The NFL Has Outgrown the Pro Bowl

T'is the season for a plethora of blog posts explaining how they should fix the NFL Pro Bowl. Let's make a couple more adjustments to the rules, and somehow, it will all be fine and worth watching more than the commericials. I'm here to tell you my solution: it's time to give up on the Pro Bowl. But the reason for my rather ultimate Solomon-esque decision isn't just based on how bored I was catching snippets of the game. It's because of the nature of the game itself. The NFL has simply evolved too much, and the Pro Bowl is like the prehensile tail that simply needs to fall off. There are two major draws for any All-Star game in any sport. The first, obvious one is to see the biggest stars of the sport all on one stage. But having the stars there is useless if you aren't seeing the players able to go against each other, mano-y-mano, as a spectacle just ranking under the championship game itself. So, we're dragging out the biggest names in the...