NFL Pro Bowl 2012 Twitter: Breaking Down the League's Social Media Experiment

Roger Goodell hates NFL players.

The commissioner has provided football fans with the greatest gift that he could ever give them: a way to tell a player that they suck instantly after they screw up.  Goodell’s loosening of the players’ reins will without a doubt make for the most interesting Pro Bowl ever.

According to ESPN, the league will allow players to tweet during the All-Star game this year.  There isn’t a word in the English dictionary to flawlessly describe Chad Ochocinco’s disgust with not being voted into the contest.  I wouldn’t even be surprised if he’d rather be in Honolulu than Indianapolis right now.

Fans now have the ability to play the role of a head coach; everyone has sideline passes.  They can tweet Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees to tell them that they aren’t throwing to Larry Fitzgerald enough.  They can bombard Darrelle Revis with insults every time a wideout catches a pass on him.

Twitter may explode; it isn’t out of the question.

Moving the Pro Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl was a horrible move by the NFL.  As dull as the game already was, taking the players from two of the league’s best teams out of the contest was an insane idea.  Allowing the competitors to tweet, though, will save the Pro Bowl from becoming unwatchable.

This experiment will catch on.  Ratings will sky-rocket to the point that even David Stern will be tempted to allow players to tweet during NBA All-Star weekend.

Remotes will be replaced with laptops this Sunday.  Instead of flipping through the channels to see if anything else is more entertaining to watch on television, tweeting will takeover.  And by the way, every player in the Pro Bowl is a must-follow for tonight’s game.

Now, I’ll see you all on the sideline at 7 p.m. EST; don’t forget to bring plenty of tomatoes to throw.

David Daniels is a featured columnist at Bleacher Report and a syndicated writer.

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