Chapter 667: Skill Contest

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When people mention the All-Star Game, the first thing that comes to mind is the NBA.
It also creates the illusion that the NBA All-Star has achieved great success on the weekend. To some extent, this is a wrong concept; but from another perspective, this is also the correct view.
The reason why it is wrong is that because of the ratings, the NBA All-Star Weekend is not worth mentioning at all, and the real viewing hegemon on the North American continent is still the NFL.
In the annual NFL Professional Bowl, the average number of viewers stays in the range of 10 million to 15 million, and the ratings can reach the range of 6.5 to 8.0.
Such data is much lower than the NFL's own regular season, not to mention the playoffs, but compared to the NBA, it easily surpasses the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and Western Conference Finals. The star weekend, the gap is even greater.
In other words, in terms of viewing groups, even the least-professional professional bowl, the NFL has also exploded in the other three major leagues.
The reason why it is correct is that because of the topic, the NBA All-Star weekend has taken a long lead, and even set off a wave around the world.
The slam dunk contests and three-point contests show the fun and charm of basketball to the fullest, attracting countless lights. After the end of the All-Star Weekend every year, short video clips can detonate topics on social networks and spread widely.
Although the ratings are far behind the NFL and MLB, the topic effect can be called a leader, which in turn creates more opportunities for NBA advertising sponsorship and commercial promotion.
In comparison, in this respect, the NFL has never been able to keep up.
After Roger Goodell became the president of the alliance, he has been thinking about how to operate the professional bowl and develop the added value of the professional bowl. He hopes to build the professional bowl into a prosperous world for all people like the Super Bowl.
But rugby has always been a sport full of confrontation and strength. It is often difficult to make innovations in terms of skills. It also makes it difficult for skill games and professional bowls to renew their vitality.
In recent years, every year's professional bowl will make corresponding reforms and explorations, hoping to find more resonance between this All-Star Game and the audience, not only professional audiences watching enthusiastically, but also ordinary audiences, Amateur audiences can generate interest.
This year is no exception.
All along, the NFL's professional bowl can be divided into two parts, one is the All-Star lineup game, the other is the warm-up skill game, both projects are based on the United States and the League of Nations as the main theme.
In the skill game, the United and the League of Nations each sent ten players to compete in different skill projects, such as pass precision games, field relay games, wide receiver catch games, kicker precision games, etc. Wait, all are reserved items, but the rules and methods may change every year.
But overall, compared to the NBA's slam dunk contest and three-point contest, the NFL skill game still lacks confrontation and urgency; more importantly, every position of football is relatively professional, skill It is completely different from technology and so on. It is impossible for all players to participate in the competition of slam dunks and three-pointers like basketball, and detonate the focus through the concentration of sight.
In order to integrate all professional bowl players, the rugby skill game must sacrifice more individual star effects, emphasizing the collective role, such as wide receiver to catch the ball, then the pass must be coordinated by the quarterback, and so on, which also makes The skill game is hard to say, it is more like a training game. For amateur audiences, it is naturally not too attractive.
This year the league made a bold attempt.
In the skill game, a fancy challenge session was set up to highlight the player's personal ability. Similar to the three-point contest and slam dunk contest, special links that emphasize the unique style and role of each position of the court, such as the quarterback's Passing, such as the wide receiver and cornerback, such as the offensive line and the defensive line, such as the kicker's long-range shot.
Not only that, the skill game has further opened up the possibility of registration, adding drama and comedy.
First, all players can sign up for any individual game, wide receivers can participate in quarterback pass games, near-field forwards can participate in frontal collision games, and so on, focusing on participation and performance.
Second, all players can participate in the registration. Previously, only players who were shortlisted for the Pro Bowl were allowed to participate in the skill game, but this year the registration has been fully opened, just like the NBA, as long as you are interested in participating, you can register. Therefore, a series of players who did not qualify for the Professional Bowl, such as Watt and Cam, also appeared in Honolulu.
Third, individual matches are not included in the professional bowl matchup. In previous years, every item of the skill game can be scored. Players played on behalf of their respective federations, and finally calculated the score to see whether the United or the National League won; and this year, an attempt was made and the individual game awarded the player a personal "champion" Honor is like a slam dunk champion or a three-point champion.
It can be said that this is a bold and risky attempt.
In some cases, it is suitable for the NBA, but not necessarily for the NFL. Despite this, Goodell continued to make various permutations and combinations, trying to find out more possibilities of the professional bowl, and the final effect is how the mule is the horse. It will be revealed after waiting for the yo.
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On January 28, local time in Hawaii, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Honolulu's Aloha Stadium ushered in the first part of the professional bowl-the skill game.
Former professional rugby player Walt-Coleman III (Walt-Coleman-III) arrived at the stadium early today because he will be a live reporter for NBC TV and participate in the broadcast of the skill game. He must enter the stadium in advance Prepare for the live broadcast.
Leaving the locker room with footsteps, Coleman arranged his jerseys and hair to ensure that the event was greeted with the best attitude. Before the time to enter the court, a violent and boiling agitation came across the entire player. The channel was gurgling like a storm, and every pore on the skin could feel the enthusiasm deeply.
Coleman's movements paused for a moment.
In previous years, the professional bowl has always been tepid, especially the skill game held one day in advance.
In order to build the relevant equipment for the game, the skill game is chosen to be held in an open and open training venue. The spectator stands around are relatively simple, not like professional games, but more like high school games. It is already very rare to have 3,000 spectators present The figures are large, and the vast and expansive site is slightly deserted.
This year, in line with the reform, the skill game was directly arranged at the Aloha Stadium, the venue of the Professional Bowl. The Aloha Stadium, which can accommodate 48,000 spectators, not only did the atmosphere cool down, but was it more heated? This is not right!
Coleman quickly accelerated his pace, rushed out of the shadow of the player's passage, and rushed into the bright golden sunlight, and then a surging red came violently, as if the stars were exploding in the sky, dazzling and The brilliant colors rushed into the depths of the pupils, and the unreasonable shock instantly magnified to the extreme, as if even the blue sky was completely dyed into gorgeous red.
All seats are filled!
Not strictly seated, the large Aloha Stadium has a full attendance rate of more than 70%. The large blue seats can still feel obvious vacancies, but the magnificent red is on the court In the middle of the shop, in the sharp contrast of red and blue, the hot and boiling colors are more and more filled, filling the whole world, and creating a grand and noisy comparable to the full seat.
Such a majestic posture, not to mention the skill game, even the professional bowl is not necessarily able to achieve such a battle.
Coleman was truly stunned. Thirty years into the league, such a professional bowl was definitely the first of its kind, so that a ridiculous idea came to my mind: Am I going to the wrong stadium?
Obviously not.
Gradually, the fevered brain cooled down, and then Coleman noticed that the stadium was not only red, but also colorful colors such as white, black, green, blue, etc., from 32 NFL professions The color of the team, every spectator can't wait to put on his home team's jersey, and expressed his support with practical actions.
But the problem is that the red color is too eye-catching and too strong. More than half of the audience have chosen the red jersey. The bright and gorgeous red is like a blooming sunrise, and it is spread out all over the sky. The unreasonable domineering and strong posture have transformed the entire Aloha Stadium into a unique red color.
Looking closer, the red is not the red of the Arizona Cardinals, the red of the Kansas Chiefs, nor the red of the Atlanta Falcons or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but the golden red of the San Francisco 49ers!
The unique colors exclusive to San Francisco, exclusive to 49 people, exclusive to the Bay Area, wanton and boisterously tumbling up, like a flag flying in the wind, uprightly evolved the professional bowl into their own home, in the attitude of the master Open your arms and welcome the arrival of other teams and players.
After realizing this, Coleman's slightly opened jaw couldn't be closed at all. He stayed dumbfounded, just standing dumbfounded, quietly feeling the baptism and precipitation of this wave.
Someone once said that the San Francisco 49ers' 14th quarterback, ascended the stage of the professional arena with a historic attitude, he is bound to create a world of his own. In this regard, people have expressed hesitation and confusion, can the Asian group really accept the game of rugby?
Today, at this moment, here and now, Aloha Stadium gave a positive answer.
Although Coleman did not further verify, there was a voice deep in his mind constantly echoing: Lu Ke.
The audience attendance rate of the history-creating skill game, the prestige of creating the professional bowl of history at home, the history of the league broadcast moment ... All these grand occasions and glory have the same answer, the same positive solution, and the same breakthrough.
Perhaps all of this is unthinkable, but it is really happening.
"Marshall! Marshall!"
"Fitzgerald! Ahhhh!"
"Rogers! Rogers! Rogers!"
"Big Ben! Hey, Big Ben!"
"Marsh Lynch!"
"Von Miller! Ray Lewis! Clay-Matthews!"
"Ear Thomas! Thomas!"
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In the large and spacious court, screams and shouts drifted around in the strong wind, one after another, endless ears, everywhere, vigorously excited wave after wave of sound, yelling for the name of his idol, Dotted with brilliant golden sunlight, it outlined a beautiful landscape and opened the curtain of the professional bowl.
But gradually, the shouting began to condense into a rope, and the same shouting in unison gradually gained the upper hand. Involuntarily, other fans stopped cheering and shouting one after another, looking left and right looking for the source of the sound. It was found that everywhere, as long as there was a golden red jersey, the shout was roaring.
It was like ... as if Aloha Stadium was responding to Coleman's question.