NFL Pro Bowl On The Chopping Block?

Thye gotta do something

the voting was a joke and from the sounds of it, the game itself was wretched.

Flush it.

I like the idea of building up the skills competition, definitely.

BUT, what about having the players play a different position from they normally play? Stafford can be kicker, and have Jared Allen at QB, and Aaron Rodgers at WR. Hell, the fans could even vote for the position the player will play!

The game is supposed to be fun and entertaining and maybe with changing positions, the players will want to “prove” themselves on national television. There has to be incentive for them to want to be competitive.

Of course this idea runs the risk of turning the entire thing into a circus, but I’d still love to see Wes Welker on the Dline hahaha

Let Hawaii host it, and go back to having it the week after the SB.

When it’s in Hawaii, the players actually want to go – who doesn’t want an all-expenses paid work trip for the whole family to Hawaii? Like the author said, NOLA is a fun city, but it’s by no means a destination, especially for a family, like Hawaii is.

Also, move it back to after the SB. Right now, we’re guaranteed to not see any players in either SB team (which, by its nature, means we won’t see many of the best NFL players), not to mention that a lot of participants in the conference championship games miss out, too. If they move it back to after SB, now we have one last time this season to see all the teams, and you can even reward the SB winner and fly that entire team out there!

And as much as I love football, there’s enough going on in the two weeks between CCGs & SB that I don’t need to have my “fix” fixed with the pro bowl wedged in between.

Skills challenge as others have mentioned, flag football. It would all be more interesting than what they currently do.

It’s a joke and it probably should be. If I am out there I don’t want to risk getting hurt either.

while there haven’t been a lot of those at the probowl or PB functions….
if it were my lively hood, even for $50gs or $25gs
it would feel like such a short term gain at such a great risk.

I’d rather get named, get the bonus for it,
and then stay out as I recover from the regular season’s toll on my body.

a skills competition, and more face time for the players- for fans to get to meet and learn more about their heroes could be fun.

If the players are going to act like it’s flag football, just go for it. Make it a flag football game. I’d watch that. You’d get to see what the players looked like without pads and helmets on. Cool.

Also, you could drop the NFC/AFC thing and take a page from the NHL. Do a fantasy draft with captains to pick the teams.

And bring back the skills competition.

Then they both have something to prove.

2 million bonus money to the winners and 100k to the losers per player. There are around 50 players for each team. That is 100 million spent, roughly. This is an exhibition

PUT ON A DAMN SHOW!

This is a 9 billion dollar yearly industry and they can’t afford one high profile game that is not a money maker? Or

Just have flag football with present day players against retired players. I would definitely tune in to watch Saint Barry abuse present day D players in some flag football.

It use to be an honor to go now its a popularity contest and know one wants to get dirty.