Comments on: Pro Bowl Changes Affect Super Bowl XLV Planners http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2009/11/10/pro-bowl-changes-affect-super-bowl-xlv-planners/ FrontBurner® has been called the best blog in Dallas (repeatedly), a snarky celebration of ignorance, and a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:59:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jason Heid http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2009/11/10/pro-bowl-changes-affect-super-bowl-xlv-planners/comment-page-1/#comment-72821 Jason Heid Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:48:58 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=28156#comment-72821 Jackson: It was Frank Supovitz who cited the Pro Bowl change as a new challenge, not me. I'd guess that having the final preparation for the much bigger, much more important game overlap with pulling off the smaller event makes a big difference. In previous years, with the Pro Bowl largely out of the spotlight because it's so anticlimactic, I'll bet they've hardly had to think about Hawaii until the Super Bowl is ready to go or even over. As for your second point, I believe you misunderstood. The two games will be in the same stadium in 2010, but not so when the Super Bowl is in North Texas, in 2011. Jackson: It was Frank Supovitz who cited the Pro Bowl change as a new challenge, not me. I’d guess that having the final preparation for the much bigger, much more important game overlap with pulling off the smaller event makes a big difference. In previous years, with the Pro Bowl largely out of the spotlight because it’s so anticlimactic, I’ll bet they’ve hardly had to think about Hawaii until the Super Bowl is ready to go or even over.

As for your second point, I believe you misunderstood. The two games will be in the same stadium in 2010, but not so when the Super Bowl is in North Texas, in 2011.

]]> By: Jackson http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2009/11/10/pro-bowl-changes-affect-super-bowl-xlv-planners/comment-page-1/#comment-72812 Jackson Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:38 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=28156#comment-72812 Jason writes that "the NFL’s experiment of changing the timing of the Pro Bowl will throw some additional hurdles into the process." He cites these additional hurdles: "The NFL has to manage the set up and execution of two major events, thousands of miles apart and with a big time zone difference." Those are the same annual hurdles whether the game is a week before or a week after the Super Bowl. Also, it's hard to see how this "doesn't seem nearly the challenge of 2011," when the two games will be in the same stadium. After all, the hurdles of geography and time zone difference won't exist, so it should be easier. Jason writes that “the NFL’s experiment of changing the timing of the Pro Bowl will throw some additional hurdles into the process.” He cites these additional hurdles: “The NFL has to manage the set up and execution of two major events, thousands of miles apart and with a big time zone difference.”

Those are the same annual hurdles whether the game is a week before or a week after the Super Bowl. Also, it’s hard to see how this “doesn’t seem nearly the challenge of 2011,” when the two games will be in the same stadium. After all, the hurdles of geography and time zone difference won’t exist, so it should be easier.

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