NFL Pro Bowl

The National Football League's reward or recognition to the best players in the league every year is a game at the end of the year known at the Pro Bowl. This is kind of like the Major League Baseball All-Star game, except the MLB all-star game has some sort of a meaning in it unlike the NFL Pro Bowl. Whoever wins the baseball all-star game, will get home field advantage during the World Series that year. But, with the Super Bowl it really has no sort of real meaning to the players as the Super Bowl is played at a neutral site every year. Also, with football being such a physical and violent sport, the players really can't risk injuring themselves in the middle of the year so the game must be played after the regular season is over. It used to be played after the Super Bowl so that the players who were participating in the Super Bowl could compete, but there was almost zero interest from fans now that the actual season was over so they actually moved it to the weekend before the actual Super Bowl itself. It also used to be the two conferences would compete against each other but now even that interesting part of the game, as they now just get two retired NFL stars and draft the players from a big pool of all the Pro Bowlers. In my opinion this has really taken any sort of competition between the two conferences out of the game. It is practically like a touch football game out on the field as most of the players are much more concerned about not hurting each other or themselves, more importantly. Which I completely understand as they really are just looking out for their own careers instead of risking their entire livelihood and job on a silly all-star game that in the long run really will not even matter. That really is the problem out of the entire event, how are they able to make things more interesting unless these players are willing to go all out and risk themselves just for the entertainment of NFL fans and viewers. Also, I think another reason why very few people are interested in the Pro Bowl is because it is just at the end of the season kind of to cap it off and really has no meaning on the actual meaning of the season.