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re: How do we fix the Pro Bowl?

Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:11 pm to
Posted by Ralph_Wiggum
Sugarland
Member since Jul 2005
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Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:11 pm to
I am surprised that the players and the NFLPA still agree to play it. I don't see what the NFL gets out of it since no one likes watching the game. But I can't think of a truly Hall of Fame caliber player ever suffering a serious or career-ending injury in the game.

If you have to have it make it a pre-season game and let players use it to get ready for the season and have rules like no blitzing, no kick-offs, teams down by 15 points in the second half get the ball back.
Posted by corneredbeast
02134
Member since Sep 2008
2302 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:12 pm to
Get rid of it and replace it with the free agent bowl. Maybe they'd feel a little competitive spirit if a better contract was on the line.
Posted by danfraz
San Antonio TX
Member since Apr 2008
24550 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:15 pm to
They still do the pro bowl?


Wow
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
91334 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:17 pm to
quote:

The Browns would destroy Bama. There is no college team that can hang with a NFL team.
Alabama would have a good chance to win
Posted by keakar
Member since Jan 2017
30152 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:25 pm to
quote:

If you have to have it make it a pre-season game and let players use it to get ready for the season and have rules like no blitzing, no kick-offs, teams down by 15 points in the second half get the ball back.


or something like college OT rules, a scrimmage more or less.

each side gets 5 or 10 alternating possessions from the 25 to score and no field goals
Posted by Suntiger
STG or BR or somewhere else
Member since Feb 2007
36202 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:39 pm to
Saying we need to fix it means something is broken. So what’s broken?

I don’t think anyone takes it seriously as a game and it should just be an event that stars can go to as an award for a good season. Maybe have it in different places. Maybe have it at the stadium the year before the super bowl. Maybe have it in non-nfl towns that can support it. Like Mobile, Al., London, Toronto, Austin, etc.

Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
172004 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 2:40 pm to
That's a garbage idea.
Posted by CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
Member since Dec 2014
18388 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:11 pm to
Just leave it the way it is. No one is forced to watch if they don’t want to.
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
34143 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:14 pm to
Only Pro Bowl that ever mattered to me was Tecmo Super Bowl Pro Bowl
Posted by CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
Member since Dec 2014
18388 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:22 pm to
Wasn’t there a female streaker on the field at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii a few years ago. That was the highlight of the game.
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:48 pm to
quote:

How do we fix the Pro Bowl?



If you want a game fixed, get Robert Kraft involved. Amirite?
Posted by Hamma1122
Member since Sep 2016
22290 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 6:04 pm to
Do away with it
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
41184 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 6:22 pm to
quote:

female streaker on the field at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii a few years ago


Yea I remember that. Had a pretty cool story behind it. Did it for her disabled cousin who was a huge football fan. Deion Sanders saved her from jail time by talking to the security guards.

Posted by Dawgsontop34
Member since Jun 2014
45963 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 7:35 pm to
So somehow Jason Witten made the pro bowl over Evan Engram despite having fewer catches, yards, and TDs this year.

Maybe make the selections less of a joke (and I say this as a Cowboys fan).
Posted by CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
Member since Dec 2014
18388 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:26 pm to
I usually dislike Sanders, but that was a nice of him.
Posted by brett randall
Depends on the moment.
Member since Feb 2007
1766 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:32 pm to
quote:

The Browns would destroy Bama. There is no college team that can hang with a NFL team.
Alabama would have a good chance to win





how many players does bama have that will be pros?

Cleveland has 53.
can you do the math now?
Posted by SuperSoakher
Member since Jun 2012
4585 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:45 pm to
Or you could, you know, just not watch it and not bitch about everything
Posted by Mr. Elvert
Dallas
Member since Oct 2012
15328 posts
Posted on 1/22/18 at 11:48 pm to
Last time a sport started thinking this the MLB gave home field to the winner. frick that logic, eliminate it first
Posted by SamuelClemens
Earth
Member since Feb 2015
11727 posts
Posted on 1/23/18 at 6:01 am to
Stop starting threads
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
88509 posts
Posted on 1/23/18 at 6:59 am to
Do a team of QBs vs a team of Kickers, but the kickers team has a QB at QB and the QB team has a kicker at QB
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