Every Football Fans Fantasy! Draft Day!

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2019)

If you are a football fan, NFL not MLS sorry, you must watch "Draft Day". It must be one of the most exciting, heart pounding, teeth grinding sports movies I have watched in a long time! "Remember the Titans" level. The story line is great, the drama feels real and just an all-around feel-good movie.
It THE day. Draft day, to me, is the second most important day in football. The Superbowl being the first. This is the day your team decides its future. The gamble of your first pick on any available player that can make or break your franchise. What a rush!
Sonny Weaver Jr. (Kevin Costner), is the General Manager for the Cleveland Browns. With the major pressure of the draft, after a mediocre year, there is more problems in his life than just the draft. The owner, Frank Langella, wants to make a splash in the draft. Well Sonny has his own ideas. Add that along with the new coach and it's a perfect combination of someone's feeling being hurt! What do you do? Go with your boss or please the coach of the team? What about your own thoughts on the player you want? Well today is the day. Crunch time!
My favorite part of the movie is how realistic the draft chess match is. Trading picks, trading players, and making moves! That what excites me about the draft. When that clock starts, will you be ready? With ten minutes given to each team, the first round of the draft has to be heart stopping for some teams.
What makes this movie so great is how easily relatable it is. Even though these are people of power and money, you feel connected in the real life struggles they face. Even the players being drafted come from so many different backgrounds. I can only imagine what it would be like to sit at the table at the draft as a player waiting to hear your name called.