Covering the Pro Bowl, and the NFL’s worthless fan events, for Deadspin
For six weeks this winter I was in Hawaii (my wife was assigned there for work and freelancing usually allows me the flexibility to work from anywhere).
We were in Honolulu during the NFL’s Pro Bowl, so I pitched Will Leitch at Deadspin, the second most visited sports blog on the Internet, to see if he was interested in on-location coverage of one of sport’s most worthless events.
He liked the idea and asked me to write two pieces: one that ran before the Pro Bowl and covered the first few days of game-related hullabaloo and another that was posted the day after the game and reported on the weekends’ doings (which, yes, included something resembling a football game).
Here are the posts:
- “Fun” In The “Sun” At The NFL Pro Bowl
- We Watched The NFL Pro Bowl So You Didn’t Have To, But We’re Not Doing It Again
Make sure you read the comments too; as is customary on Deadspin, they’re hilarious. And from a writers’ standpoint, it’s an ego boost to have so much response to a blog post (even if most entries on Deadspin receive a lot of feedback).
Tags: Deadspin, Football, Hawaii, My work, Pro Bowl, Sports, Will Leitch
I’m a freelance writer, editor, and consultant. My writing focuses on travel and culture and has appeared in BlackBook, Budget Travel, Gridskipper, Deadspin, and Louisville.com.
