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We Watched The NFL Pro Bowl So You Didn't Have To, But We're Not Doing It Again [Pro Bowl]
Posted February 11th ago via Deadspin
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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 final dispatch.

Having witnessed the depressing display of humanity that was Kick-off and Fan Fest, Friday I addressed my melancholia in a manner befitting what I learned in college.

I went on a bender (albeit a tropical bender).

Beverages consumed Friday night:

  • tropical itch, 1 glass
  • Blue Hawaii, 1 glass
  • Hawiian iced tea,1 glass
  • Italian wine, 1/2 bottle
  • grappa, 1 shot
  • prosecco, 1/2 bottle
  • beer (variety unknown), 2 pints

I think the only type of alcohol I missed was vermouth.

Pro Bowl Ohana Day Celebration

This event, a practice open to the public, began at 9 a.m. Saturday morning.

I didn't make it.

At first I felt bad for missing the practice, but then realized that I felt bad because of the hangover. A dereliction of duty perhaps, but I missed the hotel's complimentary breakfast too. (Want to guess which one bothered me more?)

Plus as the players treat the Pro Bowl like a practice, I didn't want to see how they regarded a practice for a practice.

Pro Bowl All-Star Block Party

If "The Pro Bowl Football Festival was like a carnival only with no rides, fewer games, and the carneys aren't workers, but rather are the attendees," then the All-Star Block Party was like the Festival but without any games or players signing autographs (this paragraph courtesy of the Sports Guy school of quoiting yourself).

The block party was held on a one-mile cordoned-off stretch of Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki. There were six stages, featuring mostly local bands (the music scene here is great) as well as ...

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