NFL Pro Bowl will be played before the Super Bowl, will move back to Hawaii
by BigBlueShoe on Mar 2, 2010 5:00 PM EST
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This move is a head-scratcher: The NFL is moving the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii, but will keep the game before the Super Bowl
This past season, the Pro Bowl was held in Miami the week before the Super Bowl. It generated strong ratings and provided viewers with something football-related the week before the big dance. Yes, several big name players dropped out because they are punks... er, were "injured," but whatever. The game was somewhat enjoyable to watch and the increased viewership justifies keeping the game before the Super Bowl.
However, the 2010 Super Bowl home is not South Florida. It's Jerry World, the gigantic phallic replacement known as "Cowboys Stadium," which is located in the happening hot spot that is Arlington, TX. I guess having the Pro Bowl held in the same city as the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame just doesn't seem to have the "flare" that South Beach offered.
Despite the flaws of the Pro Bowl, it just makes sense to keep it in the same town as the Super Bowl for logistical purposes, especially if several players who are in the Super Bowl were also voted into the Pro Bowl. I mean, they at least need to make an appearance at the exhibition game, do some interviews, shake some hands, and be done with it. Yeah, having the Pro Bowl in Arlington kind of sucks, but the Pro Bowl in general sucks already. Why make it more of a hassle than it already is by having it somewhere other than the host Super Bowl town?
Instead of leaning on the side of practicality, the NFL has decided to return the Pro Bowl to Honolulu, Hawaii. This means that several players will have to fly all the way out to the islands, hang around for a day, participate in a meaningless game, and then fly 3,778 miles from Honolulu to Arlington in time for Monday evening press events at the Super Bowl.
Ugh.
This just doesn't seem like a smart move, and I assume players and coaches everywhere met this Pro Bowl news with one, big, collective groan.
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I have a feeling
that Pro Bowl-nominated Super Bowl participants will be coming down with mysterious injuries in the days before they have to fly to Honolulu.
Oh, and if they ever do a head-to-head interview of the SB QBs again, I’ll shove bamboo shoots under my fingernails. Ok, I take that back, but it was excrutiating to watch that interview of Peyton and Brees.
How can you not love a team that does this?
That interview sucked.
"Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans." - Dick Young
Movie Quote of the Week: "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
I looked forward to it initially
but realized in retrospect that maybe it wasn’t the best thing to set up 2 highly competitive guys who were just about to battle it out on the biggest sports stage on earth, and ask them to take turns answering benign questions and vaguely praising one another. Better if it had been like what they do with boxers at weigh-ins – just have them stand inches apart, staring at each other menacingly while they’re in just their shorts and with their chests all oiled up.
Hm…. where is that number for CBS…???
How can you not love a team that does this?
Have Jay Leno do the interviews
Last night he asked Lindsey Vonn if her husband also coached her in the bedroom. She turned a couple of shades of red on that one.
JAY LENO SUCKS!
team coco forever!!!
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Mar 2, 2010 7:54 PM EST up reply actions
You would want that.
"Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans." - Dick Young
Movie Quote of the Week: "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
I would want that
"It's the greatest job in the world until Peyton comes off the field and you think his thumb might be broken and there's three minutes left in the AFC Championship Game and you're down by three to New England and you haven't taken a snap all year. Yeah, it's a great job until that point." - Jim Sorgi
They need to excuse the SB players for this to work
but if they do I expect they’ll have less injury drop outs with it being a trip to Hawaii again.
Luck is probability taken personally, clutch is probability attributed to individuals.
There is no other option
It’s too much to ask of the Super Bowl bound Pro-Bowlers – as well as the rest of the team and the coaching staff – just for some fluff-piece interviews and some feel-good face-time for Roger Goodell’s benefit.
Keep the faith!
Fine with me
Peyton and co. won’t have to travel to the Pro Bowl without the team this year.
"Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans." - Dick Young
Movie Quote of the Week: "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented."
2011
you mean 2011 super bowl home when referring to jerry jones’ compensation for his small genitalia, right?
Arlington?! What will they do?!
Cause heaven forbid they have their limo drive them 30 minutes to Dallas, which has a decent nightlife!
"If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
But ANYWAY..."
— Chuck Klosterman
by Addai Another Aday on Mar 2, 2010 6:24 PM EST via mobile reply actions
but who really wants to be stuck in Texas that long?
/hmm… where does AAA live again?
Go Colts!
by Marked Hoosier on Mar 2, 2010 7:18 PM EST up reply actions
Heh.
"If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
But ANYWAY..."
— Chuck Klosterman
by Addai Another Aday on Mar 3, 2010 12:59 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Any beaches nearby?
"It's the greatest job in the world until Peyton comes off the field and you think his thumb might be broken and there's three minutes left in the AFC Championship Game and you're down by three to New England and you haven't taken a snap all year. Yeah, it's a great job until that point." - Jim Sorgi
Lake Ray Hubbard
about 80 miles east…
but i can’t say it really counts. Corpus Christi counts, but that’s gotta be 400 miles!
Careful what you wish for... a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.
Keeping it the week before the SuperBowl, but moving it back to Hawaii is like
asking someone Roger Goodell if he’d rather immerse himself nude in a bathtub full of cockroaches or tobacco spit and he said, “BOTH!”
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