and tighter pockets of land...
This autobiography is a curiously constructed book, tinged with sadness because it was during writing this book that Walter Payton died at the age of 45. Therefore it has been filled out from the half complete memoirs of Payton with testimony from his family, friends and team-mates. What you ultimately end up with is a triumph...