Pro Bowl madness

11 thoughts on “Pro Bowl madness”

1. Good Morning from Omaha,

   Pro Bowl? Pro bowl? we are talking about the pro bowl? (thats a jim mora reference) I wish the snow would melt so I could go out a ride the bike trail, but it is what it is.Its supposed to snow again sunday- I just hope that amc, tcm usa, someone has to be showing some good movies this weekend.

   I can always fall back to my collection of dvd’s of old TV shows like Newhart, coach, night court etc etc.

   Baseball news should start soon, as training camps open in about three weeks and every now and then some lady walks through the house acting like she lives here. I better figure out who she is before my wife finds out but first I have to find my wife.

   NO I won’t watch the pro bowl- but I will get a chance to restart my life away from football. Its funny I did have a life until last August and then football took over again this year.

   Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

   Gene

2. Gene,

   I love those old shows too. They just don’t make ’em like they used to. It’s snowing this morning as well and I’ve spent a sleepless night fretting about the Super bowl version of the next Monday Matchup Madness animation. After this one I’ll be done with them for the time being. I can’t seem to get rid of the butterflies running around my stomach. Hey, Glad you got home OK!

3. Dear Drew,

   I’m pretty much in the same thought process as Gene from Omaha. Only in my case I won’t watch old TV shows, I’m more of an anime guy and have tons of VHS and DVD’s of anime movies and shows.

   About the only All-Star Game worth watching for me is baseball. NBA, NHL, and NFL all star games aren’t worth watching. Unless I’m looking to fall asleep without medicine. That is just how I feel

   All the best,

   Louis

4. Louis,

   I agree. I’m not sure what to make of my thoughts about wavering on it this year. I think I’m starting to miss football already.

5. Drew, I think you will watch. I would, too, just because, but fortunately I have a weekend at the beach scheduled with the girls to keep me from going there. Who thinks this idea of doing it before Super Bowl is a good one? Or even more to the point, who cares?

6. Sherri,

   The Beach? Did you say Beach? Wow. Much better option.

7. The Pro Bowl is only worth watching from the stands. Which I was lucky enough to do, one winter in 1983. Of course, I lived there at the time.

   Of course, living in Hawaii isn’t all that great, contrary to what you might think. Everything has to be shipped in, all TV shows are a week late (they were back then; probably not that way now) and you can’t drive more than 30 miles in one direction without flooding your engine.

   Still, it wasn’t a bad place to grow up. Neither was Colorado. And since those two places were the only places the Army sent my father (he was a doctor), you can imagine that I had a really tough childhood.

8. Harry. Now that sounds like the life. Never been to Hawaii. I hope someday to get there. I may never come back though if I do.

9. Good cartoon, Drew! The last time I watched a pro-bowl game, Elway was still taking snaps at Mile High! lol I’m with Gene….nothing like a good ol’ movie from back in the day when film meant celluloid and not a digital disc of some sort or another. I’m sure that you will come up with a terrific Super Bowl animation, and I am looking forward to viewing it as soon as it is posted. Enjoy the view of snow-capped Rockies for me. I’m missing the mountains today.

10. The Pro Bowl is the NFL version of the IDW (BCS) – sounds great in concept but doesn’t work in practice.

    Mike

11. All-Star Games have really lost their cachet: The Pro Bowl at least moved back to a more reasonable time (between the Conf. Championships and the Super Bowl). Baseball’s ASG lost a lot of the competitive edge with the introduction of interleague play, and the NBA’s is a glorified streetball game (and the best dunkers opt out of the Dunk Contest!).

    The NHL is at least trying something different this year: Instead of being put into conferences, Jordan Staal and Nick Lidstrom will be captains and pick their teams from the players voted to play, almost like a pick up game on a pond. I’ll watch it for that alone.

    MLS’s All-Star Game was brilliant in the last decade: A game between the League and a top-flight team from overseas (Chelsea, Celtic, Fulham, Chivas and Manchester United were among the opponents). MLS had a 5-2-1 record in these games, which did quite a bit to give the league respectability in the eyes of serious soccer fans…as well as let us rub it in the face of the Celtic fans when they came to Denver.

    But when it comes down to it, they’re just exhibitions. Teams and players both consider them an injury risk, and fans mostly ignore them.