2010 PRO BOWL
NFL PRO BOWL 2010: AFC All Stars Vs NFC All Stars
Live Streaming PRO BOWL Game at 7:20 PM (ET)/4:20 PM (PST)
Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010.
Location: Sun Life Dolphin Stadium, Miami, Florida.
TV: ESPN
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What happening?
The premise of the 2010 Pro Bowl, to be played on Sunday night at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, is no different than the 2009 version of the exhibition or any of the other 38 installments of the AFC-NFC all-star game. At the same time, the 40th version of the Pro Bowl is something of an experiment on this occasion.
The timing of the game, a week prior to the Super Bowl as opposed to the week after, is the first major alteration. The thought on the part of the league was that the Pro Bowl could be a sort of kickoff for Super Bowl week, as opposed to the veritable afterthought it has been in the past.
The downside, of course, is that no members of the Colts or Saints, who will meet in Super Bowl XLIV at the same site in a week's time, will be available to play. That fact will sap the contest of a total of 14 players from those teams, while the new window undoubtedly impacted the sending of regrets by 21 other players who were named to the Pro Bowl but begged off due to injuries.
Also of note for the 2010 Pro Bowl is the site, which for the first time in 31 years will be somewhere other than Honolulu, HI. Not since the 1978 season has the game been played somewhere other than the 50th state, though the game is slated to return to Hawaii for the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
San Diego head coach Norv Turner and Dallas head man Wade Phillips will guide the AFC and NFC squads, respectively, after watching their teams fall in the divisional round of the postseason. This is also a break from tradition, as coaches from the Championship round runners-up had previously guided the two sides.
SPECIAL TEAMS
Back for another year to handle punting chores for the AFC is the Raiders' Shane Lechler (51.1 avg.), who will make his fifth Pro Bowl appearance after leading the league in punting average for the fifth time in his career. The kicker, Pro Bowl newcomer and local favorite Dan Carpenter (25-28 FG), makes his initial appearance in the contest. Browns special teams ace Joshua Cribbs (27.5 kickoff return avg., 3 TD, 11.9 punt return avg., 1 TD) will handle returns for the AFC.
On the NFC side, punter Andy Lee (47.6 avg.) of the 49ers and David Akers (32-37 FG) of the Eagles will make up the kicking battery, with Philadelphia's DeSean Jackson (15.2 punt return avg. 2 TD) and Chicago's Johnny Knox (29.0 kickoff return avg., 1 TD) both available to handle returns. The veteran Akers, who was recently named to the league's All-Decade Team, is a Pro Bowler for the fourth time, and first since 2004.
OVERALL ANALYSIS
Like in any exhibition game, picking a score here is a difficult task, though it would sure seem that the AFC was robbed of more top-notch players by the altered timing of the game than was the NFC. David Garrard and Kyle Vanden Bosch are Pro Bowlers? Well, their uniforms will say they are, but we'll guess that they won't be on the winning side of this talent-depleted Pro Bowl.
NFL ON PC's Predicted Outcome: NFC 31, AFC 27.
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