Article: Green Bay: Easy sell? Some free agents express an interest; Pro Bowl Free Agents The following is a list of Pro Bowl players who will become free agents on Feb. 16. Players with an "r" next to their name are restricted free agents. Their teams may match any offer and retain rights to the players. Also included in the list is the player's position, team and age. AFC QB Jim Harbaugh, Indianapolis, 32 FB Kimble Anders, Kansas City, 29 OT Will Wolford, Indianapolis, 31 OG Will Shields (r), Kansas City, 24 OG Keith Sims, Miami, 28 DE Leslie O'Neal, San Diego, 31 LB Bryan Cox, Miami, 27 LB Kevin Greene, Pittsburgh, 33 SS Blaine Bishop (r), Houston, 25 CB Dale Carter, Kansas City, 26 NFC NFC C Kevin Glover, Detroit, 32 OT Lomas Brown, Detroit, 32 TE Mark Chmura, Green Bay, 26 DT Eric Swann, Arizona, 25 DE Chris Doleman, Atlanta, 34 SS Darren Woodson, Dallas, 26 CB Eric Davis, San Francisco, 28 CB Aeneas Williams, Arizona, 27 CB Elbert Shelley, Atlanta, 31 -30- -30-

Flash back to three years ago, when free agency was in its infancy in the National Football League.

Brett Favre and Sterling Sharpe spent their week at the Pro Bowl trying to sell Reggie White on the idea of playing in Green Bay. As far as some people were concerned, they might as well have been trying to sell White an orange grove in Ashwaubenon.

Now fast forward to Pro Bowl week 1996. White is a Packer and he's the one doing the selling. Only he doesn't have to make much of a pitch.

It seems that word has spread that Green Bay isn't such a bad place to play, bad weather and all.

More than a handful of free agents scheduled to play in the Pro Bowl today said they would give the Packers ...

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