The Best Cigars for Your Fantasy Football Draft Night

A fantasy football draft night offers up a litany of tough choices: running back or quarterback? Pepperoni or sausage pizza? Light or craft beer? 

However, one question that shouldn’t keep you up at night is what cigars you should bring. To make this decision even easier, we’re listing out our favorite smokes for football season, tailgates, and fantasy draft night. Check them out here!

La Flor Dominicana Special Football Edition

La Flor Dominicana is famous for innovation, so perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that they create a football-themed cigar every year. The 2024 limited edition features Ecuadorian Habano and Connecticut tobacco within a striking barber pole pattern — complete with a football shape in the middle. 

Note, La Flor Dominicana usually releases this cigar in the run-up to the “Big Game,” so stock up this year if you want some for future football occasions.

Punch Knuckle Buster (Habano)

The original Punch Knuckle Buster delivers a badass smoking experience defined by delicious Nicaraguan and Honduran tobacco, and it pairs beautifully with — get this — Brown Ales and cheeseburgers. If that doesn’t sound like a cigar tailor-made for a draft day party, we don’t know what would!

Diesel Whiskey Row

If you prefer whiskey to beer, then any of the Diesel Whiskey Row cigars would make an excellent choice for your draft-night festivities. Each Whiskey Row cigar is a collaboration with Rabbit Hole Distillery, and the latest release, Whiskey Row Founder’s Collection Mizunara, includes tobacco aged in rare Japanese Mizunara oak barrels.

Rocky Patel Number 6

Put six points on the board with Rocky Patel Number 6. Critically acclaimed (rated 93 by Cigar Aficionado), this Honduran-forward smoke offers a creamy, caramel flavor profile that rookies and seasoned vets alike will love. 

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