[Red Badger]

NFL Ping!............

[dfwgator]

Why even bother.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Trial balloon for a whole lot of silly and destructive rule changes.

[0.E.O]

The Pro-Bowl has got to be the most worthless All-Star game in professional sports. It’s timing guarantees that members of the two championship teams won’t participate so what’s the point?

[InvisibleChurch]

Further cheapen? The nfl allstar game is the least attractive game of its kind. I suspect, without having read past the first sentence, that the nfl might be using these rules changes to see how they might work in the real NFL. NFL? Meet Nascar.

[The Wizard]

sounds like crap to me

[The Wizard]

they killed the game by playing it before the Super Bowl...dumb ass idea, must have come from a democrat

[mmichaels1970]

NFL scraps traditional AFC-NFC Pro Bowl format

Good. They should have scrapped it a long time ago. I think they ought to change it to an all rookie game.

[Colonel_Flagg]

The only all-star game that’s worth anything is baseball’s, and even then they introduced the inane idea of letting it decide home-field advantage in the World Series.

[KarlInOhio]

If it wasn't for a free week in Hawaii even the NFL players wouldn't pay attention to the Pro Bowl. Will the players still wear their home team helmets or is that too divisive? Or maybe they can sell sponsorship rights to the helmets to Nike and Budweiser?

[big'ol_freeper]

Pick me, Pick me!

[Mad Dawgg]

I got an idea, why don't we change the entire NFL format to having viewers vote for who is the best team by rating each player on a team via cell phones.

Each week a team gets eliminated (the one having the lowest vote total) and at the end the team left standing wins the Super Bowl.

The could call it "NFL Idle"...!

[VRWCarea51]

I don’t pay any attention to the Pro Bowl to begin with.
This just reinforces that.

Next year they will be resigned to flag football.

[Spruce]

A pistol vs. revolver death match would be kinda cool. Or flamethrowers vs. grenades.

[shove_it]

It is similar to what the NHL adopted a couple of years back, and it’s hard to imagine a more meaningless game than what the hockey players put on annually.

hockey ping

Pete Dougherty to the penalty box for two minutes for "bad mouthing"

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

The Pro-Bowl is the most useless of the All-Star games because nobody want to get injured. They should just scrap the game in favor of a skills competition.

[Popman]

Wow, what a great idea...I can't wait to watch the newest version of NFL flag football.../S

I actually don't remember the last time I watched the Pro Bowl..

This pretty much puts the final nail in the coffin...

[martin_fierro]

Making a waste of time game even wastier.

[mkboyce]

The NFL is becoming a rule-bound, unwatchable mess.

[Wurlitzer]

Very tired of paying taxes to build a playground for a bunch of felons or felons in making, to be paid way above their ability. It would be nice to be paid millions and only be successful less than 50% of the time.

If a team owner builds his own stadium, without taxpayer money and then has enough fans and TV revenue to pay someone millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, fine, great, good for them. But Nooooooooooooooooo, we are forced to pay for their playground. Then if we are dumb enough to want to see the game in person, we of course have to pay the ticket price, parking, extortion rate prices for food.

The NFL, NBA are a hangout for criminal human debris. You can take the player out of the human cesspool, pay them a ton of money and way too many return to the cesspool. Too bad for those few good people who actually are role models for society.