Sunday, January 26, 2014

New Pro Bowl system works

This year, the NFL decided that they were going to change the Pro Bowl to a elementary school football plan. Two coaches (former players) will draft the teams, and then coach the group of players. Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders were the coaches this year. With the teams drafted by coaching preference, and not separated by conference, this experiment added a little fun and excitement to the
Pro Bowl.

One of the new excitements to the Pro Bowl was the teammate on teammate hitting and tackling. With the new system, teammates would face up against their own teammates and get a chance to lay a big hit on them, or run right past them. This proved to be an effect of tonight's game, as multiple occurrences appeared when hard hits were laid on teammates, and teammates stood up others and ran right through them. This almost appeared fun for the players, and seemed to get them out of a money driven game for just one night.

After the first half of hard hitting, the second half was a little uneventful, and not as exciting. Maybe they decided someone could get hurt, but I think the Pro Bowl should be the best players on the best players to see whose the best. Not a game where there is little hitting, and very little effort involved. This years game brought some of that out, I think in the future we will see a little more excitement from the players and fans for the Pro Bowl, and the players will be looking forward to go to there and have a chance to win.

The Pro Bowl should be a serious competition between the best players in the world to see whose the best. I feel like this new system may provide that.

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