My latest hair-brained idea to fix the Pro Bowl

[CoastalCat]

The problem: The Pro Bowl sucks because the players don't try.

 

The plan....

1. Move back to conference teams

2. Give winning conference an extra home inter-conference game the next year. For example, The NFC South plays against the AFC South next year. Under the new plan, if the NFC wins the Pro Bowl, 3 of those 4 games (instead of 2) would be at home. 

 

Pros:

1. Players would try harder

2. Fans and players would vote in the best players, rather than just the popular ones or homers. You can bet your hat that I'd send Aaron Rodgers to the Pro Bowl over Cam if it meant a better shot at an extra home game.

3. Ratings would soar

 

Cons:

1. Owners would scoff at it because they'd potentially lose game revenue for one week each year.(even though it would likely even out over time) 

2. Players would complain because more games where they have to try = bad

 

Alright, what say you? Bring forth the "that is stupid" comments, "just cancel the Pro Bowl" comments, gifs of various people shaking their heads, and (my favorite) completely unrelated sideboob gifs. 

[Mother Grabber]

the pro bowl will never be the same as the MLB or NBA all star game because no one wants to get injured.  it's an expo and will always be an expo.  the players and teams don't want a real game where someone can risk their ability to play in a game that matters to their superbowl chances.

[CoastalCat]

the pro bowl will never be the same as the MLB or NBA all star game because no one wants to get injured.  it's an expo and will always be an expo.  the players and teams don't want a real game where someone can risk their ability to play in a game that matters to their superbowl chances.

 

If you added that incentive, I bet you'd be surprised how many players both accept the invite, and play.

[pstall]

Just stop playing. Dull and bloated. It's like giving away swag baskets of stuff the average person would kill for they give celebs at an awards ceremony.

[PanthersClinic]

They should just make it solely a skill competition such as deepest throw, most bench presses of 225lb, fastest 40, fastest 100yds, most catches of football from machine at high velocity or highest %, longest FG, longest punt, then they could do a sexiest man competition with just Luke Kuechly and all your wives can be the judge since that's what happens every panthers game anyway.

[davos]

It should be a weekend skills competition.  That was always what I found fun to watch.  

[Pejorative Miscreant]

It should be a weekend skills competition. That was always what I found fun to watch.

This. Do this and the senior bowl on the weekend . It would get a lot of people involved and peak the interest about the draft

[Eazy-E]

Just get rid of the fan vote.

[NanuqoftheNorth]

Long past time to do away with this snoozefest. 

 

Players don't want to jeopardize their lucrative careers for a meaningless game and fans shouldn't either.

 

Would have more fun watching Dodgeball for the umpteenth time.

[Goondal]

Just because Bud Selig is done as commish for MLB does not mean we need his ideas in the NFL and this is worse than his tying HFA in the World Series to the ASG.

 

1) The NFL schedule works fine already as teams and fans already know for the most part who is coming to town and when.  It does take eight years for an OOC team to come to each city but at least you know when it is going to happen.  This would mean some teams go sixteen years without visiting a city.  Heck, I moved to Denver in '05.  They hosted the Panthers in '04 and then went to Carolina in '08.  Thanks to a new rule they also played in Charlotte in '12 and will not return to Denver until '16.  I move away last month.  I was there for ten seasons and did not get to see my team once.  That was rare because of a stupid scheduling rule change but your rule would make it common.

 

2) The players from the best teams would still not be playing because they would be in the Super Bowl.  It would be silly for them to compete for an extra home game if it could hurt their chances at a championship.  One of then would be punished for things out of their control.  Makes no sense

 

3) Three teams already agree to give up a home game for London each year.  If their conference loses then they are now giving up two home games.  There are obviously major problems with that.

 

4) Your fan vote thing works both ways.  Yeah I would vote for Rodgers, but instead of stuffing the ballot box for Cam I would be stuffing it for Geno Smith or Blake Bortles.

[TN05]

Eh, I'd prefer to move the Pro Bowl a week after the Super Bowl, offer a large financial bonus $500k-1m per player who actually plays in the game) to the winning team, and rotate between European cities. Give players a nice vacation and a big incentive, and they'll play real football. Show real football to Europe, and maybe they'll take it up.