Crazy Fans Camp Out for NFL Draft Tickets

The Ferocity with which NFL fans follow their beloved sport never ceases to amaze.

One of the few NFL events fans can attend for free is the NFL Draft, which Radio City Music Hall in New York hosted on Saturday, April 26. The thousand or so free tickets are handed out on a first-come basis.

The first fan, Billy Walsh from Rockaway Beach, N.Y., got in line at 2:30 p.m. on Friday afternoon. He would wait until 10 a.m. the next morning to get a free wristband that would allow him to get into the draft that started at 3 p.m. At it's peak, the line for tickets stretched three long city blocks and included an estimated 2,500 people -- some dressed and some painted in their team colors. All this for an event in which the NFL commissioner simply reads each team's pick into a microphone and walks off stage?

"To us, it's like our Super Bowl," said Walsh, a San Francisco 49ers fan. "To us it's important."

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[Cantbetouched11]

@tigerdasavage you are a rock

[tigerdasavage]

so the draft is on a thursday. if i camp out at let's say 9 pm the night before, i wait 13 hours. correct?

i want to know because i might miss my senior prom in houston to go to the draft

[torontobills]

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[dejonal]

The first time I ever saw a Cowboys fan and a Eagles fan that close without fighting, nice to see they got along.

[billsyanks08]

HAHA thats me at the 54 second mark sleeping. BTW you dont wait in line 3 days, more like 6 hours and they changed it all now. Now its only a couple hours and you can leave once you get your tickets.

[navarro49ers]

GO NINERS!!!

[AUgrad00]

Dear God waiting in line for three days for the freakin NFL draft? I will pass. I have ESPN.