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There is only one sure way to make the Pro Bowl Game relevant. Don’t play it. Now how easy is that? So easy even I thought of it.
It’s become a joke. So stomp the farce out of this thing, Roger Goodell. Put it out of its misery. It’s like asking Secretariat: “Ease up, Big Red; the Belmont’s a mile-and-a-half.” It’s like yelling to Franz Klammer: “Franz, you’re going down that mountain too fast!”
Goodell, the NFL commissioner, took one look at last year’s Pro Bowl Game, saw no football being played whatsoever, and being a man of vision, said it wasn’t up to NFL standards (kind of the way he feels about exhibition games).
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