Harris to Miss Pro Bowl

The Bears’ Tommie Harris will sit out the Pro Bowl with a knee injury, according to reports out of the Tribune today.  Harris wasn’t sure if he’d be able to travel to Honolulu this year, and now it appears that he has made his decision to err on the side of caution.  In his place, Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Darnell Dockett will appear in his first Pro Bowl.  Congratulations to Mr. Dockett, who joins Larry Fitzgerald as a representative of the Cardinals in Hawaii.  No word in this report on the extent of Harris’ injury, but I imagine if it was terrible they would have said so.

This just goes to show how silly it is for the NFL to even have a Pro Bowl game.  I know it’s a great time for everyone, and it’s a trip to Hawaii and all, but a lot of the best players are just too banged up at the end of the year for this game to truly be have an All Star atmosphere.  I certainly don’t have the answer for how the NFL could get more people interested in their version of the All Star game, but they are definitely lagging behind baseball and basketball in terms of keeping interest up.  But more and more great players decline to make the trip every year, thus diminishing the prestige of the game.

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Posted in General on January 25, 2008

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