If you want to make the day Simon Clancy, call Mel Goalkeeper Manchester. "He's always been my hero," said Clancy, a producer for BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. "I grew up in person."
Of all the people who cover the NFL Draft this weekend, Clancy has one of the more interesting task: He will analyze the first round of the BBC offices in Manchester, England as part of the coverage of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra on selectapalooza NFL.
Gosh, the BBC covers the NFL Draft? Yes, they do.
Of all the people who cover the NFL Draft this weekend, Clancy has one of the more interesting task: He will analyze the first round of the BBC offices in Manchester, England as part of the coverage of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra on selectapalooza NFL.
Gosh, the BBC covers the NFL Draft? Yes, they do.
Host Darren Fletcher, football Popular presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live, and Canada's sports-talk Greg Brady will be on Radio City Music Hall in New York while Clancy followed the coverage of the UK. The trio will live on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra beginning at 7 pm ET (midnight in Manchester) and remain in the air through the conclusion of the opening round (Friday morning in Manchester). As Sirius NFL Radio and ESPN Radio, they will analyze every pick, grab interviews with players and team executives, and analyze the overall concept. Unlike entities, there will be no ads. These two English (Fletcher and Clancy) and one Canadian (Brady) to analyze the American non-sports sporting events.
"There's no question it is a fraction of the audience we play for the NCAA to know the game and have seen most of the players to the most," said Brady, who has been called the NFL for the BBC since 2006 and is a respected sports host Sportsnet Toronto Fan 590 , where he and Lang co-host Jim "Brady and Lang in the Morning."
"As a result, we can not pound the NCAA statistics for the audience because we are going to North American audiences. Let's face it, even if Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III gives statistics by identical, a scenario that they play in, the crimes they lead, and conferences in which they play very differently. We will definitely show if we think a GM reached on a player or if someone had taken a high that has injury concerns, but get in the NCAA-wise too will only alienate the audience too much. "
Of course, Clancy NFL there are beginners. He has written columns for the draft South Florida Sun Sentinel for many years and has studied the draft for a quarter century. He said he watched thousands of hours of footage of college football and a devout reader of all things NFL Draft. Clancy is the sole full-time employee BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, a digital sister station to BBC Radio 5 Live, which aired live sports including Premier League, cricket, Olympic sports, MLB baseball and NFL.
"People might be surprised that this guy is British and watches college football, but growing as a Dolphin fan, I would spend the evening listening to the NFL on Armed Forces Radio Network," said Clancy, who joined the BBC Radio 5 Live Sport last November and has worked at the BBC since 1994. "When it comes to the draft, they'll mention picks and sometimes the radio will fade in and out so I have to buy the International Herald Tribune in the morning to find out the results.
This is the second year of BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra will cover the draft, and Clancy expects about 400,000 to 500,000 listeners will hear live, with people downloading additional replay on BBC I-player the next morning and all weekend. If interest is evident enough, his crew could join next season, goalkeeper for an extra day of coverage. "I'm a big NFL fan, and the draft is something that I find interesting because of something we do not have to come here," said Clancy. "I knew I would like to extend it to Friday so that we can do the second and third round as well."
