Paul Rudd must not be on Twitter -- or really any social media platform that exists -- because somehow and someway, he managed to avoid discovering who the Kansas City Chiefs selected in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday until later that night. That's when, after a day spent telling people not to inform him of the Chiefs' selection, he plopped down in front of his television and began watching his recorded version of the event.
Rudd, whose fandom for the Chiefs apparently reaches a similar level to his passion for the Kansas City Royals, managed to escape Thursday spoiler-free and was able to watch the Chiefs select Washington cornerback Marcus Peters with the 18th overall pick.
Appearing on The Rich Eisen Show, Rudd explained why he not only recorded and watched the first round of the draft in the late hours of the night, but why he also tuned in for all seven rounds of the draft.
"My son, who is now 10 and also a die-hard Chiefs fan ... we had made a plan, we're going to watch the draft together," Rudd said. "We did. We watched the entire draft, minus that first round, together."
If it was up to Rudd's son, Jack, he and his father would've watched that first round together too. Apparently, Rudd was supposed to wake up his son when he got home so they could watch together. Instead, Rudd let Jack sleep and was planning on waking him up prior to the Chiefs' pick.
But when Jack walked out of his bedroom before that happened, he wasn't too happy about Rudd's decision making.
"He (had) demanded that I wake him up," Rudd said. "... I thought, 'I'll let it go until the Chiefs pick and then I'll wake him up.' But by about the fifth pick he came out, like he's rubbing his eyes and he comes walking out, and he's giving me one of those, 'Dude! You said you were gonna wake me up!' And then I had to explain, 'We're still 10 picks away.'"
As for the selection of Peters, Rudd admits he doesn't know too much about his team's new player. But Jack apparently does, as he called Peters a "beast."
Despite Rudd's lack of football knowledge, after he watched all seven rounds of the draft, he picked up on a pattern that he isn't very fond of. According to Rudd, the Chiefs don't receive their fair share of coverage and are often tuned out for teams like the Patriots.
"Even on the draft, the Chiefs make a pick, they don't even talk about it," Rudd said. "It's like they'll skip to the Patriots. ... We're used to it as Chiefs fans."
Some might disagree with Rudd's desire for more Chiefs coverage, after all, the Chiefs are a team that features Alex Smith at quarterback and a wide receiver corps that managed to score zero touchdowns in all of 2014.
But still, props to Rudd for going spoiler free on Thursday -- a feat in this day and age.
