Raiders draft Fernando Mendoza No. 1:
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is National Works Zone Awareness Week. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm a victim of being ran over by a semi-while flagging. |
| 0:05.4 | The person wasn't paying attention, and they hit me with their vehicle. |
| 0:08.3 | I've seen an accident where we were the first people to walk up, and that picture will never leave my mind. |
| 0:14.1 | I've seen the people get hit before. |
| 0:15.7 | It's been horrible. |
| 0:16.5 | Construction zones on roadways and bridges are more than just cones and equipment. |
| 0:20.7 | They're the workplace for thousands of dedicated union laborers. Everybody has a family that they need to get back home to, so please just pay attention to us out here while we're working. We all have family, and I know it's a pain in the ass. We're trying to make the roads better for y'all. We're doing this for everyone. We're hardworking Hoosiers, just like you, and we all want to make it home safely. People would just take a couple seconds to pay attention. Be aware where we're at, where the cone zones are at. We're all in this together, and we're all just trying to be safe. This is Brian Short, business manager for the Indiana Labor's District Council. Everyone deserves a safe place to work. Do your part in the cone zone. Slow down, |
| 0:54.7 | save a life. We're all in this together. A message from Labor's International Union of North |
| 0:58.6 | America and affiliated locals. The NFL draft in Pittsburgh showcased a moment happening |
| 1:08.6 | in a very historic city for sports, the Steelers, the pirates. |
| 1:13.1 | They also have the bridges, the Allegheny, converging on the Ohio River, Pittsburgh producing its fair share of quarterbacks for the NFL, Terry Bradshaw being one of them. |
| 1:24.7 | But last night, it was Fernando Mendoza's Day, Indiana's own, the |
| 1:30.3 | centerpiece of the day, and the dude was in the crowd, one of 320,000. Jim, tell us about your |
| 1:40.2 | experience being at the NFL draft. How was it? Brad and, oh, Brad and Casey, let me tell you, |
| 1:48.0 | it was so much fun. And let me start off with this. I get that this whole thing is dumb. I mean, |
| 1:54.7 | it really is stupid. So before people start coming at me in the YouTube chats and I started getting |
| 2:00.3 | roasted in the comments |
| 2:01.4 | in YouTube, I fully admit that this was stupid. Because if you boil down what the NFL draft |
| 2:06.3 | really is, it's essentially the same thing. It's a grown-up version of being in grade school |
| 2:12.2 | at recess and picking teams for dodgeball. I got this guy, you got that guy, I got this guy. |
| 2:18.0 | It's grown-up dodgeball team choice. |
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