Continuing our series on the art of NFL Draft Party Hosting, here is the final installment: Games!

Adult versions:

• Mock It

1. Each player does a mock draft that includes trades.
2. They also pick who they think will be the last player in the green room, which will act as a tiebreaker, if needed.
3. Scoring:

5pts – trade with both teams correct

3pts – trade with one team correct

1pt – draft pick correct

½ pt – position of draft pick correct (only applicable if pick itself was wrong)

• NFL Names

1. Split into 2 teams.
2. Every player writes down 5 people or characters.  Make it a requirement that 2 or 3 have to be NFL related.
3. There are 3 rounds.  Every round, teams alternate sending people up to pick blindly from a hat holding all the names.
4. Each person must make their team say the name they pick.  1 point for a correct guess.
5. The round ends when all the names are gone from the hat.
6. Rounds:

1^st round (30 secs) – No one can say the name or any part of the name.  No rhyming.  Anything else goes.

2^nd round (45 secs) – Act the name out.  No words and no sounds.

3^rd round (30 secs) – You can only say one word.  It cannot be part of the name itself.

• Draft for Draft

1. Drink whenever there is a trade.
2. Each player picks a conference.  They must drink when a team selects someone from that conference.
3. Each player selects a potential draftee.  They must drink whenever the draftee is shown more than 3 times in the green room.

Kid activities:

• Draft Match

1. You’ll need poster board and all 32 team logos.   Have an extra Bengals and Patriots logo because they are each drafting twice in the 1^st round.
2. Label the poster board with numbers 1-32.  Have the kids tape the team logos on the poster board, matching them to the spot they pick in the draft.
3. For older kids, label the poster board with NFL positions.  Have them tape the team logos on the poster board, matching them to positions those teams need.

• Dress to Impress

1. You’ll need your old NFL jerseys and hats.  If you don’t have any, pick some up at Goodwill.  You’ll also need a suit (because someone has to play the Commish)
2. Pretend the kids are 2011 NFL draftees.
3. First, give them a call and act as the owner or coach of the team that’s drafting them.
4. Next, announce their selection, have them enter from the “green room” and take their picture with Goodell.

• Luck of the Draft

1. You’ll need the game of Twister.
2. Spin the wheel in order to “predict” the draft.
3. Each color is a different team of your choice and the kids represent a draftee.
4. Play it up – tell them, “The Cowboys want you!  Right hand blue.”
5. The child that lasts the longest gets to choose the team they go to, but it has to be a team that they are touching with a hand or foot.

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Sara lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and chow chow mix, Theodore. She is an avid sports fan and currently works as an Associate Director at the NFL Network on the shows Total Access and GameDay Final. Sara knew since she was a teenager that she wanted to work in sports and has covered such events as the Olympics, College World Series, NCAA Football Division II Championship and of course, the NFL Draft, Hall of Fame weekend, NFL Scouting Combine and Super Bowl. A St. Louis native, she loves the Rams, Cardinals and Blues, as well as the Syracuse Orange (her alma mater) and the Wisconsin Badgers. In her free time, Sara likes to spend time at the beach, travel, work out, read and cook.