NFL: Why I Hate The Pro Bowl, and It’s Getting Worse Each Year

January 30, 2011   ·   Richard O'Hagan   ·   Jump to comments

Is there a more meaningless contest in professional sport than the Pro Bowl? As an exercise in utter pointlessness, it appears to be without equal. And now, thanks to the avarice of the NFL itself, it has become even more meaningless than ever.
To my mind, the Pro Bowl always laboured under two basic deficiencies. The first was that the players selected to it were chosen with such a huge chunk of the season still to run, meaning that there was no opportunity to take account of performances in the late season and the playoffs.
I remember vividly the 2007 game, when the Vikings provided 1/3 of the game's starters despite the fact that, for that latter part of the season, they sucked.
And that is before you consider the number of injuries which occur during those games, meaning that a good proportion of those selected never make it to the game anyway.
Then there is the problem that the two participant sides are coached by active NFL coaching staffs. No coach, faced wit...

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