The worlds most high profile flag football game somehow managed to become even more unwatchable. The NFL Pro Bowl, widely regarded as the worst all star game in professional sports (yes even the Badminton Pro Am has its merits) has done the unthinkable to try and get a ratings boost: they've moved their game back to the week before the Super Bowl as opposed to the week after. Which, on paper, sounds like a good idea because overall awareness and football hysteria still exists in the wake of the seasons climax. However the NFL is forgetting one minor thing: all of those good players, you know the ones on the really good teams that take said teams to the Super Bowl, will not be playing. Matt Schaub and David Garrard are the starting quarterbacks for the AFC!!! BACKED BY VINCE YOUNG!!! None of these guys even made it to the playoffs, let alone had spectacular seasons. Thank god the Vikings lost or else the NFC roster would be a complete clusterfuck. To make matters worse, in case you wanted to use this game as an excuse to visit beautiful and exotic Hawaii, you've got another thing coming. In addition to moving the time to a date when many of its starters could not play, the NFL decided it would be in the Pro Bowl's best ineterest to be moved to tacky Miami. In case you havent been to Miami every bar has 20$ covers, 20$ beers, ok at best beaches, and enough silicone and hair gel in/on its inhabitants to fill the Atlantic. So if this coming Sunday you wish to watch the NFL's second best players drop passes and avoid tackles like sissy girls, please turn on the Pro Bowl. Who knows maybe it will be so bad that its funny.
2010 Pro Bowl Rosters
I agree with you a lot on the pro bowl. I applaud the league for trying to make it better but they failed in every conceivable way. The one good thing that came out of this is that Matt Schaub is IN the pro bowl. To spite the fact that David Garrard and I share the same initials, he is not very good, and VY while leading his team to 8 wins in 10 games is impressive neither one should be in the probowl. Schaub however has put up better numbers than Tom "pretty boy to cool to stay with my baby mama I will never be as good as people think I am and I cry about it every night in my sleep" Brady and has fairly comparable stats to Rivers. So while the NFL has ruined the probowl worse than the mother 18 someone who deserves to get in actually did.
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