The Senior Bowl

The senior bowl is the game most college players want to play because it basically gives them the chance to be watched by NFL teams. It takes place in Mobile, Alabama and it began in 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida, but next year it officially moved to Ladd Pebbles Stadium.

The senior bowl is produced by Mobile Arts & Sports, a non-profit organization, and the money collected from the game serves for various local fund-raisers. An important amount of cash has been collected for such charities in the history of the senior bowl: a total of $5.9 million dollars.
The teams on the senior bowl are North and South, and both are coached by selected NFL staff.

Not only the game gives future NFL prospects the chance to be observed, as general managers and coaches from the NFL attend the full-week of practice before the game in order to be acquainted with the participants who might become pro-bowlers.

The senior bowl is also the first game where college players are paid for the first time in their careers, that is why in the past, only seniors who could not be eligible for further participation in college football were to play the game, but that has changed in recent years, and now more amateur players are also given the opportunity to play.

This is also the game where college players can get more familiarized with the NFL rules, which are a little bit different than those from college.
The game is usually played a week before the Super bowl, and this year’s took place on January 24 and it was win by the South 35-18, and Pat White, the quarterback for the South, was named the MVP of the game.

The senior bowl is either the chance of a player to make it to the NFL or is also the chance to ruin a possible NFL draft pick; it all depends on their performance on the field.