Pro Bowl to be played before Super Bowl!?

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's suggestion last month that the league should consider moving the Pro Bowl to the weekend before the Super Bowl has received lukewarm reaction.

"So what happens to the guys who make the Pro Bowl who are on the Super Bowl teams?" said Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, an eight-time Pro Bowler and member of the franchise's 2000 championship team. "They can't play? No way, that's not gonna fly."

Goodell's motivation for moving the game up is to generate more interest for the poorly viewed event by capitalizing on the excitement surrounding the playoffs and the upcoming Super Bowl.

"I don't know what you can do, but it's so hard when players and coaches are worried about getting hurt," Jacksonville Jaguars running back Fred Taylor said.

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Who does Goodell think he is? Quite honestly I am getting sick of all his little future reforms, he is doing more damage than good just by talking about it.

The risk of injury would just be idiotic for teams with players that still have to play the Super Bowl. Yeah, more people would watch the Pro Bowl if they moved it up before Super Bowl Sunday; but this is just another way for the NFL to make money, and an idiotic way.

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"So what happens to the guys who make the Pro Bowl who are on the Super Bowl teams?" said Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, an eight-time Pro Bowler and member of the franchise's 2000 championship team. "They can't play? No way, that's not gonna fly."

Considering that a third of the players don't show up anyway, I think Ray is overstating things.