The Texans Schaub takes MVP honor in Pro Bowl
By Jerry Michalsky, Sports Editor
It looked as if they had moved the Houston Texans practice to South Florida as Texans quarterback Matt Schaub connected with Andre Johnson from 33-yards just three minutes into the game for the first score of the game as the AFC went on to a 41-34 win over the NFC in the Pro Bowl game on Sunday night.
Schaub was named the games MVP for his performance. He finished the game with 189-yards passing and two scores.
Later in the quarter Schaub found Denver’s Brandon Marshall for a 23-yard score to make it 14-3.
The NFC would come back and get consecutive touchdown passes from Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers to take a 17-14 lead.
With the game tied at 17 apiece, the NFC regained the lead on a Donovan McNabb to DeSean Jackson 58-yard touchdown pass less than a minute into the second half.
Back would come the AFC side with 17 straight points to take a 34-24 lead.
Early in the fourth quarter after the NFC scored to cut the lead to three, the Eagles David Akers kicked a 39-yard field goal to tie the game at 34 apiece.
The AFC would then win it by driving 76-yards on 11-plays with Tennessee’s Chris Johnson scoring from two-yards out with 5:59 left in the contest.
The game has been played in Hawaii since 1980 and was moved to a different location for a one-year experiment. It was also the first time in the history of Pro Bowl that it has been played before the Super Bowl. The crowd of 70,697 was the largest for a Pro Bowl since 1959 in Los Angeles.
The stadium was half empty by the third quarter, perhaps partly because of the rain and temperatures in the 60s. It was sunny and 82 in Honolulu at game time.
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