NFL getting rid of Pro Bowl? (1 Viewer)

[Chaka]

People wouldn't watch a skills competition. There is a reason the cancelled the NFL Quarterback Challenge.

Eh, I think the QB Challenge suffered from quite a few problems. The first of which is that there was zero advertising for it so nobody had any clue when it was or what channel it was on. I'd be flipping through the channels and all of a sudden see that it was on and be like "I had no idea this was on!! Sweet!" Secondly, the NFL put no effort into making a big deal out of it at all. All the prestige went to the Pro Bowl so a lot of fans didn't care about the QB Challenge at all because of it. If the NFL pumped it up as being meaningful, more people would watch. And lastly, the good QBs stopped doing it. When you had guys like JP Losman or whatever in the QB Challenge, the public knew that nobody cared. But if the Pro Bowl was eliminated and the only guys that got the free trip to Hawaii were the guys in the skills competitions, I think you'd see more guys wanting to be a part of it. I also think there's lots of good young QBs that great up watching that stuff that would LOVE to take part in something like that today. I think you could very easily get a lineup of:Ryan FitzpatrickMark SanchezAndy DaltonJoe FlaccoTim TebowMike VickMatt StaffordAaron RogersCam NewtonI think you'd get tons of people willing to watch those guys.And if you did the NFL's fastest man with all those WRs and CBs talking trash, promoting themselves and having fun? Gold I tell you.Or what about letting the guys get creative and throw in a subjective judging competition? Let the guys tear it loose and have a TD Celebration competition. Let the guys do the stuff they all want to do and we all want to see but the NFL won't allow during games.

You can try to market it all you want but it's still a duck. Two years of mediocre to average ratings then the bottom will fall out when fans realize it's not much of anything. The hardcore fans can't sustain something like this. For it to work you need to get the casual fans interested and I am not sure how they can do that.

 

[Addai's Adidas]

Throw the skills competition before the super bowl. All day coverage.

 

[Bruno2]

People wouldn't watch a skills competition. There is a reason the cancelled the NFL Quarterback Challenge.

Eh, I think the QB Challenge suffered from quite a few problems. The first of which is that there was zero advertising for it so nobody had any clue when it was or what channel it was on. I'd be flipping through the channels and all of a sudden see that it was on and be like "I had no idea this was on!! Sweet!" Secondly, the NFL put no effort into making a big deal out of it at all. All the prestige went to the Pro Bowl so a lot of fans didn't care about the QB Challenge at all because of it. If the NFL pumped it up as being meaningful, more people would watch. And lastly, the good QBs stopped doing it. When you had guys like JP Losman or whatever in the QB Challenge, the public knew that nobody cared. But if the Pro Bowl was eliminated and the only guys that got the free trip to Hawaii were the guys in the skills competitions, I think you'd see more guys wanting to be a part of it. I also think there's lots of good young QBs that great up watching that stuff that would LOVE to take part in something like that today. I think you could very easily get a lineup of:Ryan FitzpatrickMark SanchezAndy DaltonJoe FlaccoTim TebowMike VickMatt StaffordAaron RogersCam NewtonI think you'd get tons of people willing to watch those guys.And if you did the NFL's fastest man with all those WRs and CBs talking trash, promoting themselves and having fun? Gold I tell you.Or what about letting the guys get creative and throw in a subjective judging competition? Let the guys tear it loose and have a TD Celebration competition. Let the guys do the stuff they all want to do and we all want to see but the NFL won't allow during games.

You can try to market it all you want but it's still a duck. Two years of mediocre to average ratings then the bottom will fall out when fans realize it's not much of anything. The hardcore fans can't sustain something like this. For it to work you need to get the casual fans interested and I am not sure how they can do that.

If the NBA and NHL can figure out an all day skills "challenge" or however they want to market it, NFL should be able to put something cool and watchable together. I say why not? I like Grove diesel's idea. I'd watch that before another Pro Bowl.