Apparently they played the Pro Bowl last night.
Who cares?
I applaud the NFL's continuing efforts to attempt to salvage this albatross - first moving it to Hawaii so the players could make a vacation of it, then to the site of the Super Bowl and making it as close to a pick-up, fantasy football game as they can manage.
But the truth is - you might as well play it with flags on. Nobody wants to get hurt playing football ever, but they sure as heck don't want to get hurt playing a completely meaningless game that no one cares about.
All-star games in basketball, hockey, baseball, soccer...all work because they're relatively safe. At the college level, they have a secondary purpose - to showcase kids for the draft. The HS All-American game does the same for those kids going into college.
What possible motivation would the pro football players have. Money? Pride? Presitge? Can't all that be achieved with a nice banquet celebrating the All-Pro players the same weekend? (And then you can include the Super Bowl teams' players, too.) Make it part of the Honors gig they do anyway, and call it good.
(Who won, anyway? I never heard...)
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