Working For The Dallas Cowboys: Day 2

So overall today was pretty much awesome. I am now known as "the intern" by the security guard at the front gate, so he simply waves me on through, which is super cool. Also, I'm not considered a visitor anymore, so I no longer need a visitors badge, I'm now somewhat official.

Today, I spent a majority of the day with the scouting department, which made the day awesome. The scouting department's primary job during the season is to obviously scout the opponent for the upcoming week. However, since it's the offseason, and next season is still up in the air with this lockout issue, they were scouting potential players in which they could hopefully sign to their roster for next year. Luckily, today they were scouting offensive lineman. I spent most of the day with Will McClay, one of the team's scouts. I sat in his office watching film with him, and at the end, he asked me what my observations were. I won't go into great detail about what I observed, but I'll just say that what I observed matched his observations (thanks to Jeremy Calahan for teaching me my O-lineman knowledge). Following my intense film session, and me being the intern, I had to go to Subway to pick up lunch. I viewed this as my initiation into the "brotherhood" of Dallas Cowboy's interns. We then ate in the War Room, which is where all the executives sit on NFL draft day to discuss their next pick, and watched SportsCenter on the massive flat screen TVs. After lunch, I was shown by my boss Todd Williams a massive book containing every single college prospect the Cowboys might possibly have drafted in this years draft. He used it to show me how they would go about researching their potential pick. It's hard to explain, but due to confidentiality issues, I'll just say that the scouts and coaches definitely do their research. Then it was 4:00, so my day was done. All in all, today was pretty freaking awesome!