Comments on: NFLPA president calls Pro Bowl an “important tradition” http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/ ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.com Sat, 25 May 2013 13:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: melissashusband http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1750076 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:50:35 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1750076 All you idiots referring to the free trips to Hawaii the pro bowl is now played at the site of the superbowl. morons!

]]> By: jdmpls http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746908 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:46:30 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746908 The answer is simple

]]> By: gimletontherocks http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746776 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:13:17 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746776 The pro bowl sucks, but I just don’t understand cutting it out entirely and trying to hype the NFL draft’s media machine. The draft? Instead of a game? Goodell doesn’t know what he’s doing.

]]> By: majbobby http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746581 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:12:53 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746581 Heck with the game. I would rather see the skills competition return.

]]> By: packermilitia http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746574 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:09:35 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746574 Increase the payday for the players….that is the only way they’ll come and REALLY play. Make it a $500,000/$250,000 proposition and I bet they’ll play a game for us. Also: Forget the damn fan vote. Let the players and coaches handle it. I’m sick of Tebow or other mediocre (albeit controversial) players playing to the media and fans. The coaches and players know who has had a good season this year….not LAST year or the year before.

]]> By: keepitrealplz http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746551 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:00:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746551 It’s a joke !

]]> By: Vegas Guy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746170 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:21:20 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746170 “The fans don’t really care much about the game.”

Yeah.. they do..

The players are never going to play this game with any kind of intensity because they don’t care about it. And they don’t care about it because it’s more important that a $35mil RB doesn’t get hurt VS put on a meaningless show. (And I don’t blame them).

Just cancel the thing. Expand the season to 18 games and 2 preseason and go from there.

]]> By: phillyphan72 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1746025 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:55:47 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1746025 Id say scrap NFC vs. AFC
and make it North vs South one year and East vs. West another .

]]> By: mogogo1 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745939 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:42:23 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745939 It’ll be an “important tradition” right up until the NFLPA is assured that guys will still get compensated for being named All-Pro and that they’ll still get free trips to Hawaii that they can use whenever they want. The moment that is settled, the union won’t even remember what the Pro Bowl was.

]]> By: j0esixpack http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745873 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:29:36 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745873 Make a NEW “important tradition”

Take whatever expenses are earmarked for the Pro Bowl and hold indoor events in each and every state where a Pro Bowler will come and spend a day with kids, encouraging them to exercise, eat healthy, and stay in school.

The NFL might even consider doing this on Super Bowl Sunday itself – hosting a Super Bowl party for at-risk kids and kid contest winners.

The Super Bowl is often a day about pigging out and commercialism – it’d be a nice day to showcase the best NFL players giving back to the community and trying to stop the epidemic of obesity

(if anyone from the NFL needs help fleshing this out drop me a line )

]]> By: RavenzGunnerz http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745759 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:09:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745759 Play it, those who don’t want to watch, have plenty of options.

]]> By: rayburns http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745744 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:05:59 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745744 Let’s move the Pro Bowl to Buffalo the week before the Super Bowl and see how long the NFLPA wants to maintain this tradition

]]> By: terwoiu http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745739 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:04:36 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745739 No, what it really means if you eliminate the game we no longer can use “4 time Pro Bowl nominee” in contract negotiations….

]]> By: justanotherdummy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745719 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:59:24 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745719 It is not important at all. Time for it to go.

]]> By: technovike http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745708 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:58:15 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745708 Oh, and add a Cheerleader swimsuit competition and a 32 team Beach Volleyball world cup style competition.

]]> By: sirbenly http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745707 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:58:08 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745707 The Pro Bowl should evolve into something completely different so that we no longer compare it to a regular season or playoff game that we have all been watching for the past 5 months. It should be a game of flag football. That way, players won’t risk as much injury, they can have fun playing a slightly different game and the fans can see how NFL players perform without pads and tackles. Also, maybe it can help promote the NFL’s flag football league. Since it is just meant to be a fun and good time anyway, I see only positives in this.

]]> By: chatham10 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745697 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:56:16 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745697 This game is important? Then why is half the guys who play were not chosing to begin with, I think more guys back out then play as they have received their bonus for being all pro and have no desire to play in this game.

]]> By: mdpickles http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745696 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:55:51 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745696 Pro Bowl has become a sham. $$$. When a player backs out of the Pro Bowl, another player gets selected and earns an escalator bonus, even though they didn’t deserve it.

]]> By: technovike http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745692 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:55:29 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745692 Fans have it on tv because they are transitioning to sundays without football. i would argue less than half the football fans actually watch it. It is not a top contender in the ratings, last i saw it lost out to american idol for weekly ratings, and that show is a shadow of its formal self.

Suggestion:
A week long Pro Bowl a Month or 2 after the season for the real pro-bowlers to heal up.
Celebrity golf game,
Skill Competition for every position, (top 3-5 compete – your actual Pro bowlers).
NFL Player Madden football tournament,
and maybe a divisions Flag football playoff Tournament. 8 teams, players of each division on a team. or 2 teams made up of the Pro bowlers,
and then an ESPY Like award ceremonies to end the week.

Id watch that

]]> By: suhnum1fan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745688 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:55:14 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745688 Make it a flag football game

]]> By: holdsteady76 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745675 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:53:05 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745675 I’d rather watch them have a pie eating contest.

]]> By: preventoffense http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745665 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:51:28 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745665 The Pro Bowl is an important perk……eerrrrrr, I mean tradition.

Signed
Millionare’s of NFLPA

]]> By: johnnyjagfan http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745663 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:51:17 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745663 NFLPA:

Just come out and say it. “Pro bowl players want the free trip to Hawaii, the extra knot for our pocket be it $25 or $50k, and ain’t gonna play real football there because we may get hurt. So pay for our trip and shut up!”

]]> By: njvike http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745660 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:50:49 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745660 Of course the NFLPA wants it — its an all-expenses paid BOONDOGGLE for their players. The Pro Bowl is a joke.

]]> By: muckfodell http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745643 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:48:32 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745643 The bottom line is: Who wants to risk injury in a meaningless game?

I don’t blame any player for going 50% to protect his future earning power.

]]> By: agelardi http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745632 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:47:25 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745632 So Domonique Foxworth thinks that star players are going to risk career long paychecks in order to play harder for one exhibition game check?

]]> By: bangitfootball http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745614 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:43:01 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745614 Last years Pro Bowl was truly a disgrace. I thought the defensive line was counting one- one thousand, two- one thousand, three- one thousand ….. after the snap. It was embarassing. The term slow motion would be too fast to describe it. Why bother with such a silly effort by this guys.

]]> By: canuck54143 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745611 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:42:55 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745611 Hgh testing in exchange for probowl

]]> By: nineroutsider http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745609 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:42:34 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745609 So important that I’ve seen a total of about 45 minutes of it since ’92 and that was 45 minutes too long.

]]> By: chocopoppy http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/04/26/nflpa-president-calls-pro-bowl-an-important-tradition/#comment-1745608 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:42:21 +0000 http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=621704#comment-1745608 The problem isn’t getting them to show up (well, maybe a few megastars), it’s that once there they play football like I do with my kids in the backyard. Get rid of this stupid game. Plus then Goodell can claim he’s doing it for “safety” reasons.

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