Let’s be honest, the Pro Bowl sucks.
This season the NFL moved it from the week after the Super Bowl in Honolulu to the week before the Super Bowl in Miami. It didn’t matter to me where it was though, because the game itself is a joke.
I’ll admit, It was a cool idea to move the game before the Super Bowl. I mean, if I did care about the game I probably would have had a better chance of watching it yesterday than last week. It’s great for fans that live near the city hosting the Super Bowl, Miami this year, Dallas next season.
But it’s the game itself that I don’t like. I woke up this morning knowing that the Terps dropped the ball against Clemson, with the LOST season 5 finale fresh in my mind, but had no clue who won the Pro Bowl. Nor did I really care to know. Our BSR weekly assignments didn’t even include covering the Pro Bowl.
Despite having a large collection of the best players in the National Football League, you might as well suit these guys up in flags and play 7 on 7. No one hits hard because no one wants to get hurt in a meaningless game.
I’m really just venting though, because I don’t really have a solution for the NFL’s All Star game. Putting it before the season wouldn’t work, the middle of the season definitely wouldn’t work, and we have it at the end of the season now and everyone knows how effective it is there.
I don’t think I’m alone in saying that I wouldn’t care if it just disappeared.
What do you think of the Pro Bowl?
You are spot on. It's horrible.
I actually watched a few plays and concentrated on the line play. It's was laughable. The defensive lineman would slowly get out of their 3 point stance and slightly jog towards the offensive lineman who was assigned to block. Basically they would meet up and have a short conversation and head back to the huddle.
Of course, I saw Ray Rice getting the ball alot which made my stomach turn. I really hope they do away with it.
Did you see where the Pro Bowl this year attracted more cable viewers than any other all star game in history? Unbelievable.
It's funny.
The game got so much hype (mostly negative) due to the change of venue and the fact that it was before and not after the Super Bowl.
It sold out as well. Of course, the amount of potential ticket buyers in Miami dwarfs that in Honolulu.
As they say, any publicity is good publicity.
That's sad. The NFL could put their name on the worst programming in television and people would watch…actually that sounds exactly like the pro bowl