The Facts:
There will be a Pro Bowl in 2013, after all. And it's going to be in a familiar home. The league and the NFL Players Association announced Wednesday that the game will be held on Sunday, Jan. 27 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Reported by NFL.com
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
The joint news release answers a few questions. First, we know that the game will actually be played. There were serious discussions about canceling the game after the quality of play deteriorated in recent years. It sounds like the players wanted to keep the game afloat. The television networks likely agreed. The game gets great ratings. Second, the game will not be played in New Orleans. (It would have possibly conflicted with Mardi Gras, which would have been a lot of fun for us to cover.) The league held the Pro Bowl in South Florida one week before the Super Bowl in 2010, breaking a 29-year streak of games in Hawaii. It has been in Hawaii the last two years again. The statement does not answer the question we are most curious about: How are the league and the players going to improve the game? That might be because there is no answer.
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