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The score was something lopsided, and the team in red won.
I always enjoy when the starting lineups are announced, with each player saying his name and where he went to school. Usually it's colleges, but sometimes they will name their high school, or even grade school.
In the course of this, I noticed one of players was named Richie Incognito. I googled him, and he's Richie Incognito, Junior and he played high school ball in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. It reminded me of the movie Goodfellas where Ray Liotta's character was negotiating his entry into the Witness Protection Program, and insisted that the family must be relocated to a warm climate.
I can picture a frazzled government employee trying to juggle all the relocation requirements, and running out of ideas for new last names coming up with Incognito. And the well is dry when it comes to picking names for the Incognito kids, so he just designates the son as a Junior.
Next thing I noticed was that one of the blue team players was over on the red team's side, snapping the ball. Replay the footage!
Jeff Saturday, the center for the Green Bay Packers played with the Indianapolis Colts for 13 years, before moving to the Packers, most of that hiking the ball to Peyton Manning. He's retiring this year, so the idea was to let him hike one last ball to his long-time teammate. Isn't that nice? I wondered if the stadium announcer explained all that to the fans, but they probably didn't care.
The only penalty of the game that I noticed was a pass interference or something. The referee prefaced his explanation with: "Yes there are penalties in the Pro Bowl."
As Mr. Troutbend pointed out, the Pro Bowl isn't really a football game, and it doesn't matter, but it's fun to watch the players having a good time and being teammates with rival players.
Don't forget this coming Sunday is the Super Bowl! I've always thought Super Bowl Monday should be a national holiday.
