No matter how the NFL dresses it up. No matter how the NFL changes the format or the rules, the Pro Bowl is still the Pro Bowl. It is that "fill the gap" game that takes up space on the free weekend between the end of the NFL playoffs and the Super Bowl.
I will admit, this year's game was better than recent years, but the draft, the Hall of Fame G.M.'s, the "mic'd up players, and all the trumped up hoopla couldn't keep fans in their Hawaiian seats or viewers tuned to their T.V. sets. Those sizzling, high-fashion unis didn't help either.
B-O-R-I-N-G.
Grey and white?
That's the best the Crayola-challenged NFL creative brains could come up with? Even the Civil War combatants wore grey and BLUE. Heck! It was easier to have a rooting interest in the Civil War than there is in the Pro Bowl.
The bad news is that fans paid money to sit in a Hawaiian drizzle to watch the NFL's All-Stars "compete".
The best news is that no players got hurt. That would be the ultimate indignity.
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Btw- Did you notice that, while calling plays, several of the Pro Bowl coaches used their play charts to cover their mouths to avoid having their top-secret signals stolen by lip-readers? Did they forget that they were "mic'd" and that their commands were being broadcast to NBC's viewing audience?
Oops! Force of habit.
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