For those of us who for weeks have been looking to the NFL draft as a desperately needed diversion from coronavirus news, Thursday’s opening minutes of the draft program were a perfect tonic.

The NFL institutionally often is crass and overbearing, with Super Bowls in particular prone to hype, glitz, and trashiness. But, every so often, it gets the zeitgeist right, and Thursday’s opening segments certainly did so.

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