NFL Draft: ESPN put cameras in college bars and it didn’t go well

The NFL draft and its endless hours of television coverage kicked off with the first round from Nashville on Thursday night.

ESPN decided to get creative with their coverage and made a decision to put cameras inside college bars in places where college football is huge, I guess thinking tons of fans would be in there watching the draft and cheering for guys from their school getting drafted.

There was only one problem, though. Most of the bars were pretty empty. Because while the NFL is king, I can’t imagine a lot of college kids are racing to bars to watch the draft, which can be a total bore.

Look at these lonely scenes:

Guessing nobody from SEC Network consulted with the ESPN NFL side to tell them that college towns don't really pay attention to the NFL pic.twitter.com/ILPFP67ttm

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) April 25, 2019

Absolute SCENES on ESPNs college bar cameras for the NFL draft pic.twitter.com/iupzxFfHHf

— Mike Persak (@MikeDPersak) April 25, 2019

Tried to do a story like this last year. It was a failure.

— Cody Stavenhagen (@CodyStavenhagen) April 25, 2019

how did espn not know that college bars don’t have nfl draft parties

— Josh Crutchmer (@jcrutchmer) April 26, 2019

No one goes to Varsity Club in Columbus unless it is game day.

— Corey Lower (@CoreyinOHIO) April 26, 2019

Especially Columbus when the @BlueJacketsNHL are playing their first ever 2nd rd playoff game

— 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰❽❹❻❽ 🏒 (@Andrew8468) April 26, 2019

Also just generally lol at going to some pub to watch the draft at 8pm. People are finishing assignments and taking naps so they can wake up and go to thirsty Thursday at 11:30 pm.

— Errrc (@eric_time) April 26, 2019

and here we have a sampling of cities that the NFL has roundly rejected as potential locations for teams

— Richado (@rich_roberts) April 26, 2019

ESPN: Take a look at these college bars to see their reactions when their players are drafted.
Everywhere but Tuscaloosa:#NFLDraft2019 pic.twitter.com/YoeDlmIcBI

— Fibonacci Five-Hole (@FatherFibonacci) April 25, 2019

Hilarious there are exactly 4 people at the college bars for the top prospects that ESPN set up.

— Randy Targaryean (@Flyers61) April 25, 2019

ESPN: “We are all over college bars across the NFL landscape here, waiting to get the reactions when their former college stars are drafted.” Sure looks packed. #NFLdraft pic.twitter.com/GpZibHW8u0

— Just A Kid From The Blo (@BrysonMoneyNo) April 25, 2019