Green Bay Packers Draft Recap

Folks, I hated it too. Until I didn’t.

Watching the draft was like watching a movie you know you aren’t enjoying, but then because you’re already too far in you can’t stop and by the end you kinda like it. That’s how I felt watching 1998’s Out of Sight Sunday night.

It’s a movie about a charming bank robber, George Clooney, who falls for a not-very-believable U.S. Marshall (and Super Bowl halftime entertainer), Jennifer Lopez. Here’s the premise: they meet in the trunk of a car after Clooney breaks out of prison. During the trunk time they find feelings for each other, because why not, and then Clooney spends the rest of the movie trying to a) get with J Lo and b) get away/stay away from the law. But Jennifer is the law! She tracks Clooney—as a Marshall and lover—as he tries to steal raw diamonds from a dude he met in prison. Late in the film during the diamond job, J Rod sides with the badge over love and brings George to justice. However, she sets him up to ride from Detroit (where he was apprehended) to Florida (where the jail is he escaped from) with a notorious prison-escape artist (because she WANTS him to escape again)—AND Lopez is in the van that’s carrying the criminals. It’s not good, but after watching for an hour, it felt right to play it out and see what happened.

Similarly, I watched the Packers draft and like many, I mourned the loss of what felt like wasted picks. But I kept watching, following the plot, seeing what happened to the characters. Then, like the mostly bad movie I mostly watched…