One Year After Major Changes, Pro Bowl Still Proving to Be a Huge Disappointment

January 20, 2015   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

Last year's Pro Bowl was kind of awesome.
No, really—it was! There were a lot of scores and turnovers, plenty of real line play (complete with bone-rattling sacks), and even the retired-star "coaches" gave us some entertaining antics and anecdotes. If you bothered to tune in, you were rewarded.
After years of complaints about the Pro Bowl game itself, it looks like the combination of cross-conference selections, NHL-style schoolyard drafting and some mic'd-up Hall of Famers adding spice did the trick.
I guess nobody told the players.
After a spate of injury withdrawals and "thanks but no thanks" responses, the NFL is having to dig very, very deep to fill out the rosters:
With All-Star prestige, an important legacy bullet point, possible contract bonuses and a free trip to sunny Arizona at stake, you'd think players would be lining up for the honors. Instead, they're staying away in droves.
Even if the NFL has finally fixed the on-field product, just ...

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