Oh come on...just give it up!

So we all know the Pro-Bowl sucks. And we all know that the idea of moving it to the week before the Super Bowl was an ill conceived one at best. The question remains, however. How do you make it better.

The answer, my friends, is simple...you don't. The Pro-Bowl is an unnecessary thing. It has none of the history or tradition of the MLB All-Star game. None of the coolness associated with the NBA's All-Star weekend. Hell, it doesnt even compare to the NHL Skills Competition. The game is boring. The best players don't play. The ones that do, don't care about the outcome. There is no reason to watch this game. Solution...don't play it.

The NFL's grueling regular season schedule does not lend itself well to the type of all-star games they have in other sports. The very nature of the game makes playing an exhibition rather difficult. Either the players play at full speed, or they barely play at all.

Obviously, the game makes someone some money or else the NFL would have scrapped it by now, but what if the league did away with the Pro-Bowl and two of the pre-season snooze-fests. and added a seventeenth regular season game. This would make the league, and the individual teams much more money than keeping the Pro-Bowl.

The NFL is king. The league is already looking to expand the regular season to capitalize on its immense popularity, and it should. But seriously guys...enough is enough with the Pro-Bowl. Give your employees some time off. Name an All-Pro team, give out some bonuses, but lets just skip the game. Its kind of embarrassing. Sorry Hawaii.