- AP Photo/John Raoux
- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell
I believe I speak not only for myself when I declare that Thursday night at 7 PM can’t come too soon. At that time—prime time on ESPN—the NFL draft will finally begin and the sports pages of America will suspend their frolic through the enchanted forest of what if?
Meanwhile, the Sun-Times, which on Thursday offered a mere five stories on the draft, dabbled in numerology. Fourteen has been a mystical number on Chicago sports pages in recent days, the Bears having the 14th pick in the draft’s first round. The number’s been examined every which way, and on Thursday the Sun-Times looked back at how the 14th picks over the past decade have worked out for their teams.
