Report: Pro Bowl to be held before the Super Bowl, beginning in 2010

Between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl, to be held at the Super Bowl site.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3798734

Probably would put a bit more interest into the game ... a bit.

 

I'm assuming they would be playing without any players from the Super Bowl participants, further weakening the talent level in the game that is already limited because so many players drop out.

 

Could be worse. They could try to draw a page from other professional sports leagues and give every team a Week 9 bye week and play the Pro Bowl then...

 

And without the all-expense-paid vacation in Hawaii, even more are going to skip it now.

 

I don't know why they even bother at this point. Why not just pick the teams, send everybody who makes it a little plaque and move on? The game usually sucks and players don't really want to take a chance on getting hurt.

I'm a football junkie and I don't even bother watching any more.

 

It might not be enough to save the pro-bowl, but it's a great idea, even without the SB players. Players will come because everyone wants an excuse to be a big shot during SB week.

 

I'd much prefer to have the college title game held at the same stadium as the Super Bowl, in the week prior. Who cares about the Pro Bowl?

 

This Goddell Idea will fail.

 

They changed the Chicago Charities College All-Star Game? What?

 

It actually makes a lot of sense. Gives people something to talk about in the weeks in between the championship games and the Super Bowl, gets a lot of players to the Super Bowl site and might give them a few more opportunities to be paid to attend corporate gigs, the Super Bowl participants largely begged off the Pro Bowl anyway.
Maybe they can make it so the winning Pro Bowl conference determines which is the "home" team in the Super Bowl.

 

The NFL's thinking on the Pro Bowl changed when Goddell took over. His point was, "If the Super Bowl is the culmination of our season, why are we playing another game a week later?"

 

Adding another month off between games would make for some quality football.