Kyle Vanden Bosch Added to the Pro Bowl Roster
by Jimmy on Jan 25, 2010 8:53 AM CST
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PrintThis is getting a little ridiculous. Look, I love KVB as much as anyone outside of August, but he did not have a Pro Bowl season this year. It is time for the NFL to shut this game down. I am not saying don't name Pro Bowl teams, but when David Garrard makes the Pro Bowl in a season where he had 15 touchdown passes and 10 interceptions, and Boom King 3 sacks, the game is the laughing stock of pro all-star games (and that is saying something).
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they at least need to realize having the PB the week before the SB is a bad, dumb idea. You take a game where players seem to find excuses to not play anyway, and put it the week before a lot of players will be in the most important game of the season. smart move….
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Surely Goodell et al. knew this
Obviously the two teams that make it to the Super Bowl are going to have a few Pro-Bowl players on their rosters and hence not play them in the Pro-Bowl. Yet Goodell did this anyway to make the Pro-Bowl seem more…relevant? Stupid.
by DoofusOfErasmus on Jan 25, 2010 11:17 AM CST up reply actions
that was the worst idea goodell has ever had
i was playing madden way back in september and checked my franchise schedule to find that the pro bowl BEFORE the super bowl. i seriously thought it was a game error.
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 2:10 PM CST up reply actions
the Pro Bowl has become the equivalent of the now defunct
Blue-Gray Game in college football.
Remember that one? Basically, only the seniors from teams that didn’t make it to a bowl. I always called it the “Vandy Bowl.”
"And with the 15th pick, the Tennessee Titans select..."
I think the complaining is overdone
People gripe about every sport’s All-Star game. The NBA game is a no-defense street ball game where the often ridiculous fan voting reigns supreme. Occasionally, there will be real competition for the final 2 minutes if it’s close.
In baseball, which lends itself much easier to quality play in this type of event, we complain if they treat it like an exhibition and end it in a tie or take it too seriously and let it determine home field advantage for the World Series.
In the vicious sport that is football, we complain when deserving people pass and less deserving but more eager people play. It’s not the All-Pro team and the selection criteria is pretty good if you ask me; the best guys who want to play are the ones who play. I’ve got no beef with guys turning down invites, and I’ve got no beef with KVB and David Garrard playing if that’s how it plays out. And we’ll see how the week before the SB thing plays out… but it very well may make the game a lot more relevant to Joe Fan regardless of the level of talent, and I wouldn’t be shocked to see the increased interest translate into a higher level of play/player interest down the line.
Bottom line, with pretty short windows for these guys careers, I enjoy every incremental moment to watch them play.
if if when you see them play in said games
they clearly don’t give a damn?
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 2:11 PM CST up reply actions
The nfl should hold the pro bowl in london
AFTER the superbowl. It makes more sense than having a regular season game over there, and it let’s them see the best players in the league. Besides, real nfl fans don’t give a sh*t about the pro bowl.
by vancouverTITAN on Jan 25, 2010 10:51 AM CST via mobile reply actions
man, trading Hawaii for London
talk about a lose, lose situation weather-wise.
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by August West on Jan 25, 2010 11:47 AM CST up reply actions
No joke
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 11:56 AM CST up reply actions
It would sell out in london
by vancouverTITAN on Jan 25, 2010 1:14 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Is it a real concern on whether the pro bowl sells out or not?
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 1:23 PM CST up reply actions
Is it a real concern if they even have it at all?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 1:53 PM CST up reply actions
Nope.
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and venue wise
the fields are complete crap
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 2:02 PM CST up reply actions
I don't remember who suggested it
But maybe changing it to a fictitious team is the way to go, kinda like they name the All-Pros now, but those guys don’t actually ever play one another.
The only draw was that is was in Hawaii after the SB...
And now there is no draw.
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by BonzosMontreaux on Jan 25, 2010 11:29 AM CST reply actions
THe pro bowl is useless
I repeat my yearly complaint, and yearly suggestion that they replace the game with a week full of fun, irrelevant contests in Hawaii for the winners (throw the ball through the hoop, race Chris Johnson, dunk Favre, trash talking contest, etc.).
I also repeat my annual complaint that voting not start until week 10 or so and that they at least try to limit fan voting in some way to one vote per individual.
I’ll copy and paste this post sometime in January, 2011.
Hey numbertenox, I've got an idea......
why don’t they let the cheerleaders from each team play each other, kinda like a tourney….the winners from each bracket advance and after the 2nd day we would have a championship game…and instead of Hawaii, they could have it in Vegas…yeah, that’s the ticket!!!
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:00 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
+1
cheerleader football is g
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 2:03 PM CST up reply actions
I think I've seen that show
or maybe that was lingerie football.
Including cheerleaders in pro-bowl contests would be awesome.
Get rid of the game, substitute fun stuff. It’d get week-long ratings higher than the pro-bowl game by a lot.
It’s supposed to be a reward for the players and the fans. The boring game with increasingly un-pro-bowl-worthy players is not working as a reward for anyone, clearly.
Smash just told me that if 2 more qbs drop out
Then Jamarcus Russell is in the Pro Bowl.
I say we make that happen. That would just solidify the stature of the Pro Bowl.
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Someone call Garrard and Schaub
Tell them that the Pro Bowl is in Hawaii after the Super Bowl…maybe they’ll buy it.
by crazylegs28 on Jan 25, 2010 12:00 PM CST up reply actions
How many have to drop for me to get in the Pro Bowl?
I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms.
by DonFrancisco on Jan 25, 2010 12:48 PM CST up reply actions
Hey, I wanted to kick...SHOOT!!!!!
No chance of the kickers dropping out, huh?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:03 PM CST up reply actions
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Kerry Collins added to pro bowl roster after AFC runs out of starting QB’s to send. Billy Volek, Bubby Brister, and 83 year old Y.A. Tittle are next it line if Collins were to drop out.
Do you mind if we dance with your dates?
more breaking news:
it appears as though elvis will be playing quarterback for the NFC this year after garnering over 200,000 write-in votes
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 2:08 PM CST up reply actions
Tupac
Too soon man
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it's always too soon for tupac
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 4:13 PM CST up reply actions
the pro bowl is a joke because those who are invited don't want to do it
the nba all star game is a joke because those who do shouldn’t have been invited.
which is worse?
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Yao, Allen Iverson and Tracy McGrady getting votes
is far more embarrassing than the NFL’s Pro Bowl debacle.
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I think Don Francisco would be the best qb
I mean, he is only 1 Pro Bowl spot worse than Jamarcus Russell
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by gramsey712 on Jan 25, 2010 2:32 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Okay, then where do we put August & Jimmy?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:35 PM CST up reply actions
Rec'd
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by DonFrancisco on Jan 25, 2010 3:25 PM CST up reply actions
Jimmy has seen me play QB
I got an arm, but I am worse than early season John Crompton. Still, I think I may make the Pro Bowl.
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by DonFrancisco on Jan 25, 2010 3:27 PM CST up reply actions
Okay Don....you're our QB...
so where do we put hal & Superhorn?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 3:31 PM CST up reply actions
He does have a cannon
but it is only good for about 5 throws
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Coaches?
Hal can be our statistically minded DC who may move on to a HC job with a franchise that always loses. Superhorn can be our loose cannon DB coach with a history of violence who somehow takes over for the previous DC with mixed results
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by DonFrancisco on Jan 25, 2010 3:35 PM CST up reply actions
agreed, at least the fans got the voting right the first time for the pro bowl
if everyone had stuck around and gone the lineup would look pretty good.
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 4:14 PM CST up reply actions
If MCM ever put a team together....
and we played against other team’s bloggers…would you guys let me kick?
Only if...
You let me play Wide Receiver. (I promise I won’t drop any more passes than Nate Washington).
That statement just disqualified you :-)
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:18 PM CST up reply actions
I will play CB
Cause I can get burned constantly and miss tackles like Nick Harper.
And I am much cheaper.
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Okay then, you're a cb...Antoniemey is a wide receiver....
who’s gonna fill the other spots?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:25 PM CST up reply actions
I'll be DT
I’ll be dominating sometimes, take plays off sometimes, stomp on a guy’s head and then ultimately leave for Hogs Haven for a fat contract.
gimme the return spot and other corner
ill tear it up on the field, then beat up a stripper, smoke some weed then ride off into the sunset to the promised land of pro wrestling.
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 4:18 PM CST up reply actions
But just think about it.....
you guys would be out there banging heads for 3 hours while I’m kicking balls into a net :-) ….then I come out there & kick the game winner & you guys carry me off the field on your shoulders!!
Unless you miss
and then we all hate you.
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Only gramsey would hate me....
he is our official hater, you know.
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:34 PM CST up reply actions
C'mon man...
I thought we were tight.
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:38 PM CST up reply actions
We are
It’s nothing personal. Big Tuna might fire me if I started to lighten up on the hatin’.
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Hey, what does Jimmy run a forty in?
I’m thinking MAYBE he could be our RB>>>>>>>>>
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:41 PM CST up reply actions
Eddie Berlin would have to be a WR, not a RB
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 2:47 PM CST up reply actions
I almost forgot about you, dude...
where do we put you?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:48 PM CST up reply actions
LAS on that
I’ll be the coach, that way when we lose 59-0 everybody can blame me despite the real reason we lost is because our best player is Eddie Berlin. I’ll take the hit just for you guys. That’s how much you mean to me.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 2:53 PM CST up reply actions
I am LAS trying to think what jersey you will put on to "feel like a winner"
Odds are great that it WILL NOT be Peyton Manning.
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Several choices
Brett Favre – to feel what it’s like choke myself (David Caradine jersey would work, except he doesn’t have one)
Mark Sanchez – feel like Jamarcus Russell
David Garrard – to feel like a Pro Bowler
Mark Brunell – to feel what its like to be in the Super Bowl
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 3:01 PM CST up reply actions
I was absolutely astonished that Mark Brunell was still in the NFL
I had to rewind my dvr like 5 times just to make sure I wasn’t seeing things.
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me too
I guess if you can’t beat the Titans, just go to the NFC and back up a really good QB.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 3:03 PM CST up reply actions
or, you know
he can be the mascot
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by Aditya T (smashville) on Jan 25, 2010 2:57 PM CST up reply actions
Well I'm not likin the way this team is shaping up, I'll tell you that right now...
We’ve got a kicker who is questionable fron outside of 45yds….2 overpaid water boys…a cb who can’t catch a cold…..a wide out who can’t catch period….and a coach who lacks any kind of optimism at all (and who is WAAAAAY over rated….I not liking this AT ALL!!!
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:55 PM CST up reply actions
If we get Peyton Manning at QB, it won't matter
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 2:57 PM CST up reply actions
Only if we get sombody to block for him.
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 2:57 PM CST up reply actions
I like our team
and with me at coach we’d go for it on almost every 4th down, blitz a lot, and onside kick it every time.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 3:02 PM CST up reply actions
Don't forget sign the greatest punter eva
AJ Trapasso
And fake punt every time. CAUSE HE DOES NOTHING BUT SCORE!!!!!!!111111
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Absolutely
We also wouldn’t have a punt returner. We’d just let the ball lie wherever it lands and try to block every punt.
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 3:04 PM CST up reply actions
Well I don't like it one bit....
I wonder if those boys over at Big Red need a kicker?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 3:12 PM CST up reply actions
Kris Brown is their kicker. What do you think?
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by T--Rac's Posse on Jan 25, 2010 3:23 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, the thought of that made me queeeeesy.....
okay then, smash could be our RB and hal could be our QB…where do we put Superhorn?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 3:25 PM CST up reply actions
And how about....
someone to play next to you…we can’t have you on the D-line all by yourself?
by titansfan4ever on Jan 25, 2010 3:34 PM CST up reply actions
i gotcha covered a few comments up ^^
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 4:21 PM CST up reply actions
sounds a lot like a madden strategy to me...
i like it.
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by danielreese05 on Jan 25, 2010 4:21 PM CST up reply actions
My patent pending idea...
Move the probowl to the Hall of Fame game the next season. In this way we celebrate the best the NFL has to offer around the weekend where we honor the best players of all time. Plus no more stupid 5th preseason game for two teams and you have an excuse for all the players to play just a quarter and no one feels shafted.
Pro Bowl Idea
Every player has to play as themselves in a giant Madden game. This way anybody could play regardless of injury, unless the injury is to one of their hands. Even the super bowl players could play. They dont even have to find a sponsor….EA. Players could even play from home, so travel wouldnt be an issue.
I’m an early bird and a night owl. So I’m wise and I have worms.
Wait
I’m a really good punt and kick returner, and I play CB, RB, and WR.
Special teams covered now.
The Pro Bowl game needs to go away
Like Jimmy said, name the All-Pro teams, but the game itself is worthless.
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