The NFL is in town for "one last final last game," the post-season, post-Superbowl, played-in-Hawaii Pro Bowl. I got to see a lot of the NFL players at Kapiolani Park today, as they led a kids' football clinic. The game is tomorrow at Aloha Stadium.
While football fans here are excited, and many fans on the Mainland are, the game itself is taking some hits for being... well, uninteresting. The Los Angeles Times calls the Pro Bowl the NFL's sure cure for excitement.
Neighbor San Bernardino County Sun declares that it's time to throw out the Pro Bowl.
Ouch. Er... still, anyone going? Anyone planning to watch?
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While football fans here are excited, and many fans on the Mainland are, the game itself is taking some hits for being... well, uninteresting. The Los Angeles Times calls the Pro Bowl the NFL's sure cure for excitement.
And even people already in Hawaii apparently don't have much interest in the game. After 25 consecutive Pro Bowl sellouts, the NFL had to give this one an extra 24 hours to sell enough tickets at Honolulu's Aloha Stadium to avoid a local television blackout. ESPN, broadcasting the game at 4:30 p.m. PST because somebody has to, is faced with a doubly daunting task: How to manufacture buzz for a game nobody wants to play and nobody wants to watch.
Every player in the league wants to be named to the Pro Bowl. Most players even receive bonuses if they make the team. The problem is players don't actually want to play in the game, even if it is in Hawaii.
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