Peyton Manning
Indianapolis Colts president Bill Polian is unhappy with the league’s decision to move the Pro Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl.
Even though his players won’t have to play in the game because they have the big game the following weekend, Polian still feels that the event is a major distraction.
“It’s stupid,” Polian said Tuesday on 1070 The Fan in Indianapolis. “It’s a disruption, but we’ll deal with it.”
The most players elected to the squads from the Super Bowl teams will have to do is stand out on the field and wave. Nonetheless, he is steadfast in his opinion.
“If it weren’t for the Pro Bowl disruption, they would have the weekend off, but they can’t because we have to send those players to Miami to do Lord knows what,” he said. “We’ll come back and practice on Sunday and the Pro Bowl players will go and do whatever they have to do and then the team will leave on Monday.”
And that is the rub. Pro Bowl elected players will head to Miami early and miss a team practice.
“The fact of the matter is that we’re thinking that they’re down there Sunday night and they will meet us Monday, which is a hell of a thing, isn’t it? It sends a great message to all the young people out there and all the coaches that talk teamwork that you take your best seven players and split them up from your team at the ultimate moment in sports.”