{"id":79870,"date":"2022-09-27T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-pro-bowl-players-be-interested-in-participating-in-the-pro-bowl-replacement\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T18:27:11","slug":"will-pro-bowl-players-be-interested-in-participating-in-the-pro-bowl-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/will-pro-bowl-players-be-interested-in-participating-in-the-pro-bowl-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Pro Bowl players be interested in participating in the Pro Bowl replacement?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nine years ago, Peyton Manning urged Pro Bowl players to play the Pro Bowl with enough gusto to keep the league from pulling the plug on the game. Now that the league has Kevorkian’d the Pro Bowl, it has turned to Peyton’s production company to come up with a replacement that players and fans will choose to embrace.<\/p>\n

But first, the players.<\/p>\n

The Collective Bargaining Agreement, at Article 38, Section 6(b), gives the league the sole ability to cancel the Pro Bowl in any given year, and to replace it with something else. However, the CBA is clear on one key point: \u201cParticipation by a player in such a replacement event shall be voluntary.\u201d (As to the Pro Bowl game itself, the CBA requires the NFL Players Association to \u201cactively cooperate with the NFL to ensure participation in the game and prompt reporting by players selected.\u201d)<\/p>\n

In other words, any, some, or all Pro Bowlers can choose without pressure or consequence or obligation to say \u201cno thanks\u201d to the post-Pro Bowl Pro Bowl.<\/p>\n

on Monday night’s ManningCast<\/em>Peyton said, via Sports Business Daily<\/em>that \u201call ideas are on the table\u201d for the replacement activities that will culminate in a flag-football game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re going to make it fun,\u201d Peyton said. \u201cWe might have some beer chugging contests, hot dog eating by offensive linemen. We’ll take suggestions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pro Bowl had become an embarrassment in recent years, but for good reason. It made no sense for players who were healthy enough to play in one more game to play so hard that they risked an injury that they’d spend the offseason rehabbing. For looming free agents, an injury would derail a payday.<\/p>\n

The league for years was willing to keep staging what had become two-hand-touch in full pads, because people kept watching it. The question now becomes whether anyone will watch whatever Peyton cooks up, along with their favorite players playing flag football to cap the week.<\/p>\n

Whether fan will watch hinges on whether players will show up. And that will be the first challenge for the league. If participation is truly voluntary, why do anything that entails any amount of physical risk?<\/p>\n

And if anyone thinks that flag football entails no physical risk, it would be wise to Google the name \u201cRobert Edwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getty Images Nine years ago, Peyton Manning urged Pro Bowl players to play the Pro Bowl with enough gusto to keep the league from pulling the plug on the game. Now that the league has Kevorkian’d the Pro Bowl, it has turned to Peyton’s production company to come up with a replacement that players and …<\/p>\n

Will Pro Bowl players be interested in participating in the Pro Bowl replacement?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20782,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/all-star-game-audience-creeps-toward-pro-bowl-levels\/","url_meta":{"origin":79870,"position":0},"title":"All-Star Game audience creeps toward Pro Bowl levels","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Getty Images Once upon a time, the Major League All-Star Game counted as one of the tentpole events of summer. That time isn't now.On Tuesday night, the midsummer not-as-classic-as-it-used-to-be fell to an all-time low audience of 7.5 million, via Sports Business Journal.That's more, but not much more,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sports"","img":{"alt_text":"The 92nd MLB All-Star baseball game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1242017784-e1658362932412.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":78571,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nfl-replaces-pro-bowl-with-the-pro-bowl-games-featuring-weeklong-skills-competitions-flag-football-game\/","url_meta":{"origin":79870,"position":1},"title":"NFL replaces Pro Bowl with ‘The Pro Bowl Games’ featuring weeklong skills competitions, flag football game","date":"September 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The NFL is replacing the Pro Bowl with weeklong skills competitions and a flag football game, The Associated Press has learned.The new event will replace the full-contact showcase started in 1951. It will be renamed \"The Pro Bowl Games\" and will feature AFC and NFC players showcasing their football and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sports"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-160211956-e1664297043817.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}