{"id":2560,"date":"2026-05-20T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/jim-souhan-hosting-the-nfl-draft-is-a-big-deal-for-minneapolis-it-didnt-used-to-be\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:33:33","slug":"jim-souhan-hosting-the-nfl-draft-is-a-big-deal-for-minneapolis-it-didnt-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/jim-souhan-hosting-the-nfl-draft-is-a-big-deal-for-minneapolis-it-didnt-used-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Souhan: Hosting the NFL draft is a big deal for Minneapolis. It didn&#8217;t used to be."},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8211; The NFL draft will be held in downtown Minneapolis around U.S. Bank Stadium in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/john-romano-yes-the-rays-need-a-new-stadium-but-thats-only-part-of-the-story\/\">John Romano: Yes, the Rays need a new stadium. But that\u2019s only part of the story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Of all the big events Minnesota has hosted so well over the years, this will be one of them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The draft is a spectacle for the speculative.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>There will be NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell becoming a human Snuggie, wrapping himself around every prospect who comes on stage.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>There will be a massive media presence, and a massive crowd of people, many of whom will scream and cheer when their favorite team takes a left guard from a small school they couldn&#8217;t locate on a map.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The draft &#8211; our draft &#8211; will attract fans from all over the country, if not the world, filling our streets with those wondering whether that safety from Kent State running a 4.3 at the combine would be the ideal sixth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Like everything else in the NFL multiverse, the draft has grown into an entertainment hub all its own. This is a league that can turn its schedule release into a weeklong drama that drives ratings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me of the first NFL draft I covered, at the Vikings&#8217; Winter Park facility in Eden Prairie, in 1990. Which was not a spectacle.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The stars of that show: One dog-eared draft pamphlet, no internet and a bag of chips.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The draft was popular then, but it didn&#8217;t draw hundreds of thousands of fans. Mock drafts were done by two cult figures, Mel Kiper and Joel Buchsbaum. Kiper was turning himself into a TV star. Buchsbaum was a reclusive writer for Pro Football Weekly who would mail you his draft preview if you sent him a check.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The internet was not a thing yet, so there weren&#8217;t 100 new mock drafts every day to peruse. Most mock drafts were assembled by a couple of local sportswriters, and ran the week of the draft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>I was so excited to cover that draft in 1990 that I drank gallons of coffee in the morning \u2026 and in the early afternoon. Problem was, the Vikings had traded their top draft picks for Herschel Walker, so myself and a couple of other reporters watched television in the dank basement of Winter Park while we waited for the Vikings to make their selections.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/mike-bianchi-why-magic-fans-should-root-for-jamahl-mosley-to-succeed-in-new-orleans\/\">Mike Bianchi: Why Magic fans should root for Jamahl Mosley to succeed in New Orleans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>When they did, legendary personnel gurus Frank Gilliam and Jerry Reichow walked down the steps, sat at a well-used table and told us, bluntly, whether they thought they had found any players who might help the team.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>We did get to snack on a bag of chips.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Back then, the NFL was still a mom-and-pop league. Most of the teams were owned by local families. The stadiums were mostly awful, the fields were sometimes worse, and the draft &#8211; like the schedule release, the scouting combine and training camp practices &#8211; had yet to become a big deal. The league would shut down for weeks, if not months, during the summer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>At some point in the \u201890s, the league realized that NFL fans were insatiable. That&#8217;s why today we have games all over the globe, sold-out training camp practices, full coverage of the combine, schedule-release parties and, yes, a &#8220;draft season&#8221; that begins in September and runs through late April. For true draftniks, there is always a mock draft to read if you&#8217;re bored on Memorial Day or the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Because we have so much to offer in the Twin Cities, and because we in flyover country lack self esteem, we tend to be very good at staging big events.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>As the sign at the 1987 World Series in the Metrodome said: &#8220;We like it here.&#8221; So there.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>We are considered a middling market, yet we have the WNBA, NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB, Class AAA baseball, PWHL, Big Ten, MLS, a PGA Tour stop that will feature Scottie Scheffler and a women&#8217;s golf major this year. There&#8217;s women&#8217;s soccer, volleyball and football, and winter sports and here let me apologize if I left out your favorite local team or sports.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got it going on, and the people who organize and attract our big events almost always receive high grades.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Out of respect for this moment in Twin Cities sports history, I won&#8217;t point out that the NFL draft is mostly a bad reality TV show. Fans get emotionally attached to people they don&#8217;t know who may not even make their team.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>None of which matters to the hundreds of thousands of fans who will travel to Minnesota and cheer at the draft like they&#8217;re watching the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/michigan-to-limit-how-many-bucks-hunters-can-shoot-in-the-future\/\">Michigan to limit how many bucks hunters can shoot in the future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>This is a good time to follow the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>This is an even better time to be the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright 2026 Tribune Content Agency. All Rights Reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>This story was originally published <span>May 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM<span>.<\/span><\/span><!-- --><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8211; The NFL draft will be held in downtown Minneapolis around U.S. Bank Stadium in 2028. O&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jim Souhan: Hosting the NFL draft is a big deal for Minneapolis. 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