Comments on: Mayock thinks NFL needs to make a decision on the Pro Bowl

By: mackie66

mackie66 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:13:01 +0000

Get rid of the pro bowl. Or turn it into a flag football game, at least, they wouldnt have to pretend. The NFL season games will soon look like the pro bowl with all the law suits coming down the road for head injurys, ie Dave Dureson.

By: laserw

laserw — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:07:44 +0000

How about making the “Pro Bowl” the half-time entertainment at the Super Bowl – play one quarter of football – each team gets minimum of two possessions, no restrictions on hitting, blitzes, etc. Each player must play in the game. 15 minute game. Each team gets paid the same – winner of the game has a $10k per player donation to the charity of their choice and winning team players (and one guest) get to go to hawaii for a week paid for by the NFL.

Half-time shows are rarely good and the pro-bowl players could be introduced at half-time before the pro bowl game starts and receive huge recognition for their efforts

By: marima07

marima07 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:28:47 +0000

Flag football and a skills competition.

There’s still pride and the spirit of competing with flag football, but the players won’t have to worry about injury.

No one in our football-crazy household watches the Pro Bowl, but we’d watch that.

By: winkeroni

winkeroni — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:57:01 +0000

It wouldn’t bother me if they played 2-hand touch or flag football. It would be nice to see guys out there having fun playing different positions. Have the guys play without coaches. Perhaps, just a suggestion, have more cheerleaders and dancers!

By: dobberdubinsky

dobberdubinsky — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:08:03 +0000

Everyone on here says get rid of it, but judging by the ratings it got this year, chances are most of you watched. All you phonies need to shut the hell up and quit complaining about nothing, if you don’t like it, change the channel.

By: vots50

vots50 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:43:10 +0000

The players love money. Many of them commented how the extra $50,000 for winning ($25,000 for losing) is nice — especially after an extravagant Hawaiian vacation.

So let’s do this…

Take away the $25k prize for the losers. Loser’s shouldn’t get rewarded anyways — especially on a professional level.

This leaves $75k for the winner’s share. But, the NFL’s rich. So we’re going to bump that prize to $100k. This makes it very easy to market to players.

Win the Pro Bowl and receive ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. Lose the Pro Bowl and receive NOTHING — the NFL will still pay for hotel, airfare, and food.

If that doesn’t get them to compete. Then scrap it. Keep the voting, but nix the game.

By: trubroncfan07

trubroncfan07 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:35:30 +0000

They need to up the money or make it a winner takes all kind of event or these guys are never going to play all out. I have been to a couple Pro Bowls and it is really about the week of events and partying that makes the Pro Bowl week cool. Just another thing that Goodell is doing to make me not like football as much.

By: ahs2

ahs2 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:13:03 +0000

cmstrick says:
Feb 22, 2012 10:24 PM
End the Pro Bowl or make it matter. Give the winning conference an extra challenge in the Superbowl, or have a winning-conference-only eighth round in the next years’ draft.
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So you want Pro Bowl caliber players from your team going all out, greatly increasing the risk of getting hurt in the Pro Bowl in order to secure an extra challenge for, more than likely, another team…or to get an eighth round draft pick?! Yeah, every GM in the NFL just had a mysterious feeling of nausea after you hit “submit”…

By: ahs2

ahs2 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:07:02 +0000

bearsstillsuck says:
Feb 22, 2012 7:50 PM
“…the second or third strings should play the actual game for they have something to prove.”
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Prove what? They’re Pro Bowlers!!!

By: ahs2

ahs2 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:04:37 +0000

The smart business thing to do is to do nothing. In this current era of the NFL Pro Bowl, the game is sold out every year, the players that actually show up play the same way every year and people complain every year BUT Hawaii makes it’s money as do the players, the networks and the NFL at large. It’s an annual car accident people say they don’t want to watch but most do every year anyway. Accept it for what it is or watch something else.

I choose to skip it every year and don’t feel I’m missing out on anything. Besides, I don’t want guys from my team playing balls out and getting hurt over a meaningless game.

By: dougy1970

dougy1970 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:32:42 +0000

Make it like the Blue-Gray game and have the teams align based on their NCAA Conferences rather than AFC vs NFC. Don’t invite All Pros, accept appicants who actually want to play in the game.

There would be passionate play because players aren’t stars avoiding injury – they are hungry “future stars”. There would be stereoscopic fan interest from both NCAA and NFL perspective. So Christian Ponder would start and be representing FSU and the Vikes. You would tap into and hype SEC vs Big Ten tensions. You would build the NFL brand from a bottoms-up approach rather than top-down.

By: latenightroach

latenightroach — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:11:32 +0000

I remember when the winners earned 10k & the losers earned 5k, and the players actually played to win. Bunch of divas these days wanting to be elite celebrities instead of elite athletes.

By: shadowgm1

shadowgm1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:07:18 +0000

I thought it got exciting when the AFC wanted to prove (and did) that Cam Newton is a blowhard hack. That alone was worth the slow and ridiculous first quarter gameplay. Remember, you can't spell ICON without CON.

By: Xenu D. Alien

Xenu D. Alien — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:59:16 +0000

How about incentives? Pay out extra bonus money for individual statistical production like fantasy football.

By: raiders757

raiders757 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:19:17 +0000

@ autumnwindindc: That would be a cool idea, if it wasn’t for an even a greater fear of injury than we already have. Losing a star player during the middle of the season in a potentially meaningless game, would suck. I’ll also point out that the Super Bowl is such a huge event right now, that there is just too much preparation involved for the host city to only have two weeks notice. Indianapolis spent millions to host the big game, and were preparing for it ever since they won the bid.

By: raiders757

raiders757 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:12:11 +0000

Funny, I’ve always said the same things most have mentioned in here, but still find myself watching the game. This season, as fluffy as it was, became a nice wind down after watching the NHL All-Atar Game. A skills competition sounds great, but we should be careful of what we wish for. I’ve been for ending the Pro Bowl all together, but I have a feeling when it’s gone, I’m going to wish it wasn’t. When it was played after the Super Bowl, it helped ween us slowly down to the realization that the season was over. It may be a fluff bowl, but it’s better than nothing.

By: autumnwindindc

autumnwindindc — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:48:17 +0000

I’m going to create all kinds of hate & discontent with my proposal, but here goes:

Scrap the Pro Bowl as we know it, and replace it with a midseason equivalent to MLB’s All-Star game. The winning team determines the Conference team that gets to host as Home in the Super Bowl.

No more of this political Olympics-esque b/s with constant rotation between all of like five cities. A Superbowl in Lambeau because the NFC won? A Superbowl in Buffalo because the AFC won?

Let the home team really have an advantage. And let the Pro Bowl actually mean something.

By: gpete1962

gpete1962 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:47:42 +0000

Let NFC and AFC have a golf tournament in match play where each conference picks the 4 best players from the pro bowl selections and the winner wins the coin toss for the next SB.

This way Romo could possibly win something for once?

By: lemmam

lemmam — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:42:59 +0000

well if mayock says they need to make a deal then the NFL must do it. I trust the NFL will do it right much more than mayock

By: polishkingski

polishkingski — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:24:35 +0000

@joesixpack….dude you got that right. NO DOUBT i would be more interested in that than the joke that the pro bowl is. maybe thats an idea for the cfl. at least you would get a large total north american audience.

By: cmstrick

cmstrick — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:24:06 +0000

End the Pro Bowl or make it matter. Give the winning conference an extra challenge in the Superbowl, or have a winning-conference-only eighth round in the next years’ draft.

By: frankdatank23

frankdatank23 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:10:23 +0000

“Play the pro bowl after the season ends and Whoever wins, make them the home team, for the next year Super Bowl”
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oh yeah ! because being the home team in the superbowl means you have advantages of some sort to aid in winning the game, should your team ever make it there. “We’re wearing aqua baby, we play 550. ball in aqua, google it !”

By: rcali

rcali — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:43:55 +0000

How about replacing the pro bowl with the LFL title game?

By: lostsok

lostsok — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:22:10 +0000

They should just do a big banquet in Hawaii with highlight clips of each player. It would be far more entertaining.

By: pftstory

pftstory — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:02:53 +0000

All these people talk about being “subjected to the game” or otherwise imply because its played they have to watch it.

The attitude is “I don’t like it, they should cancel it.” Well some people are watching. The rating is not zero. So if enough people are watching to make it a profitable event, what does anyone who doesn’t like the game care if it is played or not? Just turn on a different channel that day.

You will survive if something is broadcasted and you dont watch it.

By: seanb20124

seanb20124 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:57:56 +0000

Maybe allow two fans to be the kickers in the game. Of course they would need to write an essay to be selected.

By: cwubz

cwubz — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:56:47 +0000

I would still like the winning conference to get the first selections in the third or fourth round of the draft. Coaches would then be scrambling to win this game!!!

By: sterilizecromartie

sterilizecromartie — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:53:07 +0000

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By: LoCoSu@%s

LoCoSu@%s — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:35:29 +0000

If the TV audience stops watching it for a couple of years, ad money will dry up and maybe, just maybe the NFL will just drop it.

By: JD Master MInd

JD Master MInd — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:33:21 +0000

I think the pro bowl game is a waste of time, the game between the champs and college all-stars at the beginning of the pre-season was better than that and that game sucked too. Nobody misses that game of course that was a few years back; I am a old dude as you can see.
I personally love the CFL I think it is a better game in a lot of areas than the No Fun League (NFL) and so was the xfl if it was managed right but what do I know.
Put some kind of College all-star game with coached from the nfl coaching the teams like they do with the senior bowl or something like that, or old players retired players playing a game of touch football something in that nature.

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