OT: What is your prep/set up for Draft Night?

[steelclan]

It is a big night fellas ya need to prep and have the set up ready to go. Here is my insanity:

1. Make sure wife and child are fully engaged elsewhere. Options:

A. "Babe go out and see a movie with the kiddo?"
B. "Babe I bet you and the kiddo would love to go out for Pizza?"
C. "Babe I'll fucking pay for an entire season of Outlander."
D. Desperation/last resort move: "Ok Babe take the damn plastic and buy tons of useless crap from Sur Le Table and whatever crappy clothes boutique."

2. Have adult beverages chilled and ready to go.
3. Put tape over Dog's mouths.
4. Warn Neighbors they may hear screaming and not to call the Coppers.
5. Access to a comfortable and well stocked bathroom.
6. Have a favorite Steeler victory on tap in case the draft makes you weep.
7. Pray Ravens draft a bum.
8. Laugh at Browns no matter what they do.
9. Make sure the "magic" brownies are on hand for the Nirvana pick
10. Track media dunderheads verbal pauses, they include winners like: now let me tell ya, if it falls this way, erms etc. The point? A verbal pause is typically a default word or phrase folks repeat again, again and again whenever they dont know what the fuck to say. It bugs the crap out of me. Yes I need help.

Extra: Have midget porn ready in case the Steeler nostalgia game doesnt cut it.

[bradshaw2ben]

Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored
uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls... When your life gets complicated, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

[steelclan]

Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored
uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls... When your life gets complicated, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

You forgot Opium cakes.

[Legacy User]

Put baby down at 6:30.
Clean up house.
Make dinner.
Watch a show on Netflix.
Go to bed.
Wake up next morning, make coffee, and read about what picks the teams made.

[FC]

1.Prepare to listen to bitching and complaining over the pick
2.Smoke a bong load
3.Cook breakfast
4.Listen to bitching and complaining over the presumed pick
5.Smoke a bong load
6.Get on Fury...See whats going on.
7.Read the moron experts about the draft
8.Prepare some lunch
9,Take nap.
10. Wait for phone call telling me the Steelers are going to fuck up the pick (Kevin Johnson is this years Ryan Shazier...Who will the Steelers reach for like last year Dri Archer)
11.Smoke bong load as I listen to the bitching
12.Begin cooking food for an army of a 1000
13. Check social media think to myself...Self some of these people are a waste of oxygen
14. View porn...Keep an eye out for ball and chain
15.Get tissues clean up
16.Bong loads
17. 2nd nap
18. Wait for ball and chain to get home act like I had a busy day
19.Turn on TV get back on Fury

[steelclan]

Put baby down at 6:30.
Clean up house.
Make dinner.
Watch a show on Netflix.
Go to bed.
Wake up next morning, make coffee, and read about what picks the teams made.

There is no room for sanity!

[jeemie]

15.Get tissues clean up

Too...much...information.

[jeemie]

I'll try and guesstimate when pick 22 will come around and catch up online.

See no point in watching a TV show which is made up of pundits waxing full of hot air and hearing a list of names read out.

[Legacy User]

Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls... When your life gets complicated, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

This is bat country.

[Legacy User]

15.Get tissues clean up

Too...much...information.

People clean up with tissues after masturbating? Weak sauce... literally.

[jeemie]

Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored
uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls... When your life gets complicated, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

Thank you Hunter S. Thompson.

[FC]

Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway.
If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again.
Never give your real name. If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look.
Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand.
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

[Legacy User]

I'll be working, so I'll be keeping an eye on the Twitter or some online draft tracker while I work. I should be done before the Steelers are on the clock, so I'll turn on the TV and flip between ESPN and NFL Network trying to find the least annoying draft coverage team.

[Nick79]

Put baby down at 6:30.
Clean up house.
Make dinner.
Watch a show on Netflix.
Go to bed.
Wake up next morning, make coffee, and read about what picks the teams made.

Do anything else besides watching the draft, watch something else on TV, and flip over to NFLN during commercials and if the Steelers are on the clock, stick with it, if that doesn't fit my desire as to when to go to sleep, read about it in the morning.

[Stosh-67]

I'll try and guesstimate when pick 22 will come around and catch up online.

See no point in watching a TV show which is made up of pundits waxing full of hot air and hearing a list of names read out.

Giving final exam in class tonight ..........
will watch draft ticker on computer........

about what time do we think the Steelers will be on the clock?

[bradshaw2ben]

don't forget to join the chat room

[FC]

I would guess around 11 PM EST

[Legacy User]

I have 9 buddies coming over. Just installed a new Sharp 80" tv.

Hoping I see Peters putting on a Steelers hat and ignoring the Roger as he tries to give one of those extremely awkward hugs.

Fuck you Roger you ginger dickhead.

[Legacy User]

1 Breakfast- Sour Diesal, Chechnyan(vanilla shake, everclear, espresso liquer), Skoal, brother.

2 Start cooking draft vittles. This year it's NOLA rice- Big box zatterains dirty rice mix, 2 cups diced trinity (celery,onion, carrot), 1lbs Andouille sausage, 1 lbs shrimp, 1 lbs bay scallops, big squirt sarachi, dried pablanos, smoked chili powder, 2 cloves garlic, chicken broth. Directions as on box, except chicken stock replaces water, sausage, trinity, garlic, seasoning, dried peppers go in with rice. saute shrimp and scallops in butter about 5 minutes, mix in once rice has cooked.

3 Get on the phone with other displaced Steeler fans from back in the day, play who is dumber, Colbert or Tomlin, debate the pick

4 NOW- fuck around on message boards.

5 walk the damn dog

6 Sour Diesal revistited.

7 Draft coverage, captions on while I rock out.

[bradshaw2ben]

I have 9 buddies coming over. Just installed a new Sharp 80" tv.

Hoping I see Peters putting on a Steelers hat and ignoring the Roger as he tries to give one of those extremely awkward hugs.

Fuck you Roger you ginger dickhead.

he would forever endear himself to Steelers fans everywhere

[Legacy User]

Just installed a new Sharp 80" tv.

Dear lord...

[Orangesteel]

Is the televised draft the single biggest indication of how much of a circus/spectacle the modern NFL has become? I think the combine is a bigger indication, but Jesus Christ the draft is a close second. The NFL truly is a year round behemoth.

[stillthere]

Go see Age of Ultron at the Uptown Theater at 7pm. walk across the street get a beer and watch Steelers pick and hockey highlights or end of 3rd period on TV

[Legacy User]

Just installed a new Sharp 80" tv.

Dear lord...

No basement. 2 teenage children. Made a theatre room for them and their friends.

And for dad on draft night and Sundays...

[StillerInCT]

1.) Get out of work
2.) Take the subway back to Queens
3.) Pack bags
4.) Hop in the car as fast as possible
5.) Drive 2.5 hours up to CT
6.) Meet my buddies at the bar (Giants fans)
7.) Order beer (or bourbon)
8.) Laugh at their pick
9.) Time the distance between when we're on the clock and when the pick is announced
10.) Laugh that it took less than 1 minute
11.) Get this WTF look on my face as it's announced
12.) Go home.

[Nick79]

Is the televised draft the single biggest indication of how much of a circus/spectacle the modern NFL has become? I think the combine is a bigger indication, but Jesus Christ the draft is a close second. The NFL truly is a year round behemoth.

I think it's on the decline, it is for me! I used to go to an all day long draft cookout before they ruined it and made a 3 day thing, and I pay less and less attention ever since.

Plus the other sports now televise their drafts too. The NBA draft is pretty popular and with only 2 rounds fits in one night.

But the combine is the absolute most ridculous thing ever! I can't believe anybody has the desire to watch it for more than 10 seconds?

[lifelongsteel]

Record it all on both ESPN and NFL Network. Fast forward to steelers picks to see what they say about them. Follow on radio or internet live when i can.

The 10 minute per pick for the first round is so brutal, I almost want to hug the podium runners.

21 picks at 10 minutes per equals 3.5 hours, so the steelers will be on the clock at 8:30 or so here on the west coast. Don't know how you east coasters do it.

[Steelcody7]

I can't do a whole lot since the smug fuck Goodell moved the draft to a week night.

I have to get up no later than 6:30 am EST M-F and this dick moves the draft. Saturday and Sunday was amazing and ruined by the clown.

[Nick79]

I can't do a whole lot since the smug fuck Goodell moved the draft to a week night.

I have to get up no later than 6:30 am M-F and this dick moves the draft. Saturday and Sunday was amazing and ruined by the clown.

I have friends, a couple, husband and wife Steelers fans, who had a cookout for the Saturday draft every year for at least 10-15 years straight, our kids grew up playing in the backyard, one Saturday every April! Beer, BBQ, fun! They'd have about 30-40 people over, 75% Steelers fans, a few Ravens fans (we're in Baltimore), there was a Raiders fan (friend of theirs), Eagles fans, Giants fans, everybody in their gear! Every year. Then Goodell moves it to Thursday Night, pfffffffffffffffft! Gone! Ruined a great annual event.

[fractalsteel]

Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored
uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls... When your life gets complicated, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Vegas with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

Window paine from the late 70's-great visuals, no stomach issues and a clear head 24 hours later.

Setup the TV's to watch hockey playoffs and listen to the draft picks. I don't have to see Ginger except when the Steelers pick and hopefully I get to watch the Rangers/Caps beat the snot out of each other.