NFL Draft quiz: Serious football fans, please stand up

The National Football League’s annual selection of college players is when 12-months-a-year fans settle in for three days of televised announcements, beginning Thursday night. No suspense surrounds the top two picks.  The Indianapolis Colts have already indicated that they will take Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, and the Washington Redskins are widely expected to take Baylor QB Robert Griffin III. If you know this and think you know much more, try this NFL draft quiz:

9. How long does each team have in which to make its first round pick?

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In this file photo, Brady Quinn, a quarterback from Notre Dame, holds a jersey after being selected 22nd overall by the Cleveland Browns during the first round of the NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

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About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

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The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

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