NFL Draft
The NFL's annual entry draft (April or May). **49 corpus mentions** of *draft* spanning **2020-09-14 → 2025-04-25**, principally as a [[Fantasy football]] auxiliary topic but with enough standalone presence to constitute its own seasonal observance. The most-quoted single instance is [[Evan Bbbender]]'s **2020-10-25** *"Apparently the draft gods hated my draft"*.
NFL Draft
The NFL's annual entry draft (April or May). 49 corpus mentions of draft spanning 2020-09-14 → 2025-04-25, principally as a Fantasy football auxiliary topic but with enough standalone presence to constitute its own seasonal observance.
The NFL Draft in the Newfound Glory Hole refers to two distinct things:
- The Fantasy football draft held annually in late August or early September, which the chat treats as a cardinal seasonal event.
- The actual NFL Draft held annually in April or May, which the chat watches and discusses as a downstream input to the fantasy draft.
The chat distinguishes between them by context but uses the bare word draft for both.
Fantasy draft references
The chat's heaviest draft traffic is the fantasy-draft pre-season window. Evan Bbbender establishes the most-quoted single message on 2020-10-25, several weeks into the season:
"#2 on draft day" "Apparently the draft gods hated my draft" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-10-25
The construction the draft gods hated my draft is the chat's preferred attribution-of-misfortune for fantasy underperformance, recurs in roughly the same form in subsequent seasons, and is the encyclopedia's standard reference for any in-chat fantasy-draft post-mortem.
The Edelman question
A specific recurring Evan-driven post-draft tradition is the question of whether to retain or release Julian Edelman:
"I'll probably still draft him next year" — Evan Bbbender, 2020-12-15 "You can't draft Edelman next year" — Evan Bbbender, 2021-04-12
The corpus does not record whether Evan ultimately drafted Edelman in 2021. The encyclopedia infers, on the basis of the four-month gap between Evan's two messages, that he did not.
Real-NFL draft references
The chat's recorded real-NFL-draft viewings include:
- 2023-04-27 — Evan Bbbender to Cullen Conway: "Cullen is Maeve watching the draft today" — the only documented case in the corpus of asking after a chat member's child's draft-watching habits. (See Maeve.)
- 2025-04-25 (and the days surrounding it) — multiple Matt and Evan Bbbender real-time draft messages.
"Save draft"
Matt's 2020-12-10 observation about Donald Trump's tweet workflow is the chat's only attested draft usage that is not NFL-related:
"'When I'm trolling I really gotta hit save draft' followed by a bunch of silly tweets. It's a bit" — Matt, 2020-12-10
The line is preserved here for completeness; save draft in the chat is otherwise unattested.