2020 NFL Draft in Las Vegas will have stage on water, players on boats

If you’ve ever wanted to see NFL Draft prospects riding on a boat to get to a stage in the Bellagio fountain, there’s fantastic news for you in Las Vegas.

The NFL Draft is an exciting time for fans. Particularly in the first round when many of the selections are in attendance, we get the first look at players holding their new colors and representing their new teams. And now we’ll get the added drama of seeing whether or not they fall off of a boat and into the Bellagio fountain.

No, seriously.

With the 2020 NFL Draft set to take place in Las Vegas on April 23-25, Arash Marka of the LA Times reported on Tuesday that the stage for the draft will be set up in the Bellagio fountain. If that wasn’t ridiculous enough, players who are in attendance will have to ride on a boat across the fountain to get to the stage.

If you’re having trouble picturing this, congratulations on not being able to think stupidly. But also, Markazi gave a look at what the setup for the 2020 NFL Draft will look like:

Unfortunately, the NFL decided not to venture too far into the completely absurd and have fans posted up inside the fountain. Instead, they will be viewing the draft from the Las Vegas Strip, which will reportedly be closed for the three-day event.

Look, it makes sense why the draft is in Las Vegas. With the NFL expanding to a new city as the Las Vegas Raiders will debut in 2020, they want to get their footprint started with one of their biggest events of the year. It also stands to reason that the league would want to make a big show of it.

Putting the stage on water and the players on boats is not the right way to go about that. There’s probably not any real danger of players (or Roger Goodell) falling into the fountain but it’s going to make an already lengthy event take even longer and, frankly, make the league the butt of many jokes for three days.

Then again, there is absolutely zero chance I’m not tuning in from the moment coverage of the 2020 NFL Draft starts to see how this turns out. So maybe they’re onto something.