Posted on: Saturday, February 12, 2005
Pro Bowl sold out, will be live here on TV
Advertiser Staff
The NFL announced yesterday that the Pro Bowl is once again a sellout and the 2:30 p.m. game at Aloha Stadium will be televised live by ESPN in Hawai'i.
All NFL games, including the Pro Bowl, must be sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff for the game to be televised within 75 miles of its stadium, but the league extended the deadline to yesterday afternoon.
Each of the first 25 Pro Bowls in Hawai'i was played in front of a sellout crowd, according to the NFL. Aloha Stadium seats 50,000.
You get to make the call.
From today and continuing through halftime of tomorrow's Pro Bowl game, fans can vote on NFL.com for one of four plays submitted by AFC and NFC coaches earlier this week.
One play for each conference will be run in the fourth quarter.
The plays were submitted by the staff of the Atlanta Falcons and Pittsburgh Steelers, who are the coaches for the game.
In the fourth quarter, the fans' choice will be relayed to the coaches. A coach from each conference will discuss his team's play with an ESPN sideline reporter moments before it is run on the Aloha Stadium field.
NFL.com "Pick-A-Play" was introduced at the 2004 Pro Bowl with more than 60,000 votes cast. An NFC play resulted in a 33-yard touchdown pass from Marc Bulger to Alge Crumpler. The AFC play went for 19 yards with Trent Green passing to Chad Johnson.
Complete descriptions of each play are available on NFL.com.
Sites at Ford Island, Leeward Community College, Radford High School, and Kamehameha Drive-In will be available as alternate parking sites for tomorrow's Pro Bowl.
Aloha Stadium's parking gates will open at 10 a.m., and turnstile gates open at 11:30 for the 2:30 p.m. kickoff.
No tailgating will be allowed at the alternate parking sites.
Each site has a different policy on parking, shuttle service and opening time.
• Ford Island opens at 10 a.m., and parking and shuttle service are free. • Leeward CC opens at 11, and parking is free. But a $2 per-person shuttle fee will be charged. • Radford opens at 11, with a $3 parking fee per vehicle. There is no shuttle service. • Kam Drive-In opens at noon, with a $5 per vehicle charge that includes shuttle service. Shuttle service will be available until 3, and return shuttles will run for up to one hour after the game.
Book, equipment donation: The NFL and Mid-Pacific Institute teamed up yesterday on a Sports Equipment and Book Donation Project to benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Hawai'i. MPI students donated thousands of dollars of books and equipment to the project. Atlanta fullback Fred McCrary signed autographs and gave a talk.
Chargers' Fonoti will sign autographs: San Diego offensive lineman Toniu Fonoti will hold an autograph session today at the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center from 2 to 3 p.m. Fonoti, a Kahuku High and Nebraska alum, was taken as the 39th overall pick in the 2002 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-4, 350-pounder is a starting left guard.
Fans can pick play on-line at NFL.com
Alternate parking sites available
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