I have thoughts on the people saying Green Bay hosting the draft is bad.

1. The people saying "Well where are fans going to stay?" are full of it. Remember when the draft was in downtown Nashville? Do you think any fans are getting hotel rooms in down town Nashville? They're non-existent. Anyone been to a Superbowl and stayed at a hotel within 20 minutes of the stadium? If you did, you were paying up the wazzu. All the hotel rooms close to the venue are swiped up by NFL personnel, the teams, media, corporate sponsors, etc. Fans stay in nearby cities and friend's couches. If you think I'm going to dress up like an idiot and stand around for hours just to hear names being called on stage, do you think I'm worried about having 1-2 bad nights of sleep? GTFOOH. Whenever a media person asks about "Where will the fans stay?" what they really mean is "Where am I going to stay?"

2. Green Bay has a population of about 100,000 and the city is built specifically around hosting large amounts of people on a semi-regular basis. Meanwhile, the city of Oshkosh has about 60,000 people and isn't anywhere near the touristy spot. Yet somehow the EAA Air Show takes place in Oshkosh every single year and attracts 600,000 at a minimum. If that city can do it on an annual basis, I'm sure Green Bay can get it done.

3. Is there legitimate concern about the logistics of the event as a whole? Absolutely. Green Bay is an outlier city among all american sports. There's no way around it. So the NFL can't conduct the draft in Green Bay the same way they do in other cities. But they, meaning the league, the Packers, and the city as a whole, have one chance to get this right. Because if they don't and the logistics of the event are a giant cluster, the NFL is never going to go back to Green Bay. We should all accept the fact that Green Bay will never host an owners meeting, or Pro Bowl, or a Super Bowl. But the city is getting to host the Draft and they need to get it right if they want to do it again.

So do I think it's important Green Bay gets this right? Yes I do. Do I think some of the concerns are a bit overblown? 1000%