Pro Bowl Pride
To start... I love the NFL. I'm actually more of a fan of the league than of a specific team (but I do root for the Cowboys, have since I was a little kid).
The National Football League is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. The Super Bowl will be watched by about a billion people worldwide.
So why is their all-star game, the Pro Bowl, so unwatchable?
I have the game on here in the 6 Sports office... and I really could care less.
I like baseball's mid-summer classic, even if giving home field advantage in the World Series to the winning league is the silliest thing ever.
This year the NFL moved the game from Hawaii to Miami, site of the Super Bowl. They also moved it up two weeks, ensuring that Pro Bowl players on the Saints and Colts rosters won't be playing in the exhibition.
Great move... take the best players from the best teams and make sure they DON'T play in the Pro Bowl.
I should relish this Pro Bowl... football season is almost done, and there won't be a meaningful game for eight months.
Not that the Pro Bowl is meaningful...
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In my opinion the Pro Bowl is not the same because of the big money players make today. In the 1960's, 70's, and even 80's the players wanted to play in and win this game because of the extra money that was involved. The money paid out now to each player is like $100.00 to you and I. I was always excited to watch the pro bowl as a kid, it meant one more game of football before the season sadly ended. My first football hero was Bob Griese and then came Dan Marino, these guys always got me excited playing in this game but now a days guys really do not want to play in this game and really I can not blame them. Things change through the years and this is one game big money has indeed changed for the worse. Honestly the last Pro Bowl I remember watching is the 1992 game because Don Shula was the coach, former Vol T-Mac scored on a blocked FG, and the AFC won the game 23-20/24-21 something like that in overtime. That was nice since I was an AFC guy and the NFC during that time was kicking the tails of all the AFC teams in the Super Bowls! Good read Mark!
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