The 2002 Draft was held on Sat Aug 24th, 2002 at XMRadio headquarters in Washington, DC, in the Patsy Cline conference room. We had 2 owners that had to be on conference call from remove locations, Nags Head, NC and parts unknown, VA. This in itself was a challenge; techies trying to use a telephone are always dangerous. Here are the picks:

2002 Draft by Draft pick
2002 Draft by Owner

We were not sure if the draft would go ahead as scheduled because our draft host, Jeff was paged on his way into the office, with an "Enterprise Wide" Remedy failure. Come to find out that the "failure" was the backups running longer than normal and quickly the draft began.

As the returning champion Jeff was given a special treat by Steve, who proceeded to pull out porno magazines and pass them around the table. Most GM's tried to ignore the magazines and quickly pass them back to Steve, but Jeff instead slipped one into his bag to keep. Steve was annoying as hell by opening up the magazines and holding up the pictures over his head in a cheap attempt to distract his fellow competitors before their picks.

Julian was awarded the first pick and he proceeded to shock everyone by selecting Kurt Warner over Marshal Faulk with the first pick. Steve with the second pick, could not get to the board fast enough to select Faulk and thanked Julian for such a wonderful gift in the first round. This would not be the only shocker in the first round, oh no, the best was still to come! When it was Jeff's turn to pick the 8th pick in round 1 and the first pick in round 2 he did the unthinkable! He selected Bret Favre followed by Drew Bledsoe! What 2 QB's with the first 2 picks? He sat down dazed and confused and said, "We don't start 2 QB's", and then asked if he could change his last pick.
"HELL NO!" rang out from the other owners,"you have already put it on the board and sat down." Dale quickly went to the board and picked Randy Moss. Jeff was heard mumbling later in the draft, "Man I blew it, can we start over?"

Later on in the draft Greg was heard to say, "OK, new rule, no porno at next year's draft". Dale responded, "It is ok as long as we don't play with the donuts." Bill was at the beach and we all were jealous and kept asking him what he was doing, was it sunny, etc. One time he replied, "I am buck naked!". Dale again had the quick quip, "So are we!". No, we were not naked!

We all decided after the draft that it was a bad idea to let Jeff, aka Columbo, pick at the end of the draft and have two picks in a row. At one time he was heard to say, "What took so long?" Well Jeff, what took so long was you taking 5-10 minutes to make picks! Steve could not complain too much because he pulled a Columbo a few times taking a few extra minutes to look at magazines, or decide which player to take as well!

Hopefully Dale's pictures will come out well and we will have them to post soon!

Check out the power rankings of this year's draft:

Until next year, WHIIPPPEEEKAAAYYAAA Mr. Falcon!