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New Low for the Pro Bowl!

jasonluckydog

By jasonluckydog,
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the pro bowl is so big b/c they use it to reference players for the rest of their careers and after. For example, people will refer to Smitty as "3 time pro bowler Steve Smith"

The amount of pro bowls you go to is used as a measuring stick to judge the type of player you were throughout your entire NFL career. Heck, it can even be difference in making the hall of fame or not.

Actually it's more like All-Pro selections and Super Bowl apperances that is used to measure how good a player was. Anyone that knows football knows Pro Bowls are no way to define a player since it's a popularity contest and not that important. Only ones that probably do are ones that have just been introduced to football.

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I think it makes a lot of sense having the Pro Bowl this week.. As a business, there is a lapse in football entertainment and the hole is there to be filled...

The downside is when players can't make it due to being in the Superbowl.

Regardless, the Pro Bowl doesn't mean anything to me.. so I don't care when they play it.

True... but noone complained about it. Its better after the SB

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the pro bowl is so big b/c they use it to reference players for the rest of their careers and after. For example, people will refer to Smitty as "3 time pro bowler Steve Smith"

The amount of pro bowls you go to is used as a measuring stick to judge the type of player you were throughout your entire NFL career. Heck, it can even be difference in making the hall of fame or not.

And second alternates getting in, alternates getting starts, etc. is skewing that statistic anyway.

I mean, it was never a good measure before, but now some guy who might not have been as deserving can be called "the pro bowler xxxx".

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Actually it's more like All-Pro selections and Super Bowl apperances that is used to measure how good a player was. Anyone that knows football knows Pro Bowls are no way to define a player since it's a popularity contest and not that important. Only ones that probably do are ones that have just been introduced to football.

True, All-pro selections and super bowls definitely define how good a player is. But even if you go on the pro football hall of fame website, they list the amount of pro bowls each player has gone to, so obviously it's still used as a measuring stick.

Also, just b/c a player decides not to attend the pro bowl, he's still considered a pro bowler if he was initially selected, right?

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