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NFL Network Has Adorable Ideas About What Constitutes ‘Celebrities’

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Because their first forty or fifty choices weren’t swayed by the thought of prolonged exposure to surly Jets fans in exchange for free food, here’s all the Famous (really!) People the NFL has rounded up to appear at their little football cotillion Thursday night:

↵Charles Coplin, the NFL programming vice president overseeing the show at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall, Tuesday said Goldberg and actors Alyssa Milano, Josh Charles and Dan Lauria as well as weight loss guru Jillian Michaels will be working the draft’s first-ever red carpet for entrances shown live Thursday on ESPN and NFL Network (6 p.m. ET).
Don’t laugh.
↵Too late. Although I’ll change my tune in a hurry if Josh Charles shows up in Sports Night character as Dan Rydell, wearing his green “I Survived Draft Day” t-shirt.

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