It's That Time of Year Again: The NFL Pro Bowl

Guess what, guys? Tommorow is the Pro Bowl! Yes, starting at 6:30PM eastern. Excited? No. Because golly gee, I sure am ... not. The Pro Bowl, you know, it looks like it would be a fun game. There's great scenery with the beautiful Hawaii area, beautiful weather, and just seeing Honolulu itself. However, what it lacks is some actual understanding of the game itself. What I mean is, players are just going to have a shootout making it 60-to-60-something. Granted, it sounds great, but when players are getting injured, and sometimes missing up a little bit into next season, that's what hurts the game, and makes the Pro Bowl not worth while.

And if that seems still reasonable enough for you to continue to watch the Pro Bowl every year with glee, why not look into the perspective that alot of them don't even want to go, and if they weren't getting a nice share of salary on this one, they wouldn't even waste their time on the trip. I just don't understand what's wrong with athletes these days getting such seldom opportunities to do great things, yet only doing them because of money. That leaves me to a big, hearty, and disunderstanding conclusion: Athletes are spoiled brats who excessively look around for their paycheck behind their backs every time you see them. You hardly see any that have heart any more.

So it's the *official* last game of the season now, the NFC versus the AFC. Oh, you're thinking "but the NBA All-Star game is the same way, T-Spark!" and you're saying the same with the MLB All-Star game. However, in the NBA, I can pretty much agree on that one, except it gets more attention because of the high-flyers and exciting plays. I'm not saying that there isn't any exciting plays in the Pro Bowl, but in the NBA, it's just every trip down the court usually, and it can never get old. However, wanna know something that will ruin your appetite? They're mostly playing for a paycheck too (Tyrus Thomas in the Slam Dunk competition.)

Oh, and the MLB All-Star game? They're actually playing for homefield in the World Series. It truly means something in that All-Star game to have a series on the line that could make the difference for your team (however, it didn't effect my Cardinals this past year, baby.) Once again, I'm not saying the Pro Bowl should include some stipulation like this, because in the NFL, that would be asinine considering that they SHOULD be playing on neutral fields, so you can't justify that.

My pick for the Pro Bowl? That's pretty obvious -- The AFC: Peyton Manning, Carson Palmer, Chad Johnson, Jason Taylor, Shawn Meriman, LaDainian Tomlinson, Larry Johnson, Willie Parker. I mean, the list goes on. While I am an NFC guy, I'm unbiased (most of the time), as well, and I'm going to have to go with the AFC on this game, it's the most talented AFC team in a while, and we should be in for a treat tommorow. I just hope Marc Bulger, and Steven Jackson can play some good ball.