Bowls question

Brian017

What's the difference between the Superbowl and Probowl etc..?

FatherTed

Brian017 wrote:

What's the difference between the Superbowl and Probowl etc..?

The Probowl is the All-Stars game after the season is over. The best players of the AFC play the best players of the NFC. Pretty much a non event over here as noone takes it seriously.

john_g83

I watched the damn thing till after 3am, bit of a waste of time to be honest, no one is tackeling because they don't want to get injured. Hines Ward's TD return from diabolical onside kick was kind of cool tho.

Kencu

Wasn’t actually that bad of an onside kick. You would NEVER have someone with the athleticism of Ward in that position on an average kick off. Akers couldn’t have placed it better really.

The probowl was kinda fun even if it was meaningless. Not nearly as good as last years though.

RuggieBear

couple years back wasn't there a young player (a possible rising star?) who was playing at a pre probowl sand touch game and twisted his knee in the sand and it more or less ended his career? Anyone remember that and his name....?

por

RuggieBear wrote:

couple years back wasn't there a young player (a possible rising star?) who was playing at a pre probowl sand touch game and twisted his knee in the sand and it more or less ended his career? Anyone remember that and his name....?

Yea Robert Edwards was his name, he was a Patriots 1st round draft pick in 1998. He basically had an akward fall and it ended his career, here is a good article about him

por

Brian017 wrote:

What's the difference between the Superbowl and Probowl etc..?

Bowl games (name after the shape of the stadium) originated in college football where on New Years day champions of the various confrences around the country play each other in high profile Bowl games, Rose bowl in LA, Cotton Bowl in Texas, Orange Bowl in Flordia etc.

When the AFL and NFL merged in the late '60s the final between the two laegues was called the Superbowl.

It got it's name from when the then comminisioner (can't remember his name) saw his daughter playing with a very bounch small rubber ball (you know the ones), it was called a superball, so he tought it would be a good name for the new championship game.
He said in public many times until his death a few years ago that he regreted the name.

Brian017

So the Superbowl is between the AFL and NFL champs?

por

Brian017 wrote:

So the Superbowl is between the AFL and NFL champs?

Well yea, but they are now called the AFC and AFC (Confrence rather than league). Back in the 20s the National Football League (NFL) was formed, then in 1960 a rival American Football League (AFL) was formed, by the mid sixties the two leagues decided to merge under the name NFL and the first Superbowl was played in 1967. By 1970 or so when the merger was complete they changed their names to AFC and NFC.

Currently a team in the AFC for example will paly 16 games, 12 of which are against AFC teams. In the playoffs teams only play in their conference until the two confrence champs meet in the Superbowl.

Chucky the tree

How was it decided if a team should be in the NFC or AFC?

OFDM

Chucky the tree wrote:

How was it decided if a team should be in the NFC or AFC?

Read this

Pherekydes

It's all on the NFL's history page, but here's an excerpt:

Baltimore, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh agreed to join the AFL teams to form the 13-team American Football Conference of the NFL in 1970, May 17. The NFL also agreed on a playoff format that would include one "wild-card" team per conference-the second-place team with the best record.

As I mentioned on another thread, the league is owned by the clubs, i.e. the owners, so they come up with whatever plans seem good at the time, by agreement. There's no dictating.

DubTony

por wrote:

It got it's name from when the then comminisioner (can't remember his name) saw his daughter playing with a very bounch small rubber ball (you know the ones), it was called a superball, so he tought it would be a good name for the new championship game.

His name was Pete Rozelle

from wikipedia

Alvin "Pete" Rozelle (March 1, 1926–December 6, 1996) was the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) from January 1960 to November 1989, when he retired from office. Rozelle is credited with making the NFL what was arguably the most successful sports league in the world.

tuxy

what about the original bowl?



much better athlete's in that sport

Pherekydes

tuxy wrote:

much better athlete's in that sport

Athlete's what?