The NFL draft begins tonight, and Patch will be at the Pittsburgh Bottleshop Cafe in Collier Township to meet with readers and talk football. Lots of football.

The event begins at 7 p.m. inside the restaurant and pub at Collier Town Square along Route 50. Local editors from several Western Pennsylvania Patch sites will be hanging out for the night to chat with bar patrons at a table near the door.

If you are able to visit the Pittsburgh Bottleshop Cafe during the night, submit your name and e-mail to be entered to drawings for great prizes.

We’ll be giving away $10 gift certificates to the Bottleshop every 30 minutes, and a grand prize $50 certificate near the end of the night. All you need to do is share your e-mail address at our Patch table, and you’ll receive our e-mail newsletter in your inbox every morning!

If you can’t make it to the Bottleshop during the football draft, you can still ask questions and express your opinions during our online chat on Patch sites. No registration is required during this real-time online discussion.

The discussion will also include Patch editors from the Cleveland area, so expect a lot of smacktalk between the two cities and their football fans.