Colts president could do without this year’s Pro Bowl
Posted by Christopher Glotfelty (01/26/2010 @ 4:11 pm)
Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian dislikes the 2010 Pro Bowl as much as every NFL fan.
From ESPN.com:
“It’s stupid,” he said on the Dan Dakich Show on 1070 The Fan in Indianapolis. “It’s a disruption, but we’ll deal with it.”
Polian: “Well, we’ll come back to practice on Wednesday. We’ll practice Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They’ll have off Saturday. If it weren’t for the Pro Bowl disruption, they would have the weekend off, but they can’t because we have to send those players to Miami to do Lord knows what. We’ll come back and practice on Sunday and the Pro Bowl players will go and do whatever they have to do and then the team will leave on Monday.”
(So the Pro Bowl players you will fly down there and they just fly back that day?)
“I don’t know that they fly them back. I think they plan to keep them down there that evening. They haven’t even told us yet what this is all about. We don’t even have any details or anything like that. Maybe they will call us Friday and tell us. In any event, the fact of the matter is that we’re thinking that they’re down there Sunday night and they will meet us Monday, which is a hell of a thing isn’t it? It sends a great message to all the young people out there and all the coaches that talk teamwork that you take your best seven players and split them up from your team at the ultimate moment in sports.”
You can’t argue with Polian. A black cloud has been cast over a seemingly enjoyable event because of its bad scheduling. With the Super Bowl coming up, neither the Colts or the New Orleans Saints should be worrying this much about the coordination of their players’ flights.
The Bengals were robbed for the 2010 Pro Bowl
Posted by Anthony Stalter (12/30/2009 @ 8:22 am)
The 2010 Pro Bowl rosters were announced on Tuesday and some familiar names will be playing in the annual all-star game again.
Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Brett Favre all made the roster, as well as Andre Johnson, Larry Fitzgerald and Ray Lewis.
But one team that was absolutely robbed when it came to the AFC roster was the AFC North champion Bengals, who were shut out altogether. Cornerback Leon Hall was royally screwed, and a case could be made for Jonathan Joseph and Cedric Benson as well. (Although Benson faced stiff competition at running back in the AFC, with Chris Johnson, Maurice Jones-Drew and Ray Rice all deserving of spots.)
One cool note about the NFC roster is that Eagles’ playmaker DeSean Jackson will be the first player in NFL history selected to the Pro Bowl as both a position player and a kick returner.
You can check out the Pro Bowl rosters for both conferences at NFL.com.
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Who’s stupid idea was this?
Posted by Anthony Stalter (12/30/2008 @ 11:05 am)
Apparently the 2010 Pro Bowl will be played one week before the 2010 Super Bowl.
The Pro Bowl will be played one week before the Super Bowl in 2010 and both games will be staged in Dolphin Stadium, a person directly involved in the decision told The Associated Press on Monday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the NFL has not announced the move, but Hawaii’s governor and Honolulu’s mayor both confirmed the situation later Monday.
“While I am disappointed the Pro Bowl likely will not be played in Hawaii in 2010, I respect the NFL’s decision to play the post season all-star game in the same city as the Super Bowl, one week before the Super Bowl, on a one-year test basis,” Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said in a statement.
It’s not a new notion to have the game moved up to take place between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. The NFL has discussed it multiple times in recent years, and commissioner Roger Goodell told the AP last month that having the game precede the Super Bowl would avoid a “somewhat anticlimactic” ending to the season.
“Plans for future Pro Bowls are not final, but we have stated publicly several times that we are giving strong consideration to moving the Pro Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. “We also have been exploring playing future Pro Bowls at the site of the Super Bowl as well as in Honolulu.”
So what happens with those players that were voted into the Pro Bowl but are also playing in the Super Bowl? They obviously can’t play in the Pro Bowl and risk injury, so they just lose out on the honor of making the All-Star game? (Not that it’s much of an honor for players these days.)
This is a stupid idea and it’s sad that Hawaii is going to lose even more tourism that year than it already has because of the bad economy.
