"Fun" In The "Sun" At The NFL Pro Bowl [Pro Bowl]

Published: February 8, 2008, 4:15 pm

The sports world has no greater spectacle than the Pro Bowl. Therefore, we dispatched Zach Everson to write about the Pro Bowl for us. He's out in Hawaii. Jerk. Here's his first dispatch; he'll file again for Monday. The Super Bowl gets covered by Will and Daulerio; the Pro Bowl gets covered by some guy who contributes to another Gawker site and just happens to be in Honolulu when the game's being played. Consider me Deadspin's Don Criqui. Originally I had no intention of going to the Pro Bowl. I watched two downs of it on TV last year. The MLB All-Star game is a classic that's significant because of baseball's history. The NBA All-Star game is, as Simmons puts it, the black Super Bowl. And it's important because this one time, Magic had The HIV, but played in the game anyway and people touched him and they didn't die (even though it was before anti-bac). But what's memorable about the Pro Bowl? Nothing other than that coaches and broadcasters wear Hawaiian shirts.

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