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1 posted on 01/26/2014 12:47:19 PM PST by Dave346
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Given the high financial value placed on these elite players, I’m quite surprised they are playing a game like this any more.


2 posted on 01/26/2014 12:49:23 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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Honestly, the NFL should have the Senior Bowl on the same day the Pro Bowl is on now.


4 posted on 01/26/2014 12:51:29 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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If pro football is around five years from now, we won’t recognize it.

No kick-offs? Seriously? One of the most exciting parts of football is the kick-off and return.

Those who champion the changes that are coming, are the same folks who have tried to destroy the nation. It is the Leftists.

What is so bad about football that it must be destroyed?

Folks, it’s a man’s sport. It is a very physical game where women can’t come in and claim they’re just as good. It puts the lie to that, and that can’t be allowed.

It’s time for men to tell these people to F off.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 12:52:07 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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Goddell wanted to cancel it, the players didn’t want it cancelled, so Goddell does this draft BS to punish the players for not doing what he wanted.


6 posted on 01/26/2014 12:52:24 PM PST by chae (I was anti-Obama before it was cool)
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Time to cancel Roger Goodell at $29 Million a year.


10 posted on 01/26/2014 12:54:40 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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...instead of the AFC against the NFC, Sunday night's game will feature two teams that were selected in a scintillating Pro Bowl Draft that was held on Jan. 22.

Good. The Commish must've read my thread a few weeks ago when I called for the ending of the conferences.

There's no difference between the AFC and NFC so there's no need for conferences.

There's also no need for divisions. The teams should be ranked 1 thru 32 with the top 4 teams getting a first round bye in the playoffs while the next 8 teams play each other in the first round.

That way you won't have teams with inferior records making the playoffs while teams with better records stay home or travel to the home of a team with an inferior record.

Hopefully Goodell will see the brilliance in this idea and start working towards it.

11 posted on 01/26/2014 12:55:16 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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They should cancel it. Permanently. The latest version, as describe in the article, is the worse thing imaginable. Plus, who the heck wants to put their best players at risk?


15 posted on 01/26/2014 12:59:03 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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I could do without the Pro bowl, in fact I haven’t watched it in years and I don’t plan on watching this one either.

It’s boring.


17 posted on 01/26/2014 1:00:14 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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How about a $10,000 bonus to the players on the winning team?


29 posted on 01/26/2014 1:33:04 PM PST by thatjoeguy (Every law passed is one person forcing their morals on someone else.)
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The whole idea of "All-Star" games is ludicrous and should be scrapped for all sports. Whether the sport is hockey, baseball, basketball or football, these games are snooze-fests, of entertainment only for shut-ins and small children who don't know any better and think the players actually give a hoot if the AL beats the NL or if the East beats the West, etc.

Now at least baseball dresses up their All-Star game with things like home run derbies and dog-catching-frisbee contests. But the game itself is a cure for insomnia.

40 posted on 01/26/2014 2:31:06 PM PST by SamAdams76
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Is it single-flag or two-flag football tackles?

-PJ

42 posted on 01/26/2014 2:43:24 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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Instead, though, he chose to turn it into a ridiculous joke this year.


46 posted on 01/26/2014 3:30:54 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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How and why does Roger Goodell have so much power?


48 posted on 01/26/2014 3:32:37 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I think I've lost my mojo.....)
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I still can’t figure out which “team” to pull for. Let’s see: shirts or skins? Well, since I could care even LESS than previous Pro Bowls as to who wins, no way am I going to watch this travesty.

Maybe they should just continue to the Pro Bowl selection, give the players a free vacation to Hawaii, but just skip the game itself. Given the way the players play,skipping the game wouldn’t be too much different than playing it anyway.


50 posted on 01/26/2014 3:36:01 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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They should cancel it, the probowl is just awful. Of course the ratings beat most of the championship games of other sports, so it won’t be canceled.


51 posted on 01/26/2014 3:37:20 PM PST by discostu (I don't meme well.)
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I never bother to watch the Pro Bowl. They should name all-star teams but there is little point to the game.


58 posted on 01/26/2014 6:33:39 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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