Everybody’s playing instead of horsing around on the sideline. Making the roster becomes something more elite. And the per player winnings is divided among few guys, resulting in higher payouts.

2) PLUS, the NFL makes a donation, dollar for dollar matching the winning player payouts, to the charity of choice for each winning player. Zero for the losing side.

Make it a public spectacle about tying each player to each charity, putting them all on the hook personally. Playing soft cheats their charity, and exposes the player. The NFL merely deducts teh extra expense anyway.

3) Making the roster grants every player a full career income replacement insurance policy for anyone/everyone who can demonstrate that their career was impacted by any injury in the game.

4) Play to the egos. Every player who makes the Pro Bowl gets to wear a special badge on their uni sleeves and back of their helmets the next season, no matter what team they play for. Gold badges for the winners, silver badges for the losers.

5) Players pick the rosters. Period. NFC players pick the NFC roster only. AFC players pick the AFC roster only. No league. No coaches. No media. No public. The league merely ensures a well-rounded roster. The public merely fights for the chance to see those who the players themselves know are the best.

6) Top players who DON’T make the roster are eligible for being selected to skills competitions. Public votes for these. Winners get cash AND a special badge to wear the next season denoting reigning skill champ.

7) MISC: The game goes back to Hawaii. The coaching staff is that of the losing side for each Conference final. 2 winning members of the public, one for each side, get to spend 2 weeks in Hawaii being assistants to the head coach, wear the headphones, stand on sidelines alongside head coach all game.

Rodgers can give it his all for the next 10 pro bowls because he won’t be in the super bowl!

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Still aren`t over the debacle in Dallas, huh? If your stairway is to 7, better pitch a tent or take the escalator because you are going to be stuck there for a long time.

At the end of the season, most players are at the very least banged up and sore, why would a QB risk hyperextending his throwing arm trying to heave a ball 80 yards in some meaningless contest? Why would a running back/WR want to run a 40 yard dash or a cone drill on sore knees and ankles, and risk blowing something out. Maybe the risk is low, but its there, and even pro-bowlers has to be thinking about their futures, or in some cases, just their roster spot.

Let the coaches come up with totally ridiculous formations and plays.

Otherwise, just get rid of it.

Also, skills competitions are the devil. It should be saved for retired players during charity events or something.

Remember that promising New England RB that blew his knee out playing flag football in the sand, Robert Edwards. He had a great rookie year, then it was all over. The league doesn’t need anymore of that kind of silly tragedy.

Having said that, the rules of the game make it very difficult for a defensive player to get into the game. Being a former player, let me tell you that nothing would be more frusturating for me than having to sit back in 2 possible zone coverages against the best offensive weapons in the game. The quarterbacks know exactly what’s coming and the guys that play in the game pick complex defenses apart every week. They should allow man coverage and at least a 5 man rush. Otherwise the game is just a QB show.

Instead of the Super Bowl champ, have an NFL all-pro team play a game against a team of seniors/draft-eligible college players. The college kids would be busting it to try and improve their draft stock, so the NFL guys would have no choice but to play hard because they wouldn’t want to get their a$$ kicked by a bunch of college kids.

2) Take the voting out of the fans and players hands and have coaching staffs and personnel men do the voting with the stipulation that you can’t vote for anyone on your own team.

3) Since the Pro Bowl is no played prior to the Super Bowl, have the winning conference in the PB determine who gets the ball first in OT if the SB goes that route.

I say do away with it or just make it flag football. Maybe they should give 32 fans (one from each team) the chance to win (via sweepstakes or something) the opportunity to play in the game (flag) with the players. That would be awesome for the league from a PR standpoint.

Hey dummies & fake outrage creators at PFT (Florio):
IT’S A FREAKING ALL-STAR GAME. Get over it. Do you guys freak out about the NHL & NBA all-star games too?
Get over it. Ratings rule and it ain’t going away.
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You sir are clueless!

I know injuries would be a concern but like I said they play in post-season All-Star games already.