The NFL and NBC Sports hope fans want to tune in to the annual Pro Bowl tonight at 7pm ET. Commissioner Roger Goodell keeps threatening to get rid of the game if the quality doesn't improve. But, it doesn't seem like recent moves with the event have done anything to facilitate a better game.
Fan voting is a joke; Nothing more than a popularity contest conducted at a time when we have no idea who will have played an "all-star' caliber season. (This is the case with all of the major sports all-star balloting.) On top of that, too many of the players fans DO vote for (translated: the ones they want to see in the game) end up NOT playing because they are in the Super Bowl-- which wasn't an issue when the Pro Bowl was the week AFTER the big game-- or, they claim injury. I say "claim" because it seems to me that the league, which thinks the Pro Bowl is important enough to stage, has made it quite easy for elected/selected players to opt out of the game using injury as the excuse.
