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Should Future Pro Bowl Games Be Televised?

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Mark Giardina

After watching a portion of the recent Pro Bowl, which in my opinion seemed more like a game of touch football, I wonder if anyone agrees with me that this 'game' (if you want to call it that) deserves to be televised.

There is more action in pro wrestling events.

Besides having the Pro Bowl airing before the Super Bowl is anti-climatic since the teams going to the Super Bowl obviously are not going to participate in this event.
 
I maybe watched 1 play, and I think that was channel surfing.

They could just put it on cable and leave it at that. Or, forget about having a Pro Bowl altogether.

But really....isn't the NBA All Star Game the same way, with 159-145 scores?

I still like the baseball All Star Game, but all these sort of games are treated the same way. Heaven forbid that there is a major injury during one of these scrums!

cd
 
If it generates ratings, then yes, it belongs there.
 
For some reason it does get ratings. I don't know why, cause I never heard anyone say they like it, but it gets about the same rating as ESPN's Monday night football, and is the highest rated all star game out of the big 4 sports. Baseball is #2.
 
I agree the game has become a total joke. No one hits anyone anymore. Scoring is off the charts.
It won the night on Sunday night.. People are watching.. so why not?

Maybe they should make the game mean something. Couldn't be home field in the Super Bowl like the baseball all-star game. Maybe they could
say the team with the worst record from the losing Pro-Bowl conference gets the top pick in the draft. The benefit for the players playing is that they wouldn't have to face Andrew Luck (for example) as much as the players on the losing side.

Just a thought.
 
Why mess with success? It gets ratings.

After a season of hyper-pressurized competition, I actually thought it was fun to watch. It was like an episode of "Battle Of The Network Stars" except, y'know, that they knew how to play football. There were a couple of scrimmage stunts (one player rolled beneath another that hopped over him at one point) that they'd never try in a regular game. It was the football equivalent of watching the Harlem Globetrotters play the Harlem Globetrotters.

It also gave the network another few hours to promote the Super Bowl, which is an opportunity I don't think we'd ever see them decline.
 
I don't know either how people watch this thing, but hey yeah if the ad $$ rolls in, that's what matters at the networks.

So has there been any "ratings chart" over the years, showing how many folk have watched the Pro Bowl when it appears 1 week prior to the "Big Game" vs. appearing 1 week after (as it was in the past)? I'd figure 1-week-before to clearly win out, as I'd think after the Big Game, everything else wouldn't mean a lot.

cd
 
Part of the problem with the Pro Bowl is that it is so anti-climactic. We just watched an entire regular season, plus playoffs, and are awaiting the super bowl. Why watch a bunch of guys screw around on the field now? It would seem to make more sense to have the game in late summer right before the season starts to get viewers pumped up for the regular season. But either way, the players are never going to put their heart into the game because of the high risk of injury and little, i mean no, reward.
 
ansky212 said:
Part of the problem with the Pro Bowl is that it is so anti-climactic. We just watched an entire regular season, plus playoffs, and are awaiting the super bowl. Why watch a bunch of guys screw around on the field now? It would seem to make more sense to have the game in late summer right before the season starts to get viewers pumped up for the regular season. But either way, the players are never going to put their heart into the game because of the high risk of injury and little, i mean no, reward.
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The Hall of Fame Game in Canton OH should be the "Pro Bowl." Give Honolulu a couple of regular-season games a year (hopefully, replacing London) instead of this debacle.
 
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