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POW! Right in the kissah.
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No More Pro Bowl?
Pro Bowl might finally be taken out behind the shed and shot
The much-maligned and seldom-entertaining NFL Pro Bowl might finally get the axe, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen. Commissioner ![]() Here's a snippet from what Mort said this morning on Mike and Mike in the Morning: "The league is moving toward suspending the Pro Bowl, possibly this year. As one person told me last night, it is DOA, Dead on Arrival. At the same time, the league, I believe, will instruct teams to continue to put Pro Bowl incentives in contracts; if players have Pro Bowl incentives, to go ahead and pay them so they don't have a problem with the union. "Right now, the Pro Bowl is on the calendar for the week before the Super Bowl, but there's no game site that is listed, if you look at it closely. The reason why is, after a lot of discussion, I think this commissioner ![]() It's not the first time we've heard these notions. Back in February, right after the "game," ![]() It's the right call. You may have heard this before, but the NFL is a violent game. What happens at the Pro Bowl is that the violence goes away, as the one true goal for any player in Hawaii is to walk away healthy. If there's no violence, the game is not the game ‒ the intensity and effort are not there, and it's impossible to play this game in an entertaining way without intensity and effort. Which leaves the league with a choice: They can to put out three hours of an embarrassing product the week before the Super Bowl, or they can simply not play the game. The latter is the more sensible choice. |
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The Pro Bowl has been on life-support for at least 20 years. Good riddance.
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How does this affect contract incentives?
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I won't miss it thats for sure.
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As I said in the other thread, this is terrible news. How can we win a championship without any pro-bowlers?
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This has been a long time coming. The Pro bowl been a joke for years. They should just replace it with a skills competion instead.
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POW! Right in the kissah.
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I think the last time I watched any portion of a Pro Bowl, it showed Ty Law wearing a pats helmet, returning an INT for a TD.
I don't remember what year it was or who through the pass that he picked. But it's the last memory I can recall of any Pro Bowl. |
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Vae victis
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Just scrap the game but leave the other stuff. The skills competitions are far more entertaining than the game is anyway.
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I stopped watching when Edwards blew out his knee.
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"It says a lot," a 25-year-old fan reflected, "that the greatest moment in my life is a Week 3 win over New England." I AM PATRIOTS ![]() Belichick (1/24/15) “I would not say I’m the Mona Lisa Vito of the football world as she was in the car expertise area.” taltos ![]() |
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So now how are we going to determine whether a player is good or not?
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GO COLTS!
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Thank gawd! That thing has been a joke for years!
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