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They stopped playing in Hawaii after 2016. The Pro Bowl has been moved to Orlando, Florida.
This tells you just how little I’d been paying attention to the thing. 
Though, I imagine that it’s now a three-hour Orlando tourism ad.
Better idea; have somebody develop a more realistic looking version of Madden, and play it that way - that way, the best players play at their best ability, and if you throw enough computing power at it, it almost looks like the real thing.
If you’re getting rid of the NIT, then why not get rid of all college football bowl games that don’t have anything to do with determining the national champion while you’re at it? Treat the NIT for what it is - a “consolation prize” tournament. Besides, the NCAA found a use for the NIT - it’s used to test out experimental rules, which is what they used to do at the Maui Invitational and Great Alaska Shootout.
And there are a considerable number of people who watch the Super Bowl pretty much just for the halftime show…well, that, and the commercials.
I’ll go one better; do we really need the National Anthem before every sporting event - especially high school football? What other countries do that?
The Lions play against another team. It’s not like they’re airing a practice scrimmage. As a Giants fan I wouldn’t consider it a pointless Lions game if they were playing the Giants.
That makes about as much sense as saying “Don’t watch movies or television. Instead, put on plays in your backyard with friends.”
Then again, if I recall correctly, you’re the guy who thinks that the time of “stories” is coming to an end, and that entertainment in the future will just be youtube videos with no story or narrative arc at all, so maybe my ridiculous example doesn’t sound ridiculous to you. If so, fair enough, but then you’d be part of a vanishingly small minority.
What about fans from the other 30 teams?
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Michigander here as well, and if you claim you have never heard that, well, honestly…I don’t believe you.
Probably the best way to get non-Detroiters to stop complaining about the Lions always playing on Thanksgiving is to field a competitive team and almost always makes it to the post-season. That’s how Dallas usurped Detroit as the site of the big Thanksgiving game.
You would be really pissed if you watched Formula One, then. After the race they lead off with the winning driver’s anthem and follow it with the winning manufacturer’s anthem. That’s right, not one but TWO anthems, and it’s usually the German, Italian, or British anthems, very rarely the Australian or Dutch anthems, and no others due to the makeup of the teams and their locations.
I think the pro bowl should be a flag football contest coupled with a skills competition (I.e. bench press for the linemen, race for the receivers, running backs, and DB’s. Agility runs. Longest pass for the QBs). I think that might garner more attention than the disaster the NFL still insists on doing.
Like an NFL version of a home run derby or slam dunk contest?
They used to have a skills competition on the Saturday of probowl weekend. If they don’t still do that, they should reinstate it. Ideally that could replace the probowl game altogether. And finally, they should do this the week after the Superbowl so some of the Superbowl players could participate if they wanted to.
I still remember Chad Johnson (before he was Ochocinco) annihilating the JUGS catching competition. It was almost otherworldly.
It’s what I was thinking of, too. I remember an incline bench press competition that Warren Sapp won when he put up 375 pounds. And a longest pass contest along with accuracy drills for QB’s (hit a bulls eye for points; some of the targets moved. I remember Dan Marino winning the run and throw competition because he was most accurate, although he was slow with his knee braces).
It was fun, especially because the players were miked and in a jovial friendly mood.
A “tradition” that should be ended: players en masse leaping on and whacking each other to celebrate events on the field.
You’d think this would have become less popular after Ohio State players swarmed and injured a star teammate who ran back a kickoff for a touchdown in a championship game some years ago (he was out for the rest of the game and his team got pasted), but no.
This doesn’t even count the myriad other injuries suffered by athlete dingbats attempting to celebrate wins/grand accomplishments.
No, we don’t. Every time I go to a sporting event it bugs me. It’s nothing but unabashed propaganda. Completely ridiculous.
Yeah. I’m not a Michigander, but I did live there for one year (2002-2003). In that one year I heard many people joke about the Lions “always winning on Thanksgiving”.