The millions of NFL fans who have enjoyed the league’s traveling draft road show over the last decade can thank an unusual and unexpected source: the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. Yes, really.
For half a century, the NFL Draft called New York City home, and by 2014, the NFL’s draft extravaganza was a key fixture at Radio City Music Hall. But the only organization with more juice at Radio City than the NFL was the world-famous Rockettes dance troupe, and in 2014, the Rockettes kicked — pun very much intended — the NFL out of its traditional late-April draft date into May.