The NFL Pro Bowl is a joke

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY SportsThe NFL Pro Bowl is this weekend - a little stopgap in the postseason while we wait for the Super Bowl to arrive, which can’t come soon enough as I just want it over. Give Kansas City the trophy and be done with it. I’m already so over Chiefs fans.

But the sad reality of the Pro Bowl is that I could not care less about it - and I used to enjoy it. The event has become a carnival where an obstacle course relay race and dodgeball have become as competitive (or even moreso) than the actual football game.

Players selected are just as into the celebrity event as the fans. There is no real AFC-NFC rivalry. No one is trying to play real football because no one wants to get…