HI Loses Pro Bowl, Has Paradise to Fall Back on

The NFL is making wholesale changes to the Pro Bowl in 2010. Reportedly, the game will move to a week before the Super Bowl and will be played in the same city as the title game, that being Miami in ‘10. No word on whether or not this will make anyone care about the game. I suspect it won’t. Hawaii, however, doesn’t wanna let go of its one connection (ed. note: not named “Colt Brennan”) to the NFL:↵↵⇥Hawaii tourism officials have lobbied in recent months to extend the game’s current contract, which expires after this season’s Pro Bowl, pointing to the fact that it’s been sold out every year since moving to Honolulu and generates about $30.5 million in visitor spending and tax revenues.↵↵Oh heavens, how ever will the Hawaiian people lure mainlanders to their crystal clear waters, white sand beaches and all around perfect paradise without some half-assed exhibition football contest? According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, they’ll fill this massive tourist void by hosting international soccer matches, the only sporting contest that Americans probably care less about than the Pro Bowl. But maybe Hawaiians are into soccer. Really, I have no idea. Everything I know about the islands I learned from

. (Fact: The most important thing to Hawaiians is deciding which mesh trucker hat to wear that day.)↵↵As for the proposed changes, The Sporting Blog would like to fully endorse them, although they still don’t address the real issue here: Why are they still playing this game at all?↵

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