Oh crap, I think I just missed the Pro Bowl. Damn, should have paid attention so that I could have gotten you the quality Pro Bowl article, that you all wanted and deserved.

Here’s the deal, the Pro Bowl has to go. It’s pointless and it’s only about to get worse, this year being the last year before the start placing it before the Super Bowl. This game absolutely cannot be played before the Super Bowl.

Look all sports have a version of the All Star game. One excels at it (Baseball), one does it well enough (Basketball), one changes their sport in it’s entirety and in my opinion actually improves the game (Hockey), and one sport utterly fail and seems to not quite get the concept of the exhibition. That last one is football.

Football cannot work as a harmless exhibition. The basic appeal of the game is that it is completely savage and players only excel after rising about the chaos and fear. Defenses crash down, blockers occasionally go low, and God help you if you get in the bottom of a dog pile. And none of this can ever happen in an All Star game. Players aren’t going to be sending out message hits, unless something goes horribly wrong.

As fans we all know that they won’t do this, so we’re not watching the game. With no defense, it just becomes a race in running up the score. It’s a practice session for superstars.

Another problem is that this game happens after the Super Bowl. This is obviously different from the leagues holding their All Star games in the middle of the regular season. This is sort of like watching a great action movie where everything builds to a climactic scene…and then they cut to a scene afterwards where two of the guys arm wrestle for no apparent reason. Again, it makes total sense that they’d do it that way if they had to have a Pro Bowl. You can’t have players knocking heads in a meaningless game (Unless it’s a preseason one, but that’s another article). But moving the game ahead of the Super Bowl is worthless. Now the players who are actually in the Super Bowl can’t play for fear of the random freak accident.

Also, the notion that the Super Bowl needs more excitement going into it is stupid. We’re pretty fired up for the Super Bowl come mid October in this country. There’s nothing a meaningless exhibition game is going to do to change that. And the players are going to hate going to the game before the Super Bowl. I mean next year will be fine because the game will be in Miami, but after that it’s going to Dallas and Indianapolis. You tell me, where do you want to be in late January; Hawaii or Indiana.

Here, I'll help you out. This is the first picture you get when you enter Hawaii into a Google search engine

And here is the first image you get when you do it with Indiana, that isn't just a picture of Indiana itself

Know why there's so much sky in the above picture? Because there isn't anything happening below. No offense to anybody who lives in Indiana. I'm sure it's a fine place to live, but you don't want to vacation there in the winter.

Nobody ever remembers who did what in the game after the big game. Quick, without looking on the internet, who holds the record for most yards rushed in a Pro Bowl. Answer: I don’t know. It’s doesn’t really matter does it. The only thing that people do care about is whether or not they were voted into the game. They don’t actually want to play a football game though. They want to go hang out in Hawaii and collect their big Pro Bowl bonus. I am not doing any research on this, but common sense tells me that’s what I’d want if I were them.

So forget the game. Go college style and name an All American team if you want. But don’t try to bore me with a Pro Bowl game.