The Season Ain't Over Yet - Its the Pro Bowl!

Sunday afternoon the Falcons will be handsomely represented at this year's Pro Bowl by RB Michael Turner and WR Roddy White. The NFL's version of the All-Star Game will be held once more in beautiful Hawai'i. Big names like Manning, Peterson and Fitzgerald will lead the charge, while highly deserving names like Rivers, Ryan, and Romo will be watching at home (or probably not watching like the rest of us).

I don't know about you guys, but what intrigues me most about any All-Star break is the various forms of skills competition. The NBA has their Slam Dunk and Long Distance Contests, baseball has the Home Run Derby, and the NFL has a skills competition as well (pretty sure its called just that). The NCAA does this as well, and its always interesting to see how the top players in the world measure up against each other. We can argue all day about which Manning has the better fundamentals, but what if Eli went out there and smoked Peyton in the skills contest? Or The Burner blew past Adrian Peterson? Or Larry Fitzgerald was proven not to be the fastest player in the game? These are great fun to watch, and speaks directly to the reason we watch professional sports to begin with - they are the best players in the world. We don't turn on NFL games to see 30 incompletions and six interceptions, or an NBA game to see a team shoot 12% from the field. As far as I'm concerned, its all about being caught up in seeing the greatest atheletes in the world perform at the highest level. Its fascinating and awe-inspiring every time. So sure I probably won't be watching most of the Pro Bowl (gotta at least give love to Turner and White though), but I'll be staring at the skills competition wondering how on earth Drew Brees managed to throw a football into the hole of a moving target twenty yards downfield.