Bik's Week 8 Thursday Pick: Draft Day Drinking Game

When a team lifts its championship trophy that closes the final chapter of another great season in any sport, and one team’s fan base rejoices and celebrates – countless others are left to wonder “What If?”

You’re left with a deep void that can’t be filled until a certain day. You’ve lost hope – and there’s a certain day in a leagues calendar that is able to fill that void. Draft Day.

Draft Day is set up so you can irrationally begin to fall in love with players when they first enter the league and give you hope for the upcoming season. Or of course if your team drafts a player you don’t like, make you wait for impending doom. If you’re like me, you love draft day. LOVE draft day.

L-O-V-E DRAFT DAY!

The limitless potential that comes with the event is what’s exciting about it. Anything is possible. Trades can happen to move up or down in the draft, trades can happen to acquire current players, or a team can just stand pat and usher in a new face to the franchise. Teams look at their depth charts and the depth charts of every team and figure out a way to manage their roster best for the upcoming season. It springs hope annually onto fans hoping that THIS IS THE YEAR their team wins. Draft Day also presents a great chance to have some drinks. So we continue with The Extra Period’s Sports Drinking Games: Draft Day.

The Setup:

The set-up for the Draft Day drinking game is a bit more complicated than some other drinking games. You need to do some major prep work.

• First get a draft board (or a piece of paper with all the teams on it) and have the correct order of the 1^st round on it.
• Do your own mock draft.
• For your choice of alcohol, you will need 1 bottle of your favourite hard alcohol and also a regular drink (beer, wine, mixed).

The Rules:

Some of the rules change pending on the sports you are watching but they will be outlined below.

The game in itself is rather simple. You simply follow along with the draft to see if it matches your mock draft. If a team selects a player that you had in your mock draft in the correct slot, then you don’t drink. This is also true if a team trades up and selects a player in the corresponding slot. You don’t need to get the player, the draft spot and team correct, just the player and draft spot.

However – if you get it wrong, you add 1 second onto every draft slot you were wrong on. For instance:

If you had Player X being drafted 12^th overall and he slides in the draft and gets picked 26^th – you are required to drink your regular drink for 14 seconds. This also applies the reverse way if the player gets picked before the spot you had him going.

Now the bonus drinks:

• For every trade done DURING the draft - Take a sip of your regular drink.
• For every commercial break the broadcast takes during the top 10 picks ONLY - Take a sip of your regular drink.
• Anytime a GM or Head Coach says “This player was at the top our draft board” or some equivalent – Take a sip of your regular drink.
• Anytime an analyst calls a player a “good character guy” or “a head-case” – Take a sip of your regular drink.

Sport Specific Drinks:

• In Basketball the key-phrase we’re looking for is “Wing-Span”. If you hear that – take a shot of your hard alcohol.
• In Football the key-phrase we’re looking for is “Complete Football Player”. You don’t hear it as often as you’d think for a football draft, but with the traits associated with positions not all players are “Complete Football Players”. So if you hear that – take a shot of your hard alcohol.
• In Hockey the key-phrase we’re looking for is “Competitiveness”. If you hear that – take a shot of your hard alcohol.

For the key-phrases, only consume alcohol if they are being spoken in a positive sense. We’re not going to tarnish bonus drinks for a player who has a poor wing-span, isn’t a complete football player, or lacks competitiveness.

There you have it – enjoy your next draft with The Extra Period Draft Day Drinking Game.

And as always – PLEASE drink responsibly. Thursday’s Week 8 Pick is below. Home team in CAPS.

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Buccaneers (+7) over VIKINGS

The Bucs didn’t cover last week (and lost the game) on a particularly egregious call by the officials after Mike Williams was SHOVED out of bounds and came back into play to catch the game-tying TD vs. the Saints. Somehow it wasn’t a penalty and the game ended on that weird play. I think they lose this game, but Josh Freeman is the king of the backdoor cover, and he’s being spotted a TD here.

Last Week: 7-6

Season: 52-51-1