Andrew Luck almost skipped out on the Pro Bowl. After a brutal 45-7 loss to the Patriots just one game shy of the Super Bowl, the Colts quarterback came close to backing out.
Pro Bowl 2015: Andrew Luck finds all-star game therapeutic after playoff loss
The Colts quarterback nearly skipped the Pro Bowl after the loss to New England.
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“It was hard,” Luck told the Indianapolis Star when asked about the decision. “But once you get out here and you get around the guys and some of your teammates, it feels better. But the morning after the (loss), you get a phone call and they need your decision and they want to make sure you’re not hurt, can you play and all that. I’m sitting there like ... (sighs).”
“I mean, it is a privilege, but I am hurting in a sense. But I realize it’s an honor to be voted in and the fans really enjoy it. So, I did it.”
Instead of making his first trip to the Super Bowl, Luck finds himself playing in his third Pro Bowl. He threw for a career-high 4,761 yards and led the NFL with 40 touchdown passes this season, but the sting of the AFC Championship loss isn't going away anytime soon.
"It's going to take awhile for me to get over it," he said. "You take small steps, little doses of medicine in a sense. This (Pro Bowl) game, for instance, is a step. It's some of that medicine. You come out here and try to have fun with the guys. Everybody who's here lost at the end of the season. And misery loves company. I feel bad for the Packers guys who are here, for example. We were sitting there commiserating the other day.
“It’s a little dose of medicine. But it’s really going to take awhile. When you put a lot of freakin’ work into something and you don’t realize it, it’s just hard.”
Luck will make the start for Team Carter on Sunday. Coverage for the game begins at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.
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