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NGT: Pro-Bowl being eliminated

Giantsfan79 : 7/25/2020 9:39 am
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Mike Garafolo
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One of the concessions from the NFLPA in talks with the NFL: Pro Bowl pay has been eliminated this year, sources say. Players on the winning team were slated to make $74,000, with players on the losing side getting $37,000. That’s almost $5m total set aside.


sure the NFL can vote to restart paying players in future years but once a cost gets cut it also sometimes never comes back. Poor ratings may not have killed the Pro Bowl, but my life experience says not paying the players to play will do the trick.
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robbieballs2003 : 7/25/2020 9:43 am : link
And the response from the NY Giant franchise  
LBH15 : 7/25/2020 10:20 am : link
"Oh?, we thought it had been eliminated about 10 years ago."
Another tragedy  
Big Al : 7/25/2020 10:30 am : link
caused by the pandemic.
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SFGFNCGiantsFan : 7/25/2020 10:38 am : link
One can only hope it's eliminated for good.
Now wait a minute  
jnoble : 7/25/2020 10:38 am : link
Has the Pro Bowl itself been done away with or just the players getting paid to participate?
That's  
Eric from BBI : Admin : 7/25/2020 10:46 am : link
not what the tweet says.

That said, the Pro Bowl is silly. Give the honor, but get rid of the game.
Reading is hard  
jlukes : 7/25/2020 10:50 am : link
Bonus pay is eliminated, not the game itself
Make it an awards ceremony  
widmerseyebrow : 7/25/2020 10:55 am : link
so Super Bowl participants can get the honor and we can do away with all the cheesy "alternates" who shouldn't be there.
clarification from Mike G  
bluepepper : 7/25/2020 11:46 am : link
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@MikeGarafolo
To correct/be clear on the Pro Bowl: The plan is for the players to be compensated for their participation as long as the game is held. It’s just part of the planned deferred compensation that was discussed between the league and the union. Apologies for a lack of clarity here.
RE: Make it an awards ceremony  
robbieballs2003 : 7/25/2020 11:51 am : link
In comment 14938091 widmerseyebrow said:
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so Super Bowl participants can get the honor and we can do away with all the cheesy "alternates" who shouldn't be there.


It's the Pro Bowl. Sometimes the alternates are more deserving. The real accolade is making the All-Pro team.
The Pro Bowl made sense when fans in most major cities  
GeofromNJ : 7/25/2020 1:00 pm : link
rarely if ever saw players who played in the other Conference. For the last 25-30 years that's not been the case which is the primary reason ratings have cratered.
RE: That's  
Toth029 : 7/25/2020 1:01 pm : link
In comment 14938082 Eric from BBI said:
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not what the tweet says.

That said, the Pro Bowl is silly. Give the honor, but get rid of the game.


Don't even truly need it. They have the All Pro.
they should cancel it forever in favor of...  
Torrag : 7/25/2020 1:04 pm : link
skills competitions. A football game with so many restrictions that isn't played in a manner reflecting the sport is useless.

Until the ‘80s or ‘90s,  
Big Blue '56 : 7/25/2020 1:10 pm : link
i really enjoyed watching this as the players went all out and the rules were the same as the regular season. Not sure when “no blitzing” came in. Of course, enjoyment or not, I was always concerned about injury in a game that didn’t count
The good old  
Big Al : 7/25/2020 1:15 pm : link
days of the Pro Bowl.
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So, instead new contracts in a year or two  
Matt M. : 7/25/2020 7:13 pm : link
will probably have steeper Pro Bowl bonuses.
Of late, the Probowl  
St. Jimmy : 7/25/2020 8:01 pm : link
has definitely been NGT.
RE: The Pro Bowl made sense when fans in most major cities  
Mad Mike : 7/26/2020 12:34 am : link
In comment 14938137 GeofromNJ said:
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rarely if ever saw players who played in the other Conference. For the last 25-30 years that's not been the case which is the primary reason ratings have cratered.

I'm not sure what you think changed in the last 25-30 years, but it isn't the inter-conference schedule. If interest in the game has "cratered" in that time, it's certainly not because fans never saw players from the other conference. We're not talking about 1970's baseball.
When I started watching football  
Big Al : 7/26/2020 8:35 am : link
back in ancient times, teams played two interconference games each year on a rotating basis each year. I think an exception was made in the 50s and 60s for the Baltimore Colts and the Washington (name censored) team who played each year.
Slightly off topic, but I enjoyed  
KeoweeFan : 7/26/2020 10:30 am : link
the annual game between the NFL champions and the "College All Stars". At that time, the honor and love of the game out weighed the money (when NFL salaries were a small fraction of of today's).

Clear memory of collegiate Lance "Bambi" Alworth consistently gliding past NFL defenders :).
I kinda remember  
Beezer : 7/26/2020 12:08 pm : link
the Steelers playing the college guys one night. The college guys couldn’t do a damn thing. No idea when they was. I was pretty young but it was a fun concept.
It was probably the  
Big Al : 7/26/2020 12:16 pm : link
last game in this series played which was in 1976. Steelers led 24-0!when game was called in third quarter due to lightning.

The last win by a college team was in the early 60s when they beat the Packers..
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