Does a Pro Bowl Berth Mean Anything?

With players turning down Pro Bowl spots because of "injuries", Vince Young will be on the AFC roster. Worse still, if the Colts make the Super Bowl, we could see Kyle Orton or David Garrard as their #3 QB.

Take a look at the current roster again. Sometimes the injury replacements seem to rectify some of the snubs (Clay Matthews, Brandon Meriweather); sometimes they are just confusing and sad (AFC QB's, NFC CB's).

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The short answer is no

It doesn’t seem to matter who’s voting, either. These things just turn out terribly.

The problem is that Pro Bowls, All-Star Games, etc. are weighed so heavily in Hall of Fame voting, which ends up killing worthy candidates sometimes. Considering writers come up with smug columns every year about how bad the Pro Bowl voting is, you’d think they’d be semi-capable of taking that into consideration when they take an entire body of work into account.

by Dave Choate on Jan 22, 2010 4:53 PM EST reply actions

To me, no

Football and all star games just don’t mix. If I was Tom Brady, I wouldn’t want to play in the game. Why risk injury in an exhibition no one cares about just so ESPN has something marginally more interesting to show than the worlds strongest man reruns. I am slightly more interested since its not after the superbowl…but not by much

by zooker on Jan 23, 2010 8:39 PM EST reply actions