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PrestonyteParrot said:
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NFL eliminating Pro Bowl Games, but will still name Pro Bowlers

The NFL is eliminating the Pro Bowl Games, instead shifting the focus to celebrating the honor of being a Pro Bowl selection.
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18IsTheMan

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An all-star game really doesn't work for the NFL. The schedule doesn't work for a mid-season game and there would be way too much injury risk anyway. Doing it after the Super Bowl was enormously anticlimactic. You have it before the Super Bowl and a bunch of the best players in the Super Bowl aren't in the game. And there's just generally too much injury risk.
 
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The Reel Ess

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Well, they had gotten laughable.

My wife reminded me that the NFL teams used to play exhibitions in other sports after the season was over. She said some of the Redskins played another team that she can't remember in basketball at Winthrop when she was there in the late 80s. She remembered because she was a Redskins fan and Riggins participated. Now you can hardly get one outside in the offseason. I know contracts are strict about doing anything that might cause injury when a team is paying you millions.
 
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The Reel Ess said:
Well, they had gotten laughable.

My wife reminded me that the NFL teams used to play exhibitions in other sports after the season was over. She said some of the Redskins played another team that she can't remember in basketball at Winthrop when she was there in the late 80s. She remembered because she was a Redskins fan and Riggins participated. Now you can hardly get one outside in the offseason. I know contracts are strict about doing anything that might cause injury when a team is paying you millions.
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I seem to remember shows like NBC's Sports World and ABC's Wide World of Sports featuring decathlon-type competitions between athletes across a variety of sports that would usually feature a few NFL players. Now, I guess a golf pro-am is about as risky as NFL players would get in the off-season. lol
 
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This is how it should be. At least this way, we don't get instances where guys like Tyler Huntley are Pro Bowlers. Just have 1st, 2nd and 3rd Team NFC/AFC lists and an All Pro list and be done with it.
 
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