Sporting Events Prince Shouldn't Watch: The Pro Bowl [Alan's Sunday Recommendations]

What is the Pro Bowl? It's the NFL's attempt at an all-star game. Now most professional sports hold their all-star games at the mid-point of their seasons, when people are still paying attention to their sports. The NFL traditionally plays the Pro Bowl the week after the Super Bowl, rendering it completely irrelevant and almost universally ignored. I don't even know any NFL fans who actually watch the game. Mostly it's an excuse for all the players to take a trip to Hawaii.

Except this year the game will be played in Miami, the host city of the Super Bowl, the first time in 30 years it's been played outside of the Aloha State. They've also moved the game to the week before the Super Bowl, making it today. Already it's garnered more attention than any Pro Bowl ever.

But Prince still shouldn't watch it. I know. He was planning to watch it. He's printed up his Pro Bowl Party invitations and made a "Go NFC" T-shirt for Pork Chop to wear and everything, but I keep telling him it's a waste of time. Pro football is an intense physical game that's really only worth watching when something is at stake, when you can watch the best players in the world pushing themselves to the limits of their physical abilities and beyond. No one will do that in the Pro Bowl. No one's watching. Nothing's at stake. No player is going to risk a career-ending injury in a meaningless PR stunt of a game.

So don't bother, Prince. I know you're heartbroken, but you still might be able to return the Pro Bowl paper party plates as long as you haven't opened them yet.

[Alan Goy also blogs at Experiment Farm.]