NFL Network Set Passes Time By Making Fun of Each Other

As happens on the last Saturday in April every year, I spent the day on my couch watching Roger Goodell and Ray Anderson read names off a card. The NFL Draft is the biggest event of the football offseason, even though it involves a bunch of guys in suits sitting around a set telling us about players who won't see the field for another four months.

The spectacle has gotten so big it gets wall-to-wall coverage on two networks. I'm partial to the NFL Network over ESPN because I have a crush on Mike Mayock, and because I couldn't stand the awkwardness of a Mel Kiper-Todd McShay slap fight.

There are going to be lulls in six hours of live television, especially when there's no action to cover. So it's not all that surprising that NFL Network crew would go to their late-day, bread-and-butter time-waster: clowning the new guy through the magic of moving pictures. In this case, the target -- at least initially -- was Jon Gruden, who sounded punch-drunk after spending all day at Radio City Music Hall covering his first draft as part of the media.

Best part: Rich Eisen on Mike Mayock: "Now you look like Mel Kiper!" Classic.