Pro Bowl value? Better concept?

Originally posted by SportOvaFilmTV:

Originally posted by KeepRabbitsOut:
An NFL olympics style affair? Would it still hold today's public attention?

Works for the combine.
And Pro Bowl players are better than college kids.

I wanna see the skill challenges return, along with fastest man & strongest man events. ( Make it happen NFL)

Do that and kill the Pro Bowl game itself. Only practice squad players would give 100% effort where the winners share is like $50k or so compared to $25k for losing. The average NFL player wouldn't risk breaking a finger nail for $25K, that is probably their weekend pocket money.

Send players and family to Hawaii, hand them an envelope stuffed with cash and a non partition" thanks for coming trophy" ........

Originally posted by SportOvaFilmTV:

Originally posted by ChipDouglas510:
NFL Skills Challenge, like the old QB challenge.

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Bring back NFL's fastest man.

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Old school skills contest. Prize money to the winners. Come up with offense and defensive skill. LOL at Steve Young throwing football at moving targets on golf carts.

Maybe a flag football game for charity.

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
Let them play Futball, broadcast it around the world, throw in Messi and Ronaldo. Either that or play the game in bubble-wrap.

Lol

Soon they'll be sent to hawaii to participate in a game of madden.

Originally posted by SoCold:

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Old school skills contest. Prize money to the winners. Come up with offense and defensive skill. LOL at Steve Young throwing football at moving targets on golf carts.

Maybe a flag football game for charity.

He was throwing darts!

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nfl/jarryd-haynes-merchandise-headache/news-story/0e372491aabd23273de7a1716985d08a

Later in the article Hayne talks about the Pro bowl in Australia. He would rather pre season game since pro bowl has injury issues etc.

Originally posted by jrg:

I really like what the NHL is doing. Having teams based on division in a tournament bracket.

NFC West All Stars vs. NFC South All Stars, etc, etc, etc.

I think NFC West would be pretty solid w/ SF, SEA, LA, ARI

lol theyre not going to play 7 football games to determine a Pro Bowl winner.

They need to increase the incentives to play. We're talking about the best players here. Which means they're getting paid very well for the regular season games.
$50k to the winners and $25k to the losers? Are you kidding me? The 29th highest paid player is getting about $15,000,000 a year. That's nearly a $1 million per game excluding play-offs.

You want the best of the best players to show up for a pro-bowl game where they risk Injury? Pay them a million dollars + or - 250k for winners or losers.

Originally posted by BobS:

Originally posted by SportOvaFilmTV:

Originally posted by KeepRabbitsOut:
An NFL olympics style affair? Would it still hold today's public attention?

Works for the combine.
And Pro Bowl players are better than college kids.

I wanna see the skill challenges return, along with fastest man & strongest man events. ( Make it happen NFL)

Do that and kill the Pro Bowl game itself. Only practice squad players would give 100% effort where the winners share is like $50k or so compared to $25k for losing. The average NFL player wouldn't risk breaking a finger nail for $25K, that is probably their weekend pocket money.

tie the skills challenge to madden. have their stats roughly reflect their performance in these events.

I would like to see players doing something similar to what the Dude Perfect(YouTube channel) guys do.

Originally posted by KeepRabbitsOut:

Originally posted by ChipDouglas510:
NFL Skills Challenge, like the old QB challenge.

An NFL olympics style affair? Would it still hold today's public attention?

another opportunity to smack talk a rival QB? yes.

I'd make it the Non-Pro Bowl.

Seriously. Still hand out the awards to the league's best players but then let them pick someone to play they feel hasn't had a chance to shine for whatever reason.

Rookies who aren't getting enough snaps behind an established veteran.
Backup QB's desperate for some game time.
A player not getting enough support or asked to do too much.
Free agents who want to show they still have it.

Give it to guys who are hungry to play more, not the guys who have so much to lose.

Would make for some good football, and would be useful to the teams too.

Failing that I'd keep it a 'fun' game, but spice it up a bit.

Throw in some wildcard invitational guest stars and see if it unearths some talent. Let's see what an olympic sprinter does at wide out, put a sumo wrestler in at center, see what an AFL fullback can do at safety.

Make it a co ed flag football with the lingerie league.