De Crevecoeur and the concept of the "New" in Modern America. Example: The NFL Draft

Every year, the National Football League holds its Collegiate Draft, where all 32 teams over 7 rounds "draft" college athletes in their Junior and Senior years (that have made themselves eligible) to join their team and become part of their future as Rookies. In my opinion the NFL draft is a modern symbol of De Crevecoeur's concept of the "New" because it is at its most basic, the bringing in of the new generation who will hopefully survive and flourish at the professional level.
However, the symbolism that the NFL draft provides is not just in the obvious aspects of it as an event, you can also see that the college students who are drafted have been re-made almost "re-born" and are given a clean slate, where their college achievements, although used as a projection of talent are completely worthless and that they now have to produce the "goods" to survive in the "survival of the fittest" that is competitive sports, in the same way that the settlers in America had been re-born into a strange land in which they now had to survive in.
This aspect of the NFL draft fits in well with De Crevecoeur's concept of the "new" because you can compare the idea that the top college athletes that were treated almost like Gods in their respective Universities that have been suddenly entered into a world where they are at the bottom and have to fight their way up the ladder, to the Nobles and Aristocrats that ventured to America who had to learn who to survive in a new world, whereas before everything in their lives were given to them, and the penalty for not adapting would be death, a situation similar to the NFL Rookies who failed to take their successes at college and translate that as success at the next level such as Ryan Leaf and JaMarcuss Russell, who are considered as some of the greatest Draft "Busts (Failures)" in NFL history.