2010 ProBowl will be played before SuperBowl !!!!

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2010 Pro Bowl moving to Miami, will be played before Super Bowl
NFL.com Wire Reports


The 2010 Pro Bowl will be played one week before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Jan. 31 and both games will be staged in Dolphin Stadium, the NFL announced Tuesday.

"We are looking at alternatives to strengthen the Pro Bowl," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "We will continue to work with the players to make it a great event and will evaluate this concept after the 2010 Pro Bowl."


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Dolphins Stadium will play host to the 2010 Pro Bowl, one week before it plays host to Super Bowl XLIV.

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The site and date of Pro Bowl games after 2010 will be determined at a later date and will include playing the game on a rotating basis in Honolulu, the NFL announced.

The current AFC-NFC Pro Bowl format, which began in 1971, rotated annually between host sites until 1980 when it moved to Honolulu. The 2010 game also won't be South Florida's first Pro Bowl: the 1975 game took place in Miami's Orange Bowl. The game has been held in Tampa, Seattle, Dallas, Kansas City, New Orleans and Los Angeles on three occassions.

It's not a new notion to have the game moved up to take place between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. The NFL has discussed it multiple times in recent years, and Goodell told the Associated Press last month that having the game precede the Super Bowl would avoid a "somewhat anticlimactic" ending to the season.

The initiative to experiment with the Pro Bowl schedule and location was discussed over the past two years with NFL club owners, the NFL Players Association, the NFL Player Advisory Council, and other players, and it received wide player and club support.

"Moving the Pro Bowl to the Sunday prior to the Super Bowl can add even more excitement to Super Bowl week, one of the most anticipated weeks of the year," said Frank Supovitz, the NFL’s senior vice president of events. "Taking the Pro Bowl to new locations can showcase our top players to more fans around the country. We are also in discussions with key leaders in Hawaii to continue our partnership with the State of Hawaii, which has embraced the Pro Bowl for 30 years."

In addition to the Pro Bowl's annual ticket subscribers, tickets to the 2010 Pro Bowl at Dolphin Stadium will be made available to Dolphins season ticket holders, as well as to fans across the nation. Pro Bowl annual ticket subscribers in Hawaii will maintain their account status for any future games at Aloha Stadium.

The 2009 Pro Bowl will be played at Aloha Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 8, and will be televised on NBC at 4:30 p.m. ET.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Not crazy about the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl. :scratch:

Dumbest NFL move ever! I guess I see the value for the league, but not for the players and fans. ProBowlers in the SB definitely will not get to play, plus the best part of the ProBowl (IMO) is the peripheral events. I like the bench press, 40 yd dash, kickers competition, obstacle course, etc. I think the SB hype will take away from all that. The ProBowl is a time for players to come together peaceably. Some of these guys will have just dusted themselves off from painful playoff losses. Anyway, I think this is DUMB,DUMB,DUMB!!! :evil:

OH...and someone at the growl made a good point. We tend to play the SB in the south where we have warm weather and natural turf. I'd rather the SB playing field get an extra week to recover than have a game on it the week before. If the host team (in this case Miami) doesn't have a home playoff game, the ProBowl will get a field in better condition than the SuperBowl.

DUMB,DUMB,DUMB

Could not say it any better.