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Pro Bowl is a Joke

hooshoops said:
andy dalton is there...of course it's a joke...frankly i'd rather watch paint dry than watch the pro bowl...it's like watching the wnba...not in my house
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You don't like watching females smack other females *****?

Hoops are you even human?

:lol:
 
Phinatic8u said:
You don't like watching females smack other females *****?

Hoops are you even human?

:lol:
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If I want, I can go on the internet and see lots and lots of that with hotter women minus the ridiculous attempts at playing basketball.
 
SkapePhin said:
They are literally just walking around out there. NO effort. They should scrap this and turn it into a skills competition.
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they used to have that. I would watch that and remember that. I don;t know why they took that off tv or stopped that. And yeah well they are going half ***, because its a meaningless game and the last thing you want is your star player to get seriously injured in a meaningless game. But yeah I liked the skills competition they used to have if anyone remembers. They used to have fastest man, a WR hands competition, and qb competition and they also have a sand flag football competition with the hall of famers going at it. I remember seeing dan marion, with mark clayton, andre reed, i cant remember all of the players vs steve young and his team had micheal irvin, mike singletary, etc. they had other previous ones with jim kelly vs boomer esiason, etc. not nearly the risk of injury with this compared to the pro bowl game and more entertaining to watch. I think darrel green used to compete in that throught out the years and one it a bunch i think.

That guy was crazy fast and i believe a few years even after retired they let him compete and he was 45 at the time and he came in second among current fast of the fast nfl players. just unbelievable. They said something like of him running a 4.34 40 at age 45, which is amazing..i believe green used to run like in the low 4.2s during his playing days, one of the fastest nfl players of all time.
 
I do realize how ridiculous this is but has anyone else envisioned Flynn with a Dolphins helmet on and wearing one of those afc jerseys. Haha!! On a side note go Marshall!! Only thing entertaining about this game.
 
tylerdolphin said:
If I want, I can go on the internet and see lots and lots of that with hotter women minus the ridiculous attempts at playing basketball.
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yeah nothing to get out of watching those women...i know it sounds mean, but a lot of those women are quite manly looking ha
 
And also I don't know about this year but in other years they had skills competitions, I watched a few from 05,06,07 etc on NFL network all throughout this week....Everything from

Bench press competition
40 yard Dash
Wide receiver catching comp
QB throwing comp

So all of your recommendations are being fulfilled whether you know it or not
 
Yeah, it's deteriorated to a revolting joke of a game. But there was roughly a 10 year period when the Pro Bowl was a treat, the most brutally physical game of the season. It sounds like ridiculous exaggeration until you go back and watch some of those tapes, from the mid '80s to the mid '90s, parallel to the NFC's domination of the Super Bowl. The AFC was so embarrassed they used the Pro Bowl as a grudge match but the NFC was hardly willing to roll over and surrender. Reggie White and the NFC defensive line dominated the game every season, to the point it was dangerous to be a quarterback in that game.

I remember it so well because I was already in Las Vegas and betting sports. Every season the Pro Bowl over/under would open at 41 and wise guys immediately would pound the under, down to 37.5 or 38. And it felt like stealing. You knew that if you had under the early number of 41 there was very little chance to lose on offensive merit. It would have to be defensive or special teams scores.

Check the scores from that era -- 10-6 in '86, 15-6 in '87, 21-15 in '91, 17-3 in '93. One game ended 23-20 in overtime but it was ridiculously misleading. The game was 20-6 NFC with a few minutes remaining, with virtually no offense all day, before a blocked field goal run back for an AFC touchdown, then Steve Young fumbled immediately to set up the tying touchdown. I felt like slamming the wall when I lost that under.

It ended in stunning fashion in '94 when Barry Switzer was NFC coach and treated the game like a lark. He told his players to have fun, while he was literally eating a hot dog on the sidelines. The AFC rushed for a zillion yards in the first half and my bet had no chance. I found out later that Switzer had treated college all star games the same way when he coached them, as a treat for the players and not to be taken seriously.

The following season it returned to normalcy and I won the under, 20-13, but once Denver broke the long AFC drought in the Super Bowl the Pro Bowl grudge match ended and it gradually turned into the defenseless farce of today. The over/under number has doubled and nowadays the same guys who bet under jump in to wager over.

But any time I hear somebody insist the Pro Bowl has always been a cupcake glorified flag football game I have to laugh at their ignorance. Not many years ago I found one of my old VHS tapes of a Pro Bowl in that era. My friend literally had his mouth ajar when he returned it, stunned at how physical the game was.
 
Awsi Dooger said:
Yeah, it's deteriorated to a revolting joke of a game. But there was roughly a 10 year period when the Pro Bowl was a treat, the most brutally physical game of the season. It sounds like ridiculous exaggeration until you go back and watch some of those tapes, from the mid '80s to the mid '90s, parallel to the NFC's domination of the Super Bowl. The AFC was so embarrassed they used the Pro Bowl as a grudge match but the NFC was hardly willing to roll over and surrender. Reggie White and the NFC defensive line dominated the game every season, to the point it was dangerous to be a quarterback in that game.

I remember it so well because I was already in Las Vegas and betting sports. Every season the Pro Bowl over/under would open at 41 and wise guys immediately would pound the under, down to 37.5 or 38. And it felt like stealing. You knew that if you had under the early number of 41 there was very little chance to lose on offensive merit. It would have to be defensive or special teams scores.

Check the scores from that era -- 10-6 in '86, 15-6 in '87, 21-15 in '91, 17-3 in '93. One game ended 23-20 in overtime but it was ridiculously misleading. The game was 20-6 NFC with a few minutes remaining, with virtually no offense all day, before a blocked field goal run back for an AFC touchdown, then Steve Young fumbled immediately to set up the tying touchdown. I felt like slamming the wall when I lost that under.

It ended in stunning fashion in '94 when Barry Switzer was NFC coach and treated the game like a lark. He told his players to have fun, while he was literally eating a hot dog on the sidelines. The AFC rushed for a zillion yards in the first half and my bet had no chance. I found out later that Switzer had treated college all star games the same way when he coached them, as a treat for the players and not to be taken seriously.

The following season it returned to normalcy and I won the under, 20-13, but once Denver broke the long AFC drought in the Super Bowl the Pro Bowl grudge match ended and it gradually turned into the defenseless farce of today. The over/under number has doubled and nowadays the same guys who bet under jump in to wager over.

But any time I hear somebody insist the Pro Bowl has always been a cupcake glorified flag football game I have to laugh at their ignorance. Not many years ago I found one of my old VHS tapes of a Pro Bowl in that era. My friend literally had his mouth ajar when he returned it, stunned at how physical the game was.
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Before my time and I feel like I missed out. Must have been incredible to watch the best on the best line up and actually take it seriously.
 
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