Colts Pro Bowler Reveals Self-Improvement Plan for 2023

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Speaking of Pro-Bowlers, the Ravens have a Pro Bowl quarterback ...... with 2 TD passes and 3 INT's on the season.



Ravens QB Tyler Huntley Selected as Pro Bowl Replacement, Despite Starting 4 Games

(By Nick Bromberg)

https://sports.yahoo.com/ravens-qb-t...141707965.html

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What a gross charade it has become.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Speaking of Pro-Bowlers, the Ravens have a Pro Bowl quarterback ...... with 2 TD passes and 3 INT's on the season.



Ravens QB Tyler Huntley Selected as Pro Bowl Replacement, Despite Starting 4 Games

(By Nick Bromberg)

https://sports.yahoo.com/ravens-qb-t...141707965.html

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Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

What a gross charade it has become.

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The Pro Bowl always was a gross charade, asking players to play an exhibition game in a brutal sport in which an injury can change the course of a player's career in a single play ...... it has gotten progressively more ridiculous over the years though, almost to the point of being on par with professional wrestling.

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[JAFF]

Its only flag football this year

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by JAFF

It's only flag football this year.

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It should have been flag-football all along, since that is essentially what it has been for decades.

My comment was not a critique of the actual danger for injuries, because there really was none ...... the players pretending to play tackle football was what made the game absurd. I would occasionally watch parts of the game out of curiosity, and the "goal-line stands" that the defense pretended to make were straight out of the WWF.

I don't blame the players for doing what they did (hardly putting up any resistance for fear of getting injured in a meaningless game), I blame the league for putting on such a farce in the first place.

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[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The Pro Bowl always was a gross charade, asking players to play an exhibition game in a brutal sport in which an injury can change the course of a player's career in a single play ...... it has gotten progressively more ridiculous over the years though, almost to the point of being on par with professional wrestling.

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I seem to remember a different kind of mentality, pride, and competition in the game even into the early (maybe mid) 2000's. They didn't go completely balls-out, crush the QB, etc. But it was a far sight from the embarrassment it's been for a while.

Surprisingly, the relative financial incentive you get for winning the Pro Bowl is actually higher now than it was in 2000. $84k for winning the Pro Bowl is about 3.1% of the average NFL salary. In 2000 you got $25k which was around 2.2%. Not the most scientific metric, but interesting.

It must be a generational thing? I mean, it happened in the NBA as well. I remember the All-Star game being more competitive and there being an East-West pride to the game. Now it's just pre-game shootarounds and a 200-198 final score.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

I seem to remember a different kind of mentality, pride, and competition in the game even into the early (maybe mid) 2000's. They didn't go completely balls-out, crush the QB, etc. But it was a far sight from the embarrassment it's been for a while.

Surprisingly, the relative financial incentive you get for winning the Pro Bowl is actually higher now than it was in 2000. $84k for winning the Pro Bowl is about 3.1% of the average NFL salary. In 2000 you got $25k which was around 2.2%. Not the most scientific metric, but interesting.

It must be a generational thing? I mean, it happened in the NBA as well. I remember the All-Star game being more competitive and there being an East-West pride to the game. Now it's just pre-game shootarounds and a 200-198 final score.

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The NBA All-Star game was a more competitive game back in the 1970's. It changed soon afterward.

The NFL Pro Bowl has always been a joke/charade, even back in the 1970's ...... it gradually got worse over the next 3 to 4 decades, but it was very bad (and noticeably so) in the first place, unlike the NBA All-Star game.

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