OK. I ducked into that thread, but didn’t care to stick around.
I know these boards have some preferences I don’t fully understand WRT hijacks and forum-specific rules, but it seems curious that there is not a single thread about the halftime show, given as much discussion as there has been about it. Instead, it is spread across a game room thread about the game - and I suppose the commercials/pregame/halftime, and a CS thread about the alternative halftime.
The Cafe Society thread became the thread about the halftime show, which I guess was inevitable.
Apparently, no one thought to create one.
We almost didn’t even create a Superbowl thread at all. The game room thread was created something like 20 minutes before kickoff.
I’ve made a huge mistake
I was going to make a Pro Bowl thread, then it was pointed out that nobody cared about it, and I realized I didn’t either.
I am not happy, so you are not allowed to be happy either.
I think the final score was
SomeRandomGuys 4326 OtherRandomGuys 3983
so, you know, a real defensive battle.
What’s a Pro Bowl?
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I haven’t watched any part of one since the 1970s.
And, it hasn’t even been a formal football game for several years now, as the league realized that players didn’t want to risk injury, and it no longer even remotely felt like a competitive football game.
Now, the “Pro Bowl Games” are a set of skills competitions, and a flag football game.
Skills competitions, okay that sounds a little more interesting. But a flag football game? Not interested in watching that.
What is clear to me is that the NFL doesn’t want to give up TV time, and even if the “Pro Bowl” is now football-adjacent stuff, they know that a fairly large number of fans will watch anything football-related.
The NFL, it’s a business, and if any demand is there they’ll provide some supply.
Absolutely the truth, and one big reason why my love for the game has become dulled lately.
I think the “Pro Bowl” should be an awards ceremony, sort of like the Academy Awards for football players. That’s all people care about anyway; who made it, not what actually happens at the Pro Bowl. They’d have to change the format though, where players get nominated but don’t find out who won until the event.
Just my 2 cents.
I think the skills competition is fun. I haven’t watched it in a few years but I like, for example, accuracy competitions where quarterbacks try to hit a target like an olympic archer or something.
Does the archer get to shoot back at the quarterback?
but aren’t there flag-football games now?
No, but the football flies like a banana.
Did you read the posts above that one??
I meant don’t we have ON-GOING flag-football games