Thoughts on Pro Bowl

     This year, the Pro Bowl format was changed. We had a team picked by Jerry Rice against a team picked by Deion Sanders. If you didn't watch the game, (you most likely didn't), I'll tell you this, it wasn't that bad. This year's Pro Bowl was much better than other Pro Bowls in past years. Defense was actually played and the game was fairly competitive. The first half of this game was better than any other Pro Bowl that I have

seen. The energy started to fade away in the third quarter and through the first half of the fourth quarter. The whole teammate vs teammate aspect was really interesting. We saw Derrick Johnson go at it to Jaamal Charles, who was recovering from a concussion, and we also saw Mike Tolbert go at it against Luke Kuechly. The game came down to the wire and it was a DeMarco Murray TD and a Mike Tolbert 2-pt conversion that gave Team Rice the 22-21 win over Team Sanders. On that last drive, it really seemed like a football movie. Team Rice got the TD and it was like that moment in the movie where the coach says, "so guys what do we do?", and the players tell the coach that we go for the win and that is what Team Rice did. What I will keep saying is that this Pro Bowl wasn't that bad, and that the NFL should keep this format because it seemed like the players were trying for one reason and one reason only. They didn't want to disappoint two legends in Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders. That's all I can really say about the Pro Bowl. It wasn't that bad, the players were trying, and the first half was pretty fun.