The NFL draft gets all the league's fans salivating. And in some cases, the draft spurs fans into action.

Dan Riback contacted me recently. He's a self-described Jets fanatic — "I bleed green," he states simply — since the 1970s, having grown up in Fair Lawn, N.J., a short drive from the Meadowlands.

He's bicoastal now with a home in California and an apartment in Chatham, N.J., not far from… More