It's flawed and silly for avid football fans but its the only game where you'll see the best players doing trick plays and putting up tons of points. The rookie idea sounds good but without the pro bowl holding any significance players will refuse to play all out. No point in risking injury with contracts on the line.
Well, the Associated Press 2nd team is a joke. No quarterback but eight safeties is just one problem we saw this year (more on this in a thread I have in the works). The PFW/PFWA and Sporting News All-Pro teams are better than the Associated Press team but they are less popular. The AP advertises their team better and fans are led to believe it is more official. Well, it is not. None of those teams are more official than the other.
I would prefer a skills contest to the game as someone else mentioned. There really is nothing serious about the game at all and that's fine. The last thing you want is someone on our team tearing an acl or something as bad.
I don't see blaming Goodell for this. The Pro Bowl wasn't his idea, and it probably wasn't going away or changing substantially regardless of the new commissioner. 11-10, actually, because, like with the nba and nfl, not much defense gets played. tons of breakaways and partial breaks, meaning a lot of goals.
Yeah, I remember. But who cares? If you're playing any kind of physical game, a player could destroy his knee. Could've happened yesterday too. For a player's knee to implode like Edwards' did during a flag football game is pretty rare. Maybe the sand played a part, or maybe it was bound to happen anyway.
You fags are really this upset about this? It's rediculous to get upset over a game that has no impact on anything and is there simply to humour the players. The players refuse to make any skull crackin hits or exert themselves because it's a game that dosen't effect the team that pays them, and that guy ended his career in a touch game in 99. Won't change, and won't be going anywhere.
Exactly. It's just football for me, even if it's half assed football. Watch it as long as you can watch, then shut it off, or don't watch at all. But for occassional non-diehard fans, I bet the game is fun.
fun fact: best ratings in 10 years. http://www.nfl.com/probowl/story/09...wl-still-a-tube-sensation?module=HP_headlines This thread fails.
PFT said the Pro Bowl had as many viewers as the BC championship game and the world Series. Which is pretty amazing as bad as the game was
Remember when they moved it to before the super bowl so people would watch it? It worked i guess, but i still don't like it and usually even forget to check the score.
I on't know what PFT said, but neither of those statements is true. The BCS championship game (I assume that's what you meant by BC championship) drew 27.3 million viewers. The World Series averaged 14.3 million viewers. The Pro Bowl drew 12.3 million viewers. http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsideth...ame-sets-another-ratings-record-for-espn.html http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/20...rst-in-history-plus-our-readers-guesses/70566 http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/01/tv-ratings-pro-bowl-wins-sunday-for-fox.html
Every sport has a "Pro Bowl" type game. NFL, NBA, NHL all have an "All Star" game at some point. You don't have to watch it. It's not competitive, it's just for fun. I, for one, think it's neat, but I'm not gonna plan my day around it.
I like the idea of them doing some sort of skills competition. Split them up by position where they would cretae throwing competitions for QB's, speed competitions for WR, etc..
