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01/31 2011

NFL.com May Want To Reconsider Posting AP Content About The Pro Bowl

Posted by Dan Levy.

After catching the first few minutes of the Pro Bowl, it was on to more interesting TV viewing on Sunday night like re-runs of shows we’d missed earlier in the season, DVR’d dramas and Episodes with Matt LeBlanc, on Showtime.

The second half of a blowout Pro Bowl that eventually became a cosmetically-close game was just not in the cards on Sunday night, despite the fact that it was football and we only have one game left before, perhaps, the longest off-season in quite some time.

I wasn’t the only one who thought the game was a drag. The tweets of a blowout were quite hilarious, yes, but nothing compares to the rip job done by the writer for the Associated Press (in part):

The NFC’s 55-41 victory, a game not nearly as interesting as that score might suggest, did nothing to repair the tattered image of the NFL’s all-star contest.

Yikes! Where was this linked? ON THE NFL’S WEBSITE, that’s where. The slam piece continues:

AFC quarterbacks Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning and Matt Cassel threw first-half interceptions as the NFC blew open a 42-0 lead in a performance ugly even by the historically low standards of this game.

Pro Bowls are, by their nature, laid-back affairs, seemingly played at half speed by players whose biggest concern is to get on the plane home without injury. The AFC took that attitude to an uncomfortable extreme early, then outscored the NFC, 41-13, over the last two minutes of the first and all of the second half.

Either the NFL needs to do a better job of grabbing AP content for their website or they think the Pro Bowl is as uninteresting as the rest of us do. Methinks they’ll start having one of their staff writers do a game story starting next season.

Here’s the full screen grab, in case it’s eventually updated (click to enlarge).

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