What happens if the

National Football League doesn’t play a single game next season?

All of these 2011 draft picks that are chosen today will have to

basically sit out a year before starting their NFL

careers.

I want to know what will happen with the 2012

draft. Will a draft even occur? How would the order be decided? I

turned to the Internet and didn’t get very far.

One idea is to keep the same order as this year,

which I think would be a pretty horrible idea. The next idea was to

leave it in the hands of computers. Simulate the entire season,

including preseason as well as the playoffs and go off of that.

Considering Peyton Hillis could be on the cover of this year’s

Madden, I’m all for that. “The Madden Curse” might finally fall

through.

Even if the computers simulate Hillis getting hurt,

he wouldn’t actually be injured and thus still running over

linebackers the following season. What computer is going to

simulate the Browns having an overly successful season? I’m

thinkin’ the simulated season to figure out the 2012 draft might

not be such a bad idea.

Another possibility I stumbled upon was the idea of

a completely random draft order. Maybe Cleveland can get lucky

again and grab the next LeBron James of football. Maybe Cleveland

will get the hero it deserves for the team that needs it the

most.

The last idea I came across was to simply pick up

and sign the available players and forget about the draft.

In the end, I honestly don’t care. Yeah, it would

be great if the Browns made out like bandits and got the top

players for two consecutive years but I honestly just want to watch

football. I want to watch Joshua Cribbs return kicks; I wanna see

Colt McCoy throwing touchdown passes to either A.J Green or Julio

Jones while Hillis is leaping over defenders.

Baseball is my favorite sport but there is

something about getting up with the sun, listening to “Cleveland

Rocks” blaring and tailgating in the muni lot before the Pittsburgh

game.

Let’s quit these silly preseason antics and figure

out the NFL. We’re all ready to turn Cleveland football around.