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NFL Radically Changes Pro Bowl Format

The game on the field will be kind of strange as well. Kickoffs are a thing of the past. The ball will be placed on the 25-yard line at the start of each quarter and after a team scores.
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Isn't this one of those ideas that Roger Goddell has been tossing around to help player safety? Looks like they're wanting to test it in an actual game environment.
 
Can anyone here say it's time to STICK A FORK in the Pro Bowl now ?? It's been on life support ever since it was pulled from ESPN IMO.....

OTOH.....It would make PERFECT fodder for CBS Sports Network ;D Thoughts?

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
Pat Cook said:
Can anyone here say it's time to STICK A FORK in the Pro Bowl now ?? It's been on life support ever since it was pulled from ESPN IMO.....

OTOH.....It would make PERFECT fodder for CBS Sports Network ;D Thoughts?

Cheers & 73 ;D
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Looks like someone has hacked my brainwaves on the subject of "All-Star" games. And when the NFL dumps it, it won't take long for the NBA and NHL to be pressured into dropping theirs.

(Note: I deliberately left Baseball off.)
 
This isn't the solution. Holding it just before the Super Bowl when many of the top players won't participate is the major problem.

This is a desperation move. The NFL will never do away with the game, but they don't need to make it a farce either. Go back to having it a few weeks after the Super Bowl.
 
This feels like a complete ripoff of the NHL's all-star format, which isn't the best to work off from (players call dibs on other selected players), but at least that's held in the middle of the season and is a good promotional platform. All the Pro Bowl has been lately is a free trip to Hawaii.

Also, the idea of involving the those playing the NFL's fantasy football is annoying. Not all of us obsess over FF statistics and just want to watch the best players, not "Week 7's 'stud'" as a one-week statistical blip ::).
 
Pat Cook said:
Can anyone here say it's time to STICK A FORK in the Pro Bowl now ?? It's been on life support ever since it was pulled from ESPN IMO.....

OTOH.....It would make PERFECT fodder for CBS Sports Network ;D Thoughts?

Cheers & 73 ;D
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Parade of farces aside, it's been higher-rated than the MLB All-Star Game since it moved to the week before the Super Bowl and airing on the Super Bowl network (except CBS) regularly, which wasn't the case before.
 
If it becomes what amounts to a "futures" game (kind of like the East-West Shrine Game), what's the point of holding it at all? Why not either dump it in favor of a fan-vote "All-NFL" team (introduced during the Super Bowl) or an actual, real, no-holds-barred, football game?

Players get hurt in all-star games all the time. (See Pete Rose vs. Ray Fosse, or even Robinson Cano this year, for examples.) And yes, it affects the teams for which those players play. But as long as there are all-star exhibition games, these things will happen. Kneejerk reaction? Get rid of them altogether. But it ain't gonna happen as long as the fans have a say. The experiment of letting NFL fans vote for their favorites apparently didn't last long, and when you take that away from the fans the interest will die off.

Dump the Pro Bowl.
 
Rube Dali said:
Looks like someone has hacked my brainwaves on the subject of "All-Star" games. And when the NFL dumps it, it won't take long for the NBA and NHL to be pressured into dropping theirs.
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The NHL All-Star game is pretty worthless all the way around, as is the Pro Bowl. But the NBA's is a major part of their marketing plan. That league is about marketing its stars over everything else, including good basketball (Thank you and good riddance next March, David Stern! :mad: ), so an All-Star game is a natural for them even though it is as useless as all the others.
 
umfan said:
This is a desperation move. The NFL will never do away with the game, but they don't need to make it a farce either. Go back to having it a few weeks after the Super Bowl.
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Nobody cares about football after the Super Bowl. Having an "all star" game at that point is too anti-climactic. If they're going to have it at all, put it right in the middle of the season like the other sports. Better yet, just get rid of it entirely.
 
ansky212 said:
Nobody cares about football after the Super Bowl. Having an "all star" game at that point is too anti-climactic. If they're going to have it at all, put it right in the middle of the season like the other sports. Better yet, just get rid of it entirely.
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I suggest the latter. No team's head coach or GM is going to allow his players to risk injury and hurt potential playoff chances by playing in a mid-season, meaningless football game.
 
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