NFL moving Pro Bowl to Super Bowl week, venue

Item F in Peter King’s Ten Things he Thinks he Thinks this week was that the NFL plans to move the Pro Bowl to the venue of the Super Bowl, playing the all-star game as part of the build-up to the game played for the Vince Lombardi Trophy.

The Pro Bowl, played in Honolulu, HI since January 1980, has become irrelevant for many reasons, including the lack of star power due to players bowing out of participating and ridiculous rules, such as not allowing blitzing, which make football games lesser football games.

I think the NFL is reaching for solutions here. All-Star games in general just don’t have a lot of appeal these days, I don’t think. I’m not convinced that making the game part of Super Bowl week, which means no players from the participating teams will play, will add any interest to the game at all.

In fact the league could make the Pro Bowl a Powder Puff game featuring the best looking cheerleaders from each team as voted by the fans and I’d be only slightly more likely to watch. … Well, maybe more than slightly more likely. But not because the game would be played at the Super Bowl venue in the week leading up to the big game.