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Pro Bowl changes

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The NFL is overhauling the Pro Bowl, eliminating the AFC-NFC format in favor of captains picking 43 players per team regardless of conference, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

In addition, kickoffs will be eliminated from the game as a safety measure, one of several changes to the game.

Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders will be captains of their respective picking teams. The Pro Bowl draft will be held Jan. 22 next year and the game will be played Jan. 26 in Honolulu.

The changes will be officially announced at 2 p.m. ET.

 

 

Don't see how this will change the game any.  Just make it flag football and let them have fun. 

 

 

 

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9525557/nfl-makes-major-pro-bowl-changes

 

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It would be cool if they implemented a Pro Bowl weekend mid-season like baseball and basketball do. A full weekend of skills competitions ending in a pro bowl game on Sunday in a different NFL city every year. It sure as hell would put some butts in seats.

 

they had more players than usual backing out when they found out it wasn't going to be in hawaii. they look forward to that free trip there. you move it around to different places and you're going to be seeing more alternates play than usual.

 

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This is kinda interesting to have it done draft style, but it wont help teams like ours get recognition.

 

Although I guarantee Deion will take Cam.

 

Also, they need to eliminate Pro Bowl counts as statistics for players. It's just stupid and pointless. Just have All Pro teams as a statistic, rather than "Troy Polamalu made 20 Pro Bowls despite actually being good for only 3 of those years."

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The NHL does this and it was first implemented i 2011 when the Carolina Hurricanes hosted NHL All-Star weekend. However, NHL All-Star weekend remains interesting because of the skills competition. 

 

The NFL can do all they want to make it seem more interesting, but it wont' get any more views than usual and less they decide to bring the skills competition back.

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It would be cool if they implemented a Pro Bowl weekend mid-season like baseball and basketball do. A full weekend of skills competitions ending in a pro bowl game on Sunday in a different NFL city every year. It sure as hell would put some butts in seats.

 

you mean like hockey does?

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It would be cool if they implemented a Pro Bowl weekend mid-season like baseball and basketball do. A full weekend of skills competitions ending in a pro bowl game on Sunday in a different NFL city every year. It sure as hell would put some butts in seats.

 

I like the idea but I can not imagine too many guys would want to play, risking getting injured mid season for something that is completely meaningless.

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