All sports have an all-star game for their top athletes to compete against one another to determine which league(s) is better that particular year. Sports people love these types of games. In baseball and basketball the all-star game is more playful and these athletes have a lesser chance to get a major injury that could have an impact on the rest of their careers. But, in the National Football League it's a little different story.
The Pro Bowl is the name of footballs all-star game and is just like the other sports comes every year around the same time and has its top athletes compete. The only difference is that it's a contact sport. It's physical and these players risk their health every time they step on the field. These players get paid the big bucks for how the perform on the field.
With this being said most feel that the Pro Bowl should be changed for not only the players but also for owners who invest millions in these players. The Pro Bowl is just like any other regular season game but the winners take home $40,000 dollars and the losers get $20,000. So these players give it their all to win. All it takes is one big hit and a player could have a season or career ending injury. Each year more and more of the big name athletes in the NFL have been missing the Pro Bowl because of the thought of an injury or just because of the mental and physical beating these athletes take after 16 regular season games and if the team makes the playoffs which could be another 4 games possibly.
Being that the NFL is one of the best sports in all of sports played and watched, why should we risk hurting our top performing athletes? So the question we should ask ourselves is, should the Pro Bowl continue or should it be changed somehow to make it safer for these athletes?
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