I love posting this video every year.

For a little perspective about coverage of the NFL draft on ESPN and NFL Network, it’s always good to see how ESPN covered the NFL draft in 1981.

It was all so primitive. Check out the guy who had to turn on Pete Rozelle’s microphone.

A favorite part is a young Chris Berman getting reaction from a restaurant in New York, complete with the checkered table cloth.

All in all, the whole thing seemed like a pointless exercise. Who would want to watch coverage of something as boring as the NFL draft? Right?

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As for this year’s draft, Richard Deitsch of SI.com has the complete rundown.