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Originally Posted by listopencil
Check this out, "the Playoff Bowl", a kind of sort/of precursor to the Pro Bowl:
Really, though, the whole thing seems kind of ridiculous. It'd never fly now. In fact, it barely did then. After his Green Bay Packers beat the Cleveland Browns in the 1963 game, Vince Lombardi called it "the Shit Bowl. A loser's game for losers. Because that's all second place is."
Awesome, Vince, but technically it was for third place.
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It wouldn' tbe that surprising if they bring it back. They are always looking to add more games to the season, more teams to the playoffs, etc. They have talked about dumping the pro bowl for years, too. Actually, that's what most of the pro-bowl coverage is, a bunch of debate every year about whether they should keep it.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they bring back a runner-up game, either replacing or in addition to the pro bowl.