It's not just Pats skipping out on the Pro Bowl

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Why should professional players participate in what's become the Deion and Michael Show?

 

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Of course, fans are at a fever pitch here in NC as the Carolina Cougars from Winston Salem continue their undefeated season.

A bunch of cats dressed in Blue!

 

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Published on Jul 11, 2012
Freak injury during 1999 Rookie Beach Bowl. First round draft pick for the New England Patriots Robert Edwards destroys his knee and I got it on film. He goes up for a pass against Rookies Charles Woodson and R.W. McQuarters and comes down with a horribly hyper extended knee. Not only did it end his incredibly promissing career, doctors nearly had to amputate his lower leg.

(Not really the Pro Bowl but close enough)

 

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As for skipping Sunday's Pro Bowl along with six of his teammates, Gronkowski didn't hesitate.

"It's just the way it worked out. I didn't talk to anyone about it," he said of no Patriots attending. "I mean, that game might need to be changed. You can't go the whole season, AFC Championship Game, giving it all you've got and thinking you're going to hop on a flight to fly 12 hours to Hawaii that next Tuesday, when I still can't even walk because I took like 20 hits that game. I was not hopping on that plane and just be more tight, more sore when I got off, and just be miserable the whole ride. If it was changed ... I totally understand if you don't go to the playoffs, you got a few weeks off, the Pro Bowl is awesome. But it's hard to go from that game, giving it all you got in the playoffs, to go right to the Pro Bowl. You got to have your body rest, man."
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Rob Gronkowski arrives at Super Bowl, explains why he passed on Pro Bowl