McGrits: I tried to watch a bit of it. I got on late when they were doing the flag football part. It was interesting for about five minutes. Were the other games (like kick tac toe) any better?

Kick tack toe was a mess, where most of the kickers were way off and the long snappers were more accurate. Move the Chains and the Gauntlet were way better and felt more atmospheric, the catching show was a waste of time as the receivers spent more time goofing off and the set-pieces fell apart when the catches missed.

knbwhite: Hendawg: He must be serious about this. Because if he was joking he would've put his balls on the refs head

Well, what if the ref was a C word and probably deserved it?

That's every weekend in the EPL, and we're not teabaggers.

UNC_Samurai: Stephen_Falken: It looks like instead of creating concussions, the NFL has apparently decided to turn the pro bowl weekend into a stupid reality show about redneck peoples' personalities. I watched about 15 seconds of down-homey peyton with that dumb accent talking into a radio to several rich young Black millionaires, then turned off my screen and drove a wooden stake through its heart. Also Beyonce has bodacious ta-ta's.

The NFL has been struggling to figure out what to do with the Pro Bowl for 25 years.  Most of the veteran players don't want to participate, and why would or should they put on pads for a game that means less than the preseason?  And the league isn't about to scrap the Pro Bowl entirely, because even a half-assed event gets more eyeballs than any other sporting event that week.

The solution is thus a little clearer -

1) Move it back to Hawaii. People want that quasi-holiday.
2) Move it to the week AFTER the bowl. No contact, so those who played can join in.
3) Pare away or alter the stuff that visibly didn't work e.g. replace kick-tac-toe with a field-goal derby involving non-kickers from different yards.
4) Give out random invites to elligible college graduates to mix and get a head start on the Draft, like a less formal combine to give them the taste of what they're up against, yet remain goofy non-contact stuff involving the new blood and the vets. Keep the catch-fest partially for this purpose.