2011 Pro Bowl will be played week before Super Bowl

[CF74]

Usually I get depressed after the Pro Bowl cause there's no football for months but this year was different. Having the Super Bowl to end the season made it go away for me, kinda weird how that worked out...

 

[DFWJC]

So Romo, Ware, Felix, Spencer, Austin, Ratliff, Jenkins, Witten, etc won't be making the trip to Hawaii in 2011. Good!

 

[lqmac1]

Posted by Michael David Smith on March 2, 2010 3:52 PM ET

The NFL has declared the experiment of playing the Pro Bowl a week before the Super Bowl a success, announcing today that in 2011, the Pro Bowl will be played one week before the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year. As previously announced, the Pro Bowl is moving back to Hawaii in 2011.

"Playing the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl generated more excitement and interest in the event and also kicked off Super Bowl week in an innovative new way," NFL Senior VP of Events Frank Supovitz said in a statement. "We are pleased to return to the State of Hawaii, which has embraced the Pro Bowl for 30 years."

The 2010 Pro Bowl on ESPN was watched by an average of 12.3 million viewers, the most for a Pro Bowl since 2000 and a 40 percent increase from 2009.

Next year's Pro Bowl will be shown live on Fox at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, January 30, 2011. Super Bowl XLV will be a week later on Sunday, February 6, at Cowboys Stadium, also televised by Fox.

don't matter, none of our players will be playing in that game. We will be practicing

 

[dallasfaniac]

Meh, it's the Pro Bowl. They might be better off moving the location every year rather than just in Hawaii. Like a consolation prize to teams that aren't able to host the Superbowl or to states that don't have a professional football team. If they had the Pro Bowl in Las Vegas, I'd go, even if there weren't any Cowboys at the game.

 

[Hoofbite]

I don't care if they play the Pro Bowl in the middle of summer in my backyard. I'm still not watching it.

Haha.....

Welcome Sarge's back yard for the 2011 Pro Bowl......It should be a doozy.

 

[jimmy40]

The premise of not having the players from the 2 best teams is just dumb in my opinion. I know it's about dollars and it works for that, but I find it less interesting now than I did before.

Being good enough to play in the Super Bowl should earn those players the right to not play in this worthless piece of garbage game.

 

[Teren_Kanan]

I don't care if they play the Pro Bowl in the middle of summer in my backyard. I'm still not watching it.

This.

When I want a ****ty football game, where people go for it on 4th down, go for 2 point conversions at random, I'll just go play Madden online.


I really wish they'd do something to the pro bowl to make it competitive. I know it would suck to play hard and get injured in a game that doesn't matter.. but still, it's such a ****ty played game.

 

[Sarge]

Haha.....

Welcome Sarge's back yard for the 2011 Pro Bowl......It should be a doozy.

BYOB...........

 

[jackrussell]

I'm feeling that lipstick/pig vibe.

 

[Doomsdayblitz]

That blows me away. It was a resounding failure this past season, so let's do it again! Every year, the best two teams in the NFL play in the Super Bowl. They are usually there because they have a hand full of Pro-Bowl players. So, that means every Pro-Bowl, all of the Super Bowl Pro-Bowlers will be forced to weigh the pros & cons of going or not.

Secondly, it takes away the pageantry of the Super Bowl. "Hey, we gotta fill the void of the off week, let's put the Pro-Bowl in there."

Having the Pro-Bowl IN HAWAII after the Super Bowl has been fine all these years. Why mess with it? It has many more negatives than positives, and won't draw any more fans than it did before.

 

[jackrussell]

That blows me away. It was a resounding failure this past season, so let's do it again! Every year, the best two teams in the NFL play in the Super Bowl. They are usually there because they have a hand full of Pro-Bowl players. So, that means every Pro-Bowl, all of the Super Bowl Pro-Bowlers will be forced to weigh the pros & cons of going or not.

Secondly, it takes away the pageantry of the Super Bowl. "Hey, we gotta fill the void of the off week, let's put the Pro-Bowl in there."

Having the Pro-Bowl IN HAWAII after the Super Bowl has been fine all these years. Why mess with it? It has many more negatives than positives, and won't draw any more fans than it did before.

The TV ratings would disagree with this.