FLASHY FREDDY'S FABULOUS FRIDAY FIVE - STUPID PRO BOWL

Freddy Choyle

There is nothing more meaningless in sports like the NFL Pro Bowl. Most veterans like Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, decline the invitation each year. No one cares, not the players, certainly not the fans. It's a filler. A fluff game, with it's only true purpose being to extend Super Bowl promotions one more week. Frankly it doesn't make much sense for the leagur to continue to play the game. The actual television broadcast is not highly rated at all. In fact all the major networks Super Bowl special shows will do better comparatively to the game itself.  This made me think of other glorified exhibition games, which ultimately sparked my muse for this week's list................Top Five Worst Games On TV 

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#5 Mixed Doubles Tennis - This shouldn't even be a sport, it's more of a country club summer afternoon special then an actual serious competition. Yet every summer the networks will want to get one more drop of ratings out of Wimbledon or the US Open and subject the nation to a glorified game of badminton. 

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#4 SyFy Network's Opposite Worlds - Talk about a load of crap. Try to shuffle this in your head, Opposite Worlds is a show were competitors live in either the future or the past and battle each other  but you get to vote the result  (heavy sigh) it just simply does not make sense. It seems the Execs are making the rules up as they go on this one and believe mt, it's not going to go well. 

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#3 High School Sports of Any Kind - Don't get me wrong, I'm all for supporting your true home team, I just think it should be done in person. Most broadcasts are of poor quality sound and sad camera angles, not offering the home audience much to stay tuned for. 

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#2 The WNBA - Sorry ladies, you are truly wonderful, yet your league is not very entertaining. In fact it ranks right up there next to the PBS special "Watching Paint Dry" in the excitement column. The league is based on passing. Passing! The players look intimidating, not attractive. Not even in the softest sense of the term. Not that it's part of the criteria of a good competition, but you'd think in an all female league, there would be at least a couple lookers. 

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#1 Texas Hold'em - Watching grown humans sit a table and pass cards around is a joy I just don't fathom. I can't think of a better way to completely bore yourself into a stupor. Yet apparently some one's watching this mess because it appears all over cable television on networks you would not expect. This is a phase I can't wait to pass. 

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