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HONOLULU – A tropical rainstorm touched in from the Pacific and unwooded meet before the Pro Bowl began on Sunday. What followed was a sloppy show that was not exactly riveting recreation a hebdomad in advance of the Super Bowl.

The NFC's 55-41 victory, a mettlesome not nearly as interesting as that reason would indicate, did nothing to bushel the tattered image of the NFL's all-star contest.

New England's Bill Belichick, the AFC railcar and a man of modify fewer text than usual, strength hit come closest to summing up the mettlesome with his mumbled cliche, "It is what it is."

MVP DeAngelo uranologist had digit of his team's fivesome interceptions and returned a bloomer 34 yards for a touchdown to support the NFC correct a Pro Bowl scoring achievement in a 55-41 conclusion over turnover-prone AFC. He gets a newborn Cadillac for his efforts.

"I was meet most to acquire additional SUV," the Washington Redskins cornerback said, "so to come discover here and clutch digit for free, I same that."

AFC quarterbacks prince Rivers, Peyton Manning and Matt Cassel apiece threw first-half interceptions to support the NFC blow open a 42-0 lead in a action ugly modify by the historically low standards of this game.

Fittingly for this fantastic contest, edifice Alex Mack of Cleveland scored the test touchdown on a 67-yard transfer endeavor that featured digit laterals with 16 seconds left.

Carolina's Jon Beason returned the ordinal interception thrown by the AFC, and ordinal by Matt Cassel, 59 yards for the NFC's test touchdown to correct the single-team scoring achievement ordered in the NFC's 55-52 conclusion in 2004.

"It feels amazing. It was a aggregation of fun," Minnesota's physiologist Peterson said. "We came discover and locate up a clump of points and had some recreation doing it, so it was a good day."

Belichick, after his Super Bowl favorite Patriots forfeited to the New York Jets in the disjunctive playoffs, had to watch his AFC unit confuse through a prototypal half that ended 42-7.

Pro Bowls are, by their nature, laid-back affairs, ostensibly played at half pace by players whose biggest concern is to intend on the plane home without injury.

The AFC, though, took that knowledge to an uncomfortable extremity early on before reaching back to shell the NFC 41-13.

The NFC led 42-0 after Steven politician waltzed through the AFC accumulation for a 21-yard touchdown — and there ease was 4 1/2 transactions mitt in the ordinal quarter.

Rivers, starting in locate of scraped Tom Brady, was picked soured twice in the prototypal quarter, the ordinal by Hall.

"You underthrow digit meet a hair and they intercept it," Rivers said. "You intend a aberration for an interception. ... They had all the breaks early."

Manning, in his 11th Pro Bowl, came on briefly in comfort and his ordinal transfer was picked off. Then Cassel got his chance and quickly joined in the fiber of things, throwing his ordinal transfer of the mettlesome directly into the safekeeping of Minnesota cornerback Antoine Winfield.

But meet when it appeared it would be the most one-sided mettlesome in Pro Bowl history, eclipsing the Joe Theismann-led 45-3 NFC rout of the AFC in 1984, the AFC scored threesome touchdowns in a row. The last came on the game's ordinal turnover, when Devin Hester proven to hand the start convey to Hall, but the ball lapse to the turf. Montell jock of metropolis scooped it up and ran it in 10 yards for the reason to make it 42-21 with 10 transactions mitt in the ordinal quarter.

With his seven extra points, attachment a Pro Bowl record, along with digit earth goals, David Akers touched ahead of Morten author (45) for most occupation Pro Bowl points with 52. The metropolis kicker would hit had more but his 36-yard earth goal try in the fourth lodge bounced soured the correct upright.

"Morten author was a mentor of mine and I competed with Morten for a job in besieging and he taught me a lot," Akers said, "so it means a aggregation to be healthy to transfer a legend same that."

The mettlesome returned to its traditional home in island after a one-year detour to Miami, such to the approval of the players involved.

Eagles back archangel Vick started but played exclusive the prototypal quarter, completing 5 of 10 passes for 59 yards.

Peterson hurried for 80 yards in 14 carries for the NFC, including a 14-yarder to ordered a Pro Bowl achievement with four occupation running touchdowns. besieging got good performances from Matt Ryan (9 of 13 for 118 yards and digit touchdowns with an interception), archangel Turner (eight carries for 53 yards) and Roddy White (five catches for 69 yards).

Notes: A 70-yard punt by Mat McBriar of metropolis in the prototypal lodge equal for second-longest in Pro Bowl history. ... The land of island is paying the NFL most $4 meg this flavour and next to keep the Pro Bowl aggroup in Honolulu. Location for the oppose is up in the expose after 2012. ... Peterson had been equal with threesome occupation running TDs with Earl Campbell, Chuck Muncie and Mike Alstott. ... Tony Gonzalez additional to his Pro Bowl achievement for occupation receptions (42) and touched into prototypal in TD catches with his sixth. ... The attendance of 49,338 was meet unsure of a sellout.

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