Pro Bowl Backlash

This past Sunday Orlando, Florida hosted the Pro Bowl, a gathering of the year's best players from each conference. In the past the Pro Bowl was a fun, high-scoring game in which each player put out the best to prove who the better players were. However, things have definitely changed from the past games.

Throughout the game it was quite noticeable that player did not care about the game and showed a lackluster performance. This did not sit well with NFL fans and this topic exploded on Twitter. The defense of players is that they do not want the risk getting hurt for their next season for a game being played for a small prize. The prize being at most $64,000 dollars max is a small comparison to the money the make already. Another decline in recent years of the Pro Bowl's popularity is the switch of playing the game before the Super Bowl. The reason for this is now that the some of the season's best players are now unable to play in the Pro bowl because they cannot get injured before the Super Bowl.

Another big issue that happened after the game is that when Jason Witten broke the trophy in half when trying to pick it up. The reason that this happen is because it is only a plastic trophy. This caused NFL fans to add to their complaints about the Pro Bowl saying that the NFL does not care and is just interested in the money that they put into the sport.

It is very obvious that the NFL is going to need to find and implement some changes to the Pro Bowl in some capacity in order to keep their fans happy. As a football player and a fan of the NFL it is hard for me to watch a game where players do not show any passion and it seems to almost a joke.