If the Kansas City Chiefs keep the No. 78 pick in the NFL Draft this weekend, the selection will receive a ton of free pizza from Pizza Hut for silly scientific reasons.
We always had a neighbor who celebrated Pi Day. On March 14, they would hold an annual celebration at their house and invite over plenty of friends and family and neighbors to also bring in sweet and savory pies of all kind—from shepherd’s pie to apple pie—to commemorate the day. It was fun. I also knew, even at an early age, that it was a bit nerdy.
Pi Day, for those who don’t know, is celebrated in honor of Pi—typically used as the Greek letter of the same sound, π—and used in all manner of mathematical and scientific applications for its presence as a constant. Specifically it’s a number that represents 3.1415926… actually it’s a never that never stops going, one that you could compute endlessly.
Anyway, all of this is nerdy and doesn’t matter. We’re here for the Chiefs and we’ll let Wikipedia tell you the rest.
Pizza Hut is the official pizza sponsor of the NFL these days after Papa John’s decided to abandon such a role (or vice versa). One of their first promotions is a Pi Day promotion for the upcoming 2018 NFL Draft.
Pi Day is celebrated because it lands on the calendar at 3.14, the first three numbers of this mathematical constant. That’s the same reason that Pizza Hut will celebrate the 14th selection of the third round, currently a pick that lands with the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Chiefs hold two third round selection and have been talking publicly, through general manager Brett Veach, about trading up into the top of the second round or even late first round. If that’s the case, then the Chiefs are going to likely have to surrender one of those third round picks plus their No. 54 selection in the second round to move up. But if they keep him, Pizza Hut is offering this:
The 78th pick in this year’s NFL Draft will receive a free pizza for an entire year courtesy of new league pizza sponsor Pizza Hut. Why #78? It’s the 3rd round, 14th pick (3.14 = pi). The Chiefs currently hold the pick. pic.twitter.com/vZXeSmJLog
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 23, 2018
Given various mock drafts, that pick has been often linked to a safety like DeShon Elliott, a safety from Texas, or Dorance Armstrong, a pass rusher from Kansas. A player at one of those positions or even a defensive lineman is likely to earn the call in the third from the Chiefs.
Whoever is picked at that spot will not only be much, much richer than they were as an NCAA athlete, but now they can rest assured that they can sit back and enjoy plenty of pepperoni on the league’s newest sponsor. And they can thank the circumference of a circle for it all.