The Scammiest Pro Bowl in Scammy Pro Bowl History

January 29, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

The Pro Bowl has always been a stupendous scam. This year's Pro Bowl would win the Scam Olympics.
The scamminess of this edition is so scamtastic, so amazingly and shamelessly scamarific, it will go down in All-Star Game history as the boldest of bamboozling hoodwinks. 
The Pro Bowl has long lacked in effort and tackling (minus the one time Sean Taylor almost broke a punter in half). It's also long lacked in star players, who skip the game sometimes for legitimate reasons and sometimes because they just hate playing in it.
What makes this Pro Bowl special, though, is how many players are skipping it. It's the most declined invitation in the history of the game, maybe in the history of American sports.
Note this staggering number from the Elias Sports Bureau (via ESPN): The total number of players who have now been invited to the Pro Bowl is 133. Only 86 were voted in, meaning that 47 have had to be invited as alternates. The previous high was 119 invitations in...

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