Pro Bowl!

So the Pro Bowl's this Sunday, for the first time to be held before the Super Bowl; and we're hearing more than ever that the event needs to be "fixed."*  I don't disagree.  This piece by Greg Cote of the Miami Herald expresses a popular sentiment in its title: "Pro Bowl is an embarrassing waste of time."  To fix the Pro Bowl, Cote suggests:Mak[ing] it after the Super Bowl again so you aren't automatically eliminating the best players from the best teams; and "Requir[ing] players selected to actually play [by rescinding Pro Bowl bonuses and eligibility for next year's Pro Bowl balloting]. The problem with these two measures is that they don't at all address the fundamental problem with the Pro Bowl, which is that it includes a football game at all.There's little need to get into it other than to say that football is a brutal game, professional football careers are already too short, and these guys have no real incen...