Pro Bowl - Are you watching ?

[TurdFerguson]

I'm just wondering how many people are actually going to watch this thing ? There's all kinds of talk of just getting rid of it or moving it to the week before the super bowl. The NFL Pro Bowl is the worst all star game in sports, mainly because it's after the Super Bowl and nobody cares. Some of the players haven't been on the field in 6 weeks and they just go out the and go through the motions. I did see a story on ESPN News earlier that the 3 Washington Redskins players that will be in Hawaii will all be wearing #21 in honor of their teammate Sean Taylor. These 3 guys may be the only 3 guys going all out as they want to play the way Sean would have played.

[Enigma]

Also heard rumors that the first play the NFC is on defense that they will play with only 10 men to honor Taylor...

[TurdFerguson]

I didn't hear that but I did see the team photo for the NFC and the empty spot for Taylor.

[mikesilvia]

I went to the Pro Bowl here in Hawaii last year and left at half time. It is a terrible game with no competition. It is great to see so many talented players, but they use a play book that is basic and contains very few plays in it. If you want to see the best of the best run around for a few hours then watch the game.

[jedijohnson]

I'm going to the game w/my two sons. This will be our last as I transfer to Japan in August.

[OzCollecta]

Maybe they should play it mid way through the year. Make it all teams bye week and play it then.

[TurdFerguson]

Maybe they should play it mid way through the year. Make it all teams bye week and play it then.

Since the NFL season is only 16 games, I don't think that would work.


I actually thought about what if they did it after the regular season was done and then start the playoffs the next week. I could see people complaining about the hot teams at the time getting the shaft by having to wait an extra week to play though. Doing it this way would give the guys that aren't 100% an extra week to get healthy for the playoff push however.

[jedijohnson]

To me doing it at the end of the season makes the most sense from an injury aspect.
If a player is injured, they have the off-season to recover. I've never understood why the NBA/NHL would play a meaningless game mid-season and risk injury to their best players.
Plain and simple (to me)...players make soooo much money today that there is no incentive to play an extra game. Whatever the league pays them is nothing less than change to most. Twenty to thirty years ago, things were different and most players weren't millionaires.
It comes down to money and weighing that against their time and risk.

[OzCollecta]

I meant the season is 17 weeks including the bye week for each team. Now instead of the byes be in different weeks for different teams have the whole league use it say at week 8.
Weeks 1-8 Reg Games
Week 9 Pro Bowl
Weeks 10-17 Reg Games

[TurdFerguson]

I meant since the season is only 16 games, you really don't know who all of the pro bowlers are yet after only 8 games. It's not like baseball, basketball & hockey.