I count the day I became a man as the day in my 13th year that I decided not to watch the Pro Bowl anymore. Professional football just does not lend itself to an all-star game. Better to name real all-star teams and have them participate in skills challenges and maybe a Madden tournament or something - maybe a pro-am flag football game.
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> The league will soon announce whether it will opt out of its longtime >> relationship for the Pro Bowl with Aloha Stadium, where it's been played >> mostly since the late 70s... Houston, Orlando, or even Sydney, Australia >> (and you thought games in Britain were a bear) could end up hosting the >> game, cheapened further by keeping out Super Bowl-team members and changing >> the selection-of-players process to fit the mood of certain media people... >> >> Bloomberg News >> <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-19/nfl-said-to-be-moving-pro-bowl-game-to-orlando-from-honolulu> >> (link) >> > > The Pro Bowl is an antiquated institution that needs to be ended. And I > don't know about the credibility of the Bloomberg story. Interested parties > always give anonymous scoops to journalists to gain leverage in > negotiations. The Bloomberg article title says that the Pro Bowl is moving > to Orlando but of course if Honolulu changes their deal in the NFL's favor > then it will stay in Honolulu. > > I think it's cool that the NFL wants to recognize its star players. And > it's extra cool that they want to bring the players and their families to a > resort city to hang out together for a week and have some recognition event > at the end of it. But an all star NFL game just isn't worth watching. It > has none of the characteristics that make a football game worth watching. > The worst part is that the league sells the game as part of its > multibillion dollar media packages and the TV networks have got to find a > way for the game to pay for itself. So whichever network has the Pro Bowl > has to have its announcers hype the game and pretend it's something anybody > would want to watch. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
