Of course the players wouldn’t wanna get rid of it.

1. Fine players that play in the Pro Bowl and that don’t reach their personal average for their skill set…QB’s-completion percentage, RB’s- avg yds per game, etc… this might not work for every position but it would help.

2. Keep it in Hawaii but move the date. The best choice would be a week after the SB. Otherwise do it in Feb or March when we’re starting to Jones for football. Anything later and injuries could become an issue for the upcoming year.

3. Another suggestion is to drop preseason to 3 games and make the final preseason game an away game for the losers of the Pro Bowl. It provides a little incentive since most teams don’t want to end the pre-season with a loss which is more likely to happen if it’s an away game. Essentially, the winning conference at the Pro Bowl would get 2 home games in pre-season while the losers would only get 1.

4. Tweak the choosing component on players. Currently a number of players go based solely on reputation and not on how they played the previous year. Pro Bowl should be a reward for outstanding play and not for being on camera. I’d suggest an actual, rational piece that disallows anyone from playing that was not in the top third in avg. for their skill set…. At a minimum this would exclude popular players that didn’t play all or most of the year but regularly get voted to go based on reputation.

I’m sure there are other suggestions equally valuable. My main point is that it is preferable to ending the Pro Bowl if they’re not willing to tweak it to make it competitive and entertaining.

1. Pro bowl players choose an “on the bubble but not signed” player to represent them for the game. Basically their horse to run. Sort of real fantasy.

2. Each player/bubble has a charity sponsor to represent that will benefit. Media could exploit the aw shucks stories.

3. Play the game in Oct/Nov(?) so any “bubble” player who really shines has a shot to make a team.

I realize they do something like this on espn already, but the one they do is awkward and poorly produced.

If they actually did a prime time network show it coudl work really well. They could make it intertaining by doing in with say, NBC and working wiht the SNL cast to do skits or something else entertaining.

Yes maybe this is a stupid idea but it would be far better than the pro bowl. At least people MIGHT watch it. And if they did, at least there would be the SLIGHT chance of entertainment.

Unlike the pro bowl, which is compeltely not entertaining and nobody watches it.

give this man the Nobel Peace prize — this is the best idea ever.

Not true … they don’t HAVE to play the game … for crying out loud, people — as long as the TV ratings are good, this awful thing won’t go away. take advantage of the NFL putting this in the Dead Week between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl — take the family on a ski trip, or take a “day date” with the wife (you know, the one you’ve ignored every Sunday since August), or volunteer at a local school event, or clean the garage … ANYTHING but watching the stupid Pro Bowl.

fool me once, shame on you…. fool me twice, shame on me.

The best players are dukin’ it out at the Superbowl….

Most all-star games are tough to watch. My rankings of best-to-worst:
1. Hockey: (player draft rather than East vs. West)
2. Baseball
3. Basketball
4. Football

Both Basketball and Football suffer from the same issue: no desire to play defense or get physical.

Baseball should be the purest game, but they aren’t playing to win, every team gets a representative, every pitcher gets an inning or a batter, there’s now a minor leaguer mop-up guy to avoid ending in a tie as occurred recently when they ran out of pitchers. Oi.

I’d rather watch a football skills competition or anything that resembled a competition.