Why the Pro Bowl sucks

This weekend will be the official last week of actual football. There isn’t even Arena football this year (some people consider it football, but I don’t). This is the time where many men and some women as well, have to pack their bags until preseason until the summer for a glimpse of some football action. Before we can seal the deal on this season…let’s end the season with an All Star game known as the Pro Bowl. Are you serious? The NFL Pro Bowl is a joke and many will agree with me. I’ve stopped watching the NFL Pro Bowl since my freshmen year in high school because of a teacher’s thinking behind it. I asked my teacher if he was going to watch the Pro Bowl. He responded “No, why should I watch a game where nothing really matters in it?” He had a point. Ever since then I tried to watch the Pro Bowl, but I would lose interest after a quarter or two of the game. Then I finally stopped watching the game.

First off, every other major sport has its own All Star game. NHL, MLB, and NBA all have one. So what’s the difference with their All Star game? It’s not the last game in the entire football season. They’re all in the middle of the season. I’m not saying that the NFL Pro Bowl should be in the middle of the season, but move it to a different date. Well, guess what happened this year? They moved the game the week before the Superbowl. I like the move of the game, but not the move of its location. They’re gonna have the game be held at the location of the Superbowl which will be Miami next year. Why would you want to move it? They’ve held the game in Hawaii since the 1980’s…why change the location of the game? I understand that the game had different venues before Aloha Stadium, but playing the game in Hawaii distinguishes it as the Pro Bowl. NFL players all played in the Dolphins stadium before. That is something ordinary for them. Playing at Aloha stadium is something sacred, it’s special. It’s something new for those first timers going to their first Pro Bowl’s ever. It’s like you need to work you butt off in order to even play in that stadium.

So they moved the Pro Bowl a week before the Superbowl which is a great move, because the season should end with its greatest game as the finale. Hey what happens if a guy in the Pro Bowl who is gonna play in the Superbowl the week after gets injured…like a QB or WR? That’s a tough one. Hope no one gets injured next year who will be playing in the Superbowl.

Another thing that makes me not want to watch the Superbowl is that the game is just an exhibition game. The players are playing for nothing. In the other sports, their All Star games matter, because whichever conference wins the All Star game, that conference team gets home field advantage in the finals of its championship games. Which is a very big advantage in the NBA and NHL. I can’t see the NFL doing this with their All Star game (they already have selected the venue for every Superbowl in a few years advanced), but find a way to make the game matter to the players or something. Maybe the players playing the game would take the game more seriously. Just award the winning team with a check for winning the game and the losing team goes home empty. Also can the guys play the game like a real game? What is it with no blitzing or blocking the kicks on a field goal attempt? That is trash. In the preseason they all play hard in the game and actually block and what not. What makes the Pro Bowl any different? Make the game matter.