Bear Goggles On » hall of fame http://beargoggleson.com A Chicago Bears Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Thu, 23 May 2013 18:03:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Time to Change the Pro Bowl http://beargoggleson.com/2010/01/29/time-to-change-the-pro-bowl/ http://beargoggleson.com/2010/01/29/time-to-change-the-pro-bowl/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:30:22 +0000 Boomer http://beargoggleson.com/?p=4736 The NFL is doing their level best to make chicken salad out of chicken shit when it comes to the Pro Bowl.  By moving the Pro Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl, the NFL is trying to increase the visibility and increase fan interest.  It’s not working.  The best players on the best [...]

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]]> The NFL is doing their level best to make chicken salad out of chicken shit when it comes to the Pro Bowl.  By moving the Pro Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl, the NFL is trying to increase the visibility and increase fan interest.  It’s not working.  The best players on the best teams  – in this case the Colts and Saints - have pulled out of the game.  This only adds to an already extensive list of players who pull out of the game with injuries both major and minor.

Let’s get this out of the way up front – there is no way to make the intensity of the Pro Bowl anywhere near that of a real NFL game.   It’s an exhibition game featuring the best players who want no part of an offseason injury that could cost them a season.  I can’t disagree.  How angry would you be if Lance Briggs blew an ACL playing in a meaningless game?

So what can be done to try to at least increase fan interest?  Follow the jump for my idea.

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]]> Super Bowl XX MVP Richard Dent was denied in his fifth bid for enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Dent, of course, was an integral cog of the ferocious Bears defense of the 80′s. All-time sacks leader Bruce Smith was selected in his first year of eligibility along with Wide receiver Bob Hayes, guard Randall McDaniel, linebacker Derrick Thomas, owner Ralph Wilson, and defensive back Rod Woodson to make up the Class of 2009 Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinees.

Dent’s time is definitely coming and I have no doubt that he will take his rightful place alongside teammates Mike Singletary and Dan Hampton from the vaunted ’85 Bears defense. The Colonel was a 4-time Pro Bowler and 1 time All Pro. At the time of his retirement, he was third all time with 137.5 sacks, behind Hall of Famers Reggie White and Bruce Smith.

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