Welcome back, football fans, to our quasi-professional football picks!
Who cares about the Pro Bowl? Well, no one. But in case you were planning on placing a bet on this hug-fest of football, here are our picks!
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
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American Football Conference @ National Football Conference
LINE: EVEN
Steve Elle: In the most glorious, competitive all star game in all modern sports, the conferences square off against each other on the unfrozen tundra of the University of Hawaii’s Rainbow Warrior stadium. Two predictions: first, this will be a low scoring affair. Pro Bowl rules make it VERY hard for teams to score. The level of competitiveness will be very intense, typically more so than in the playoffs. Secondly, there is no earthly way the NFC can win. The AFC is too strong and too deep. AFC in a blowout: 14-7. Pick: AFC-LOSS
Rob Wheatley: So let me get this straight, this game is sort of an end of term sports day. The two teams are hurriedly cobbled together for a televised custard pie fight just in order to make this year’s non-achieving teams feel better, and to bleed some more cash from the sponsors, probably.
Now if this happened in Britain, it would be one of the most brutal and one-sided displays of gore, violence and humiliation imaginable. That’s because if us UK fans were allowed to choose the teams, we would certainly pitch the strongest bunch of players against a team of the weakest, least talented and useless pile of Twonks currently playing in the leaque.
We would revel in the embarrassment as players’ confidences were destroyed, players previously expressing hatred for each other would be forced to become team-mates. in short it would be a perfect chance for the fans to bring the over-paid, over-hyped and moronically two-dimensional stars of the game to account. On live TV. Just for laughs. Actually, I’m looking forward to this one now. Go ANC, Free Nelson Mandella ! Sorry, who’s playing again ? Oh, ok… Pick: NFC-WIN
RECORDS
This Week
Darby Shaw: 0-1
Rick Bernardo: 1-0
Steve Elle: 0-1
Rob Wheatley: 1-0
Total
Steve Elle: 154-113
Rob Wheatley: 149-118
Darby Shaw: 144-123
Rick Bernardo: 144-123