Is the NFL Pro Bowl Moving to Brazil?
Next year’s game will be played in Honolulu, but the annual all-star matchup may soon be headed to foreign shores.
The Associated Press is reporting that the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl might be played in Brazil.
That’s right, Brazil. As in South America. Turns out that folks down south are just as interested in football as futbol.
While next year’s Pro Bowl will be played at the rusty, inadequate, crumbling Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, the NFL is looking elsewhere for future games, in no small part because of declining interest in the game.
Aloha Stadium.
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As Fox Sports says, “Once the highest-rated all-star game held by the four major U.S. sports leagues, the Pro Bowl has seen its viewership decline for four consecutive years.”
The state of Hawaii actually pays the NFL several million dollars a year to host the Pro Bowl, arguing that it’s a boon to the local visitor industry.
But the NFL has not been crazy about continuing the game in Honolulu. This year, for example, the Pro Bowl was held in in Glendale, Ariz., the site for Super Bowl XLIX.
