Look.
And
I I'm surprised by the mere existence of a conversation
about the future of the Pro Bowl. Yeah. We had kind of come
to a
clumsy truce where it's two hand touch in full pads. And
that's okay, because the players should be putting
themselves at risk in the NFL, is okay with it because they
put it on TV and a lot of people watch and they make
money from it.
Apparently, it's not okay with the NFL. Here's Roger Goodell
from yesterday talking about possible changes
to the Pro Bowl.
I think what we tried to lay out as what we've been talking
to the nflpa about and many of our players individual. I've
spoken to several players myself
about
what works and what doesn't work. I think the conclusion
was that the game itself doesn't work
and that we needed to find a different way to celebrate our
players,
celebrate. The fact of these being our Pro Bowl players in
the best players in our league
and give them an opportunity to celebrate that.
With our fans, we talked an awful lot about some of
the events around
the pro bowler really extraordinary popular,
but it's a quarterback challenge. Some of the other
events. So those are things that will probably build them.
That's what I want. This is what this is one of the rare
occasions
where the NFL is going to consciously. Give up a little
bit of its scratch here,
right? Because I don't care what the alternative it is.
It's not going to be viewed on TV and consume the same way
a game would be. But the problem is the game is a complete and
total embarrassment to the NFL it is and there was a time ten
years
or so ago, where the commissioner was huffing and
puffing about it publicly. You know, what? If this game
doesn't improve, we're going to get rid of it. And then
realize, well, it's kind of hard to expect these guys after
they've made it through a season. Healthy enough to play
one more game to go, beat the crap out of each other, right?
And potentially at themselves. Injured at a time when we
supposedly care about player, health and safety. So we backed
off
and I think they recognized
They just have to ask himself.
Is that three hours
of? Oh my God. I can't believe that. That is an NFL football
game. Is that worth? Whatever money they're making and they
apparently are coming to the Strategic decision that it is
not. Well, like we talked about with players or Deshaun Watson
and like the look
for the shield and all that.
I think you can make that argument here. It doesn't look
good on the shield. It doesn't. It's not it's not a good thing
for the NFL as a whole. Yeah, like you said, it makes money
and people turn on anything NFL.
No matter what, but an overall, I don't think it's a good look
for the league. The game is stupid and it doesn't
necessarily celebrate the plant. Celebrate the players
you discussed it to,
you know, the play is not going to be anything intense, you
know, not like it was when we were growing up or in the 80s
when my dad was playing in the game. We're
like, whoa, if you win, you get fifty five thousand dollars and
I only made two hundred thousand dollars this year. So
55,000 dollars to the winning team is a The winning team on
the plot, each player. It's huge money. I'll go out there
and hit some people really hard for that kind of money.
So that's where it's gone. Berserk because
a guy that's making twenty million dollars. A year is
going 55 thousand dollars. I'm gonna I might go to the club
tonight and have fun and spend fifty five thousand dollars of
the club with my friends and bottles
of champagne and whatever. So that's just not going to do it.
I am into the skills thing.
You've heard. I know we've discussed this
and I would like users. You know, what do you
What do you say snoozers soon as I watched it the first year,
they did it and I haven't washed. Well, they got to make
a better. I mean it was a crappy way to do it, you know,
and then they got to find a way to get the best players in
the sport there. We can't have it's the Pro Bowl that it's actually
the 13th and 14th best quarterbacks
in the league here, the applying because
the other top 10 or 12 didn't want to come. So here, this
guy's a pro-bowl quarterback, even though nobody voted for
him. And we just he's here because of cancellations. So,
that's an issue. Like, why can't with this current?
Sportsbook thing.
Like in all of that. How come the seizures can't you know
sponsor like the long throw quarterback competition my
home, sir, Alan whoever wins. They get a million dollars or
their charity gets a million dollars and the charity
representative there is there. So they're going to
feel the pressure of trying to win for that person.
Oh, here's another event. It's you know,
Derrick Henry verse, you know, Nick Chubb in the quarterback.
I mean, the running back like run Challenge and they got to
go through an obstacle course and do like and it's a In
dollars from DraftKings. And that's where I would like to
kind of. See it go. At least, I think, at least that's one
that comes comes in my mind. Not bad, but still it's not
football. I know it's not people people want football and
they'll tune in to watch football. The question is, will
they tune in for three hours on the Sunday between
the conference Championship games, and the
Super Bowl for something? Other than that? And, you know, you
make it a big celebration of the players and you have these
specific competitions, etc. Etc. Chad Johnson had an idea
that I really like current Pro Bowlers play against. Just
the past era of pro bowlers.
Old-school new-school.
No pads flag for Mal buddy while he's asleep. Old player.
Play flag football. Sorry, Chad Johnson. I like,
wow. You know what? Let me also say this. Nobody wants to watch
flag football. Exactly what he's interested in Flagstaff by
another trying to make flag football thing.
Nobody's interested in flag football, except the people
playing. Yes, frankly, but like Tim and get like
who who do we look at right now is you know
again just to add to it and I think if
No, I'd love to see Tyree kill verse
Jamar, Chase and 100 yard Sprint for a million dollars or
whatever like to make it real to where they don't laugh about
it as they run and tired
like, you know, so I would love to see it because there's a lot
of talk always that between pliers. There's been talk of
those homes out understand. That's how
there's they love to talk, but they never do. I know. So why
don't ya? That's where I can beat. This guy. Can beat that
guy but they never actually get make it worth their while they
might. There might Again, I go back to the old days. Darryl
Greene used to run in that damn thing every year. Why? Cause he
was like,
well, damn, I got thinking I'm gonna I gotta beat a bunch of
guys and I get twenty thousand dollars for it. That's a big
money for me at that time.
Question. Yes, answer. I hadn't thought about this until you
mentioned taking the 55,000 dollars and going out to
the club. Yeah.
I wonder how much the Alvin Kamara incident where he got
arrested at the stadium. Right? I wonder how much of that
influence the NFL to say.
That's just that's just the thing that you
you know, what? This, the game stinks, the games and
embarrassment. You throw on top of it that we're creating this
platform to bring our players together or doing with Dane and
there's going to be the risk of some sort
of incident that results in one of our players, getting
arrested at the Pro Bowl game itself. Sorry, we're not doing
this anymore. Yeah. I just can't help but wonder whether
that was part of it. I don't doubt that
it is risky. I mean, I hear you there. I definitely do for that
game. And yes, you know, again
to have it in Vegas, probably adds up the ante a little bit
more. But they got to do something and it is kind of
cool to what you said to start off
and I think it's at least interesting that they're
they're admitting it and then something needs to be done and
we'll see where it goes
before we go. We we have to at least wax nostalgic lie about
the one
and only in the past 30 years significant moment from the Pro
Bowl.
When Brian Mormon
decided to take off the fake Punt and Sean Taylor decided to
stop him from getting the first town. Good. Lord, I mean,
that is a wicked hit in the most intense regular season and
postseason game you can ever see. I still there. It is hit,
like show her. No head of Apple. I mean, it will leave.
It was put it on a
real. Yeah. Could teach it to the players. But yeah,
yeah, that that's there's a good reason why punters don't
want to perform in the Pro Bowl.