Talk about your sore losers.
Tom Brady and Randy Moss say they aren’t going to Hawaii for the pro bowl.
Apparently they are taking after their coach who just wants to take their ball and go home.
Granted the pro bowl is a meaningless exhibition game but it’s more of an end of season get together where rivalries can be put aside, everyone shakes hands, pats backs, and agree that it was a good season where they are all part of the NFL family.
Injuries or not, it’s not like they’re asking you to play in a real game, it’s more about making an appearance. But not for Brady and Moss. They rather mope and cry and hold a grudge.
So be it crybabies.
No comment on the general sentiment of your post, but Brady at least has an ankle injury that he would do well to get healed instead of aggravating it during a meaningless game. Dunno about Moss.
As much as I can’t stand the Patriots, I understand. 1 week is too short of a time period after perhaps the biggest heartbreak in NFL history. Solitude is what they need, not a million questions on why they lost.
I think Randy Moss’ post game interview was great and based on his personal issues I can understand why he might decide not to play. Why assume the worst?
I am not a Patriot fan but I really don’t think these 2 players not participating has anything to do with them being sore losers. If ALL of the Patriots decided not to go, well that would be another thing.
There are players every year who choose not to participate in the Pro Bowl. Most of the time it’s because of injuries…there must have been more to Tom Brady’s ankle injury after all.
As for Moss, I don’t know, but I wonder if it may have something to do with the legal troubles he’s had recently.
Actually, I’m glad that Brady won’t be there…this will give us a chance to hear about the other guys who play QB in the AFC for a change.
The Pro Bowl is the worst pile of crap in football- it’s worse than exhibition games. At least in exhibition games, you’ve got guys trying to make a team.
A free trip to Hawaii and a meaningless participation bonus from the league are not worth the risk of injury, no matter how small it might be.
The players HATE the game. I don’t like Moss or Brady, but I’m glad they have an excuse to miss this stinker.
Wait, there are others besides Favre and Manning? If the NFL commentators had their way, Favre would be the steady quarterback for both teams. 
This anti-Patriots thing is just ridiculous. I’m a fucking Giants fan and I can’t even enjoy the win because the public discourse is overloaded with people looking for any reason, no matter how tenuous and weak, to throw crap at the Patriots.
Do you know how many players, from every team, miss the Pro Bowl? Lance Briggs is missing the Pro Bowl as a “precaution;” he’s about to be a free agent. LaDanian Tomlinson isn’t playing. Don’t expect to see Antonio Gates in Hawaii, nor his team-mate Jamal Williams. Nor Troy Polamalu. Anyone else? Looks like Brett Favre won’t be showing up. Bob Sanders will be watching from home, if he watches at all. Patrick Kerney ain’t going. Like Bartleby, Jason Taylor would prefer not to. And none of those guys played an exhausting game on Sunday. Many haven’t played in at least three weeks.
But it’s Brady and Moss you single out. Grow up.
Everybody who can think of a reason pulls out of the Pro Bowl, not just these two- its really gotten to the point where they shouldn’t even bother playing it anymore. None of the big names who have been there before like going, except maybe Peyton, and if he wasn’t so image conscious he’d probably skip it too. Any tiny injury is an excuse to pull out.
In the past when players made 100K a free paid vacation to Hawaii was a big deal and everyone wanted to go, with today’s salaries even the lowest paid player can go to Hawaii or Fiji any time they want on their own dime and time, and without getting tackled and hit repeatedly when they do. Cancel the game, no one cares about it anymore.
Well, maybe I spoke too soon.
I was just reacting to this article.
I didn’t realize how many players dis the pro bowl each year.
I thought it was an affair that players didn’t like going to but did anyway to show good sportsmanship and appreciation for their jobs.
Apparently it’s optional.
Brady and Moss are the only two who withdrew a day after losing in the Super Bowl. Some of those guys don’t care about the game (well, none of them care about the game, but you know what I mean…), others had legit injuries and aren’t going to attempt a comeback for the Pro Bowl.
I couldn’t care less about what they do, but it does look like they pulled out because of the loss. Brady’s ankle clearly affected his performance Sunday, in my eyes, but I think he would have toughed out a few drives as a victory lap if they had won.
Well, Brady and Moss were IN the Super Bowl. A lot of players didn’t have that excuse and pulled out earlier. Making up an injury while you’re still in the playoffs is not a good idea.
None of them care about this game. Even people who care passionately for football don’t care about this game. This game sucks. If Brady and Moss not being there diminishes your appreciation for the game, I’d question why you were watching the game in the first place. If it doesn’t, then why piss in their Cheerios?
Even if they DID pull out because of the loss, and not because of, say, a nagging ankle injury being exacerbated by having the living shit kicked out of one, or, say, a not-so-timely spate of legal trouble, who gives a shit? Everybody pulls out of the Pro Bowl.
I’m aware.
You’d have to ask the OP. I don’t care either way. It does make them look a little whiny, if that’s how it went down, but I can’t think of a way to interpret it as a big deal.
Keith Olbermann ranted against Fox Sports for not making a big enough deal of Brady’s ankle injury. Olbermann claimed he could see the decline in Brady’s performance “from my living room.” And if Olbermann could see it, it must have been pretty darned obvious.
Oh, right – jeopardize the remaining years of his career by playing in a meaningless crapfest just so he can grab a shred more media glory – sure, that makes perfect sense.
I know, going for a little media attention sounds totally out of character for that wallflower Brady. 
No way would he have wanted to soak up the glory of finishing a perfect season by spending some time in Hawaii. Must’ve been a moment of insanity on my part.
And he wouldn’t have jeopardized his career. Get real. He had a sprained ankle. It may have been a worse sprain than he let on, but that’s not going to threaten his career, especially in a game with no actual defense. I think he was healthy enough to beat most teams on Sunday, just not the one he was playing.
I’m a **Giants ** fan. I could care less about the pair pulling out of this. Who cares about the Pro-Bowl anyway?
Doesn’t have to be Brady’s ankle that gets hurt, Marley. Could happen that his shoulder really IS injured during the game, or the other ankle, or whatever. Why should he take hits in a meaningless game? Why should any of the players have to run through this farce? The season’s over, everybody’s taken months of physical punishment. Time to let them all go home, rest and recover, spend some downtime having fun whatever way they choose instead of putting their bodies – the commodity they earn their living with – at risk for what?
If this is supposed to be an honor, why not just announce the picks as the season’s Dream Teams, give them all a nice plaque, and be done with it?
I didn’t think anyone did. Heck, this is the most I’ve heard about it in ten years. 
His shoulder is fine.
The game is a waste of time, and I’ll never say otherwise. I’m not suggesting Brady has some kind of moral obligation to play in the Pro Bowl. The thing is a joke. But I do think he’s probably skipping it because the team lost. This is the first I’ve heard of Moss having an ankle injury, too.