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**Basel** · 04-28-2009, 04:10 PM

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NEW YORK – The NFL draft is big.

It could be getting bigger. Much bigger.

The NFL inched its annual draft toward prime time last weekend, starting the first round at 3 p.m. Dallas time. Next April, the NFL is considering giving the first round its own day – and a prime-time television slot.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday the league was discussing the possibility of staging the first round of the 2010 draft on a Thursday evening, the second and third rounds Friday evening and the final four rounds Saturday.

The event would remain the cable television domain of ESPN and the NFL Network.

"We're more confident now, with the timing of the first round, that it can fit a 3½-hour window," Goodell said. "We think it can be very appealing from a fan's standpoint and an audience standpoint.

"We'll talk to our teams about it. We have to see what impact this would have on them. But I think it has potential."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1183d684a.html

**Manster** · 04-28-2009, 07:07 PM

I do not think that would be a good idea. Many people that watch the draft devote the whole day to it. That is fine for the weekend but to start it on a Thursday a lot of people would be unable to do so.

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