More Vikings Decline Pro Bowl Invite
The tally is now at five for the number of Vikings who have declined their Pro Bowl invites. Today, Kevin Williams and Sidney Rice joined Brett Favre, Antoine Winfield and Percy Harvin as Pro Bowlers who won't be participating in the game. So the Pro Bowl just got even more boring.
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"So the Pro Bowl just got even more boring"
That is possible? Seriously I don’t fault our guys one bit for withdrawing. How could you possibly get yourself up for a meaningless game 1 week after you just suffered the emotional equivalent of a sonic boom from Guile to the nutsack?
by Jepp The Viking on Jan 26, 2010 4:10 PM CST reply actions 4 recs
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For the Street Fighter reference. But I know what you mean it I would think it is hard to want to play in a game that has no meaning after that kind of loss. That and I am hoping this kind of thing brings the Pro Bowl back to Hawaii. It is the only pro football I get to see live.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
- Benjamin Franklin
Seriously…the Pro Bowl has been a joke for years. This year its gone to a new level though…I mean David Garrard as a pro bowl QB? Comeon man!
Seriously....you're right....
….I mean Aaron Rodgers starting for the NFC as a pro bowl QB? Comeon man!
They should just cancel
This has really become a joke. I guess this what you get from the same organization that hires terrible zebras and I am not talking about Sundays crew. Every game there are blatent bad calls and missed calls. With my purple eyes they seem to be mostly against the Vikings but I have seem them during other games as well.
Skol
by SouthernNorseman on Jan 26, 2010 4:44 PM CST via mobile reply actions
"this has really become a joke"...
… no kidding. 8 AFC QBs will be able to claim to be “pro bowlers” this year. It’s always been bad, but the decision to move it in front of the Superbowl and eliminate a significant pool of the best players (those in the Superbowl), it’s obviously compounding the problem that no one wants to play in the game. They could scrap it entirely, though I doubt the league will pass on the paycheck they get from the network (no matter how small). Just move it back to the week after the Superbowl, put it back in Hawaii (or somewhere else the players actually want to go), and try to figure out some other way to make it less sucky.
What begins in fear usually ends in folly.
by Ted Simmons Speed Camp on Jan 26, 2010 6:50 PM CST up reply actions
Ouch Percy
I was looking forward to actually watching that complete sham of a game this year because of you. Well I guess not.
And there has only been one meaningful moment in Pro Bowl histoy when you could actually say “I was watching that!!!” Here it is. R.I.P
Ace Deuce- Tell me that is not the coolest nickname ever....... Okayyy maybe "Purple Moses" beats it. :)
by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Jan 26, 2010 5:03 PM CST reply actions
without even looking at the video, i have a feeling its sean taylor killing the punter?
smoke em' if you got em'
YUP! I love that one
Ace Deuce- Tell me that is not the coolest nickname ever....... Okayyy maybe "Purple Moses" beats it. :)
by Percy Harvin My Fav! on Jan 27, 2010 3:07 PM CST up reply actions
Roger Goodell is an idiot. We just lost the championship game yeah we really want to go down to miami and psych ourselves up for the pro bowl. So dumb having it before the Super Bowl.
"If at first you don't succeed - Skydiving isn't for you"
I couldn't agree more
Roger Goodell is an idiot.
"I said this early on that this was a good football team, they just maybe had to have a stick put in certain parts of their body to play a little harder in certain places to where we’re able to take interceptions and score touchdowns."--Gregg Williams
by David "Satch" Kelly on Jan 26, 2010 5:52 PM CST up reply actions
What were they thinking...
Oh yeah, they weren’t.
The question is not: Could we make extra money if a UFO landed in Miami just prior to the Super Bowl?
The questions are
1. If the players in the Super Bowl won’t play, then are you really displaying the best talent of the NFL anyway?
2. Do the elected players who just lost in the Conference Championships and are now physically and emotionally drained really feel like appearing on the same field where they might have played in the Super Bowl?
3. Is anyone really interested in talking about who is going to win the Pro Bowl when they just discovered who is matching up in the Super Bowl?
4. Every player, their spouses, and their kids were all tired of going to Hawaii, weren’t they?
Hint: The answer to all four of these has two letters in it, which appear adjacently in their alphabetical order, at the beginning of the second half, which has as much football relevance as the Pro Bowl scheduling does.
by Elgar on Jan 26, 2010 6:47 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I think I get the idea behind it but it clearly failed. The problem is that they don’t take away the motivation for these guys. So they can turn it down but they still get recognized for it and probably still get paid their bonuses. Why would you play then? The fans don’t care so you can’t even say its for that reason. i think its time to make it into a paper thing…skip the game. None of us care anyway so name the Pro Bowl team and then simulate it on Madden and move on! haha
I care
And I’m a fan. Roger Goodell didn’t ruin the Pro Bowl. The players, fans and coaches did. I think it started when guys got in on name recognition only. Take Tom Brady this year: he underperformed this season and didn’t do as well as Schaub or Berger but he got in anyways. If he knows he’s going to make it next year either way, why play this year? It got worse when the coaches didn’t give it their all. But the worst thing that happened to it was bad ratings. Then everybody stopped caring. So I for one, am going to watch the Pro Bowl this year. And I’m going to watch it next year. And I’m going to express indignation when players from my team who get elected reject the oppurtunity to play in the Pro Bowl, because I always want to see players from my team play football. THAT’S WHY I WATCH FOOTBALL. But yeah, Goodell moving the Pro Bowl may not have been the best idea. BUt it did accomplish one thing: People are talking about the Pro Bowl for the first time in a long time.
by Donald Driver on Jan 28, 2010 2:08 AM CST up reply actions
The Pro Bowl is dead
regardless when it’s played. The players only care about the nomination, not the actual game. I’m sure Jets and Vikings Pro Bowl electees didn’t say after Sunday how the silver lining is they go to the Pro Bowl.
Think about the game played after the Super Bowl? Everyone has moved on from football by the time it’s played.
can I go?
If you can't laugh at yourself... Who can you laugh at?
The Packers, that’s who.
-- The almighty Manimal
Only if I decline
I’m 36th in line for NFC quarterback because I voted for myself 3 times and my mom wrote me in too. I hear your 37th. I might have something going on that day though, so in all likelihood it could fall to you since I think we’re already down to the 12th alternate and I’m pretty sure that’s because no one has been able to get a hold of them so they could decline yet.
A good coach makes his team better, he doesn’t wait for a better team to make him look good.
I'll keep my fingers crossed
If you can't laugh at yourself... Who can you laugh at?
The Packers, that’s who.
-- The almighty Manimal
The thing about the Pro Bowl is that it means nothing.
With the MLB’s All-Star game, they’re at least playing for home field advantage in the World Series. It means something and actually has an effect on their season. Until the NFL makes the Pro Bowl mean something besides showing off, it’s going to be pointless.
"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver
But what kind of relevance can they put into it?
I mean, it’s not as if the Pro Bowl could determine and “home-field advantage” or whatnot, and that’s all the MLB game does influence.
The Pro Bowl is stuck as it is, and that is as a game that couldn’t be more meaningless.
by FloridaownsFSU on Jan 28, 2010 5:23 PM CST up reply actions
I would be surprised!!
If even one of our guys played in that game…. I didn’t think about it before… but playing 1 week before the Super Bowl, takes out players not just from the S.Bowl, but fro Championship games as well. As Jeep said, its pointless… I bet the lure of Hawaii was the reason why more guys didn’t bail before!!
I bet the lure of Hawaii was the reason why more guys didn’t bail before!!
I know I’ve read many times over the years about players using a pro bowl berth as a way to take their whole family on a nice vacation. I doubt it changed a whole lot of minds, but I’ll bet there are at least a few guys that backed out simply because it was in Miami and not Hawaii.
If you can't laugh at yourself... Who can you laugh at?
The Packers, that’s who.
-- The almighty Manimal
"What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
Long time, no talk...
Just did a ’shop at WCG, wanted to send you a link. ;)
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"Newbie, if the next two words out of your mouth aren't 'See ya' then the third word will be 'Oh my god. My crotch. You've punched me in my crotch." - Dr. Percival Ulysses Cox
by David Taylor on Jan 27, 2010 3:58 PM CST up reply actions
What, no Bears at the party?
Or are they on kitchen duty?
"What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women."
what are you talkin' about?
It’s our party, we throw it every year! So, yeah… on kitchen duty sounds about right.
I do a weekly ’shop over there now, if you ever find yourself in my neck of the woods.
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"Newbie, if the next two words out of your mouth aren't 'See ya' then the third word will be 'Oh my god. My crotch. You've punched me in my crotch." - Dr. Percival Ulysses Cox
by David Taylor on Jan 27, 2010 6:18 PM CST up reply actions
Pro Bowl..
It would be nice if this game meant something. It woudl be nice if players were excited to go to it. But there are to many reasons why the NFL isn’t like the MLB or even the NBA. The risk of injury is high so most do not want to play at full speeds. Also football is a team game where you need to know what every one is doing around you. A QB and a receiver is not a good match up unless they’ve been practicing together. An offensive line will have no idea how to work toegether which mean sack fest. Pretty much you get a substandard set of play just like you did back when I played in the all state team in PA. Fun game but really?
Good for the Vikings!
I hope they all decline it. They got the honor of the nomination, actually playing in the game means little, gains them little, and plays along with Goodell’s agenda.
An aside… surely the Strib can find some ‘Access Vikings’ writers who are Vikings fans, can’t they? Send Chip and Judd back to Green Bay.
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming!
SKOL!
I dont see how they could play football after the New Orleans game
Its time to get back to basics guys… We have 3 things needed to win
1. Good running game
2. Solid WR’s
3. Good coach (yes, chilly has increased his win total by 2 every year he has been here)
3 things that keep us from being really good
1. Offensive line
2. Defensive Secondary
3. Turnovers, turnoverss, turnovers, turnovers
I hope Adrian cancells too…… I dont know if I can really like him again until next year
SKOL VIKINGS……
Oh, and another thing…the pro bowl kinda sucks these days
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