The Pro Bowl
Last year, I went on a beautiful winter hike instead of watching the Pro Bowl. This year? I plan on doing the exact same thing.
They’ve shaken things up this year, making it a draft style team instead of players from each conference. Now we can have AFC players throwing to NFC players, but ultimately it doesn’t change much of anything. The players still treat the game as a vacation, and all the important players who have been once or twice already have already declined to participate. This comic was originally featuring Calvin Johnson and Drew Brees, but I went and looked at the final roster and both dropped out, so I hastily had to edit it to be AJ Green and Rivers (making his first appearance in a non-Ringless Rivers comic!)
The Pro Bowl is a joke. It will always be a joke. Bring back skill competitions.
Oh, and the uniforms they came up for this year’s pro bowl are awful pieces of junk, in case you are wondering about what the players are wearing in the comic. I’ll be commenting on that in my weekly KissingSuzyKolber post tomorrow.
I always liked the Pro Bowl as a sort of week away from the drama of the game. Nobody cares, everyone’s just chilling and having fun, even when you tackle someone you make sure you do it in a safe way, it’s like a giant game of backyard football, but with NFL players. With how much each game can completely change a season – especially once the playoffs start where it’s win or die – a game every year that’s just pure stupid fun is refreshing. Especially before the drama game of all drama games, the Superbowl.
Also where else are you going to see a center score a touchdown?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJC_lgAuDAg
Hell, where else are you going to see a Cleveland Brown score a touchdown?
Why on earth are you awake at this hour
Why are YOU awake at this hour?
I was awake because the jackass down the street won’t go out and turn off his car alarm, and it was loud enough that I could hear it even with everything closed.
What’s YOUR excuse, Dave?
I had a goddamn comic to finish so I could entertain you people, ya bunch a ingrates
That’s right, take your shots now. The Stooges have found their Shemp, the circus rolls on. Go Browns.
NFL is now so desperate that their taking ideas from the NHL. For shame.
If they REALLY wanted to make the pro bowl worth watching, they’d play it in shorts and t-shirts and get back to the football we all used to play as kids.
Where can I buy Sexy Rexy beer?
Great comic, but just so you know, Drew Brees didn’t drop out, he was actually a captain for Team Rice, helped select the team.
Drew Brees is captain for Jerry Rices team. Brady dropped the pro bowl. I honestly kind of like the pro bowl, the game itself is pretty dull, but I think it’s cool seeing a lot of the talent in the league get together. Even if everybody doesn’t show up.
I like the Pro Bowl. I like sitting down on my sofa with my chips and dip and turning on the TV… And watching The Departed, the only time of year I get to watch it. Whoo! Pro-Bowl Weekend! And didn’t JJ Watt bust his finger open last year? That was pretty exciting. Not enough to make up for all the years of bore that preceeded it and will succeed it, but exciting nonetheless. I didn’t watch it though, I was watching The Departed.
Whoo! Pro Bowl Weekend!
What jersey is Philip Rivers supposed to be wearing? If you hadn’t named him, I don’t think I would have recognized him.
The new Pro Bowl jersey. Both of them are. AJ Green is wearing one design while Phillip Rivers is wearing the other.
Its like that kid that no body likes inviting you to a party… And all the people you hate are there… Even Roger Goodell.
Where can I buy Sexy Rexy Lite?
XD
lol be on the bench w/a 40oz all like im redy to line up at HB coach
Why would Green be on the field with a 3rd string QB of the opposing team? Immersion: Ruined.
To be honest, the Pro Bowl can get some interesting storylines going, like last year when JJ Watt lined up as wide receiver and JPP opposite him, just to see who would win in fighting for the ball (JPP won and got an interception by the way).
Or getting to see the look on Kyle Rudolph’s face when Eli threw him two touchdowns (He was like holy crap this is what having an actual NFL quarterback feels like).
And you can’t forget the heartwarming moments either, like when Jeff Saturday crossed team lines (yes they permitted this to happen) to deliver one last snap to Peyton after all those years.
2013 Pro Bowl was actually kinda nice, compared to the shit shows of the 3 previous years. Sure, I wish there was a skill competition *attached* to the pro bowl for sure, but to have it displace the game entirely, I’m not so sure. Also, I’d rather have it be based purely on statistical contributions to determine who can go and who can’t. Fan voting means the guys on bandwagon teams are over-represented. The Giants had only one pro bowler in 2007 despite winning the Super Bowl.
Can i get a sexy rexy lite, please?
Jokes on you, that was a legitimately fun Pro Bowl to watch. I turned it on to laugh at with a friend and ended up whooping and cheering for opposite teams and had a genuinely fun Sunday afternoon of football
I think the joke is on EVERYONE this year. I liked last year because I liked the storylines inherent in it that I mentioned in an above comment. This year had some interesting things. I knew it was going to be at least not terrible when I saw Derrick Johnson flat out level Jamaal Charles. That’s the event that really opened this up for me. Next thing you know, TJ Ward flips Josh Gordon over, and then you see Tolbert plowing through Kuechly. Ron Rivera had to coach a defense against Cam Newton. The whole “playing against your own” dynamic made players more likely to play harder.
On a more technical note, the fact that they allowed man coverage also helped tremendously. In zone nobody really cared about defending passes, whereas in man coverage all of a sudden DBs don’t want to be singled out as the guy who gave up a play (even Collinsworth took note of that). They still didn’t allow blitzes, but those DL were breaking through all game, so wasn’t so annoyed with that (a good balance to help out an OL that has only had a week to practice together).
tl;dr: still a long way to go, but for the most part all the changes helped improve the game from what it was. Still want to see a skill competition added on to this event, but if the game is like this moving forward, it can stay…