Lets call this blogging... Part 3. After another Siesta from writing
on my thoughts, I will give it another try to write on this blog, this
time I will blog a little less consistently so that I don't become so
discouraged.
The topic this evening... The NFL Pro Bowl. It is
another week before the Super Bowl which means another meaningless game
before the Super Bowl, they call it the "Pro Bowl", but it is anything
but a Pro Bowl. What we have is a game that few top tier players care
about with too much to lose that do not want to play in a game that is
treated as a joke, there is no incentive too play in the game or in the
case of the players too play 100%. I will admit that this season the
players did seem to give a better effort and the play itself was
somewhere between High School and College - Division 2.
The
Pro Bowl is a game that has been muscled out by is own league. There
is football on TV every day for 365 days a year, so another game is no
big deal for football fans. The Pro Bowl use to be the last time we
would get any football until the Draft in April and Training Camp in
August, now the day after the Super Bowl, every network is breaking down
teams for next year. Along with every game and every player being
analyze from top to bottom, there is no need to see what makes the best
players the best.
We do not get to see the best players
anymore because most players get paid above normal common blue collar
people. The "Pro Bowl" players can go to Hawaii on their own dime and
they do not have to put on a show for Commander and Chief Roger Goodell.
Back in the day of lower salaries, players would appreciate some paid
time in Hawaii since the players generally could not go on their own.
The
draft this year was a joke, there was no reason or thought process to
extending that over two days. I also thought that the draft would have
been better if it would have been a real draft instead of by position.
The
problem I'm having watching this years game is I'm unable to identify
with the teams this year. While my disinterest in the game was waning in
the last decade, this year the bottom fell out for me, who am I suppose
to cheer for? Why do care about either team? How does this game relate
to me? None of these question are answered with the format of this years
game. For me you need to give me a reason to watch, maybe some kind of
contest tie-in with the game with a drawing after the game, that might
get me to watch for the right price or prize.
The
rules for me have always been a joke for me since I have been watching,
but that was always going and is the reason that this game is not
watched or played like it should be. If this game was played with full
rules along with a bonus or incentive for the participating players to
fully... participate, the game would be played to its full potential.
The rules for this years game have been especially annoying, 4 two
minute warnings, switching ends after each quarter, no kickoffs, etc.
This more and more sounds like the Roder Goodell experimental rules
game.
It is time to end this game and give
it a proper send off, the purpose of this game in the end was the
ability to see players play each week that you could not see normally.
This era of football of 24/7 football takes away that need for this
game. Lets one and for all make this years game the series finale for
this one great game and allow this game to end with dignity instead of a
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