Pro Bowl Games hit a record low 1.9 million viewers

[Apprentice]

Crazy how the most popular US sport has the least popular All Star Game

They fukked up moving it from the end of the season to the break between the conference championships and the Super Bowl; they got greedy

I grew up seeing Ty Law, Tom Brady, Ray Lewis and Peyton in the pro bowl with championships still having something to prove in the pro bowl, now u see Tyler Huntley and Rookie Shedeur


Hit different

 

[King Poetic]

Puppy Bowl about to do better numbers again

 

[Adebisi_Said]

They may already be dead, frankly. This year, the annual all-star event, which became a flag-football game in recent years, hit an all-time low of 1.9 million viewers.

That’s a 60-percent drop from 2025, when an average audience of 4.7 million tuned in. And it’s nearly 70 percent below the 6.2 million who watched in the first year of the flag-football experiment.

Of course, the move from Sunday to Tuesday night likely contributed to the drop. Which opens the door to the question of whether someone decided to move the Pro Bowl Games in order to kill the Pro Bowl Games.

And while 1.9 million remains an impressive number in an age of ongoing splintering of live TV audiences, it’s an embarrassingly low for anything to which Big Shield is attached. Which raises the question of whether the Pro Bowl Games will become permanenty detached from pro football.

Pro Bowl Games hit a record low 1.9 million viewers

Pull the plug on the Pro Bowl games, please.

www.nbcsports.com

What were the ratings for Celtics/Mavs?

 

[mastermind]

They fukked up moving it from the end of the season to the break between the conference championships and the Super Bowl; they got greedy

I grew up seeing Ty Law, Tom Brady, Ray Lewis and Peyton in the pro bowl with championships still having something to prove in the pro bowl, now u see Tyler Huntley and Rookie Shedeur


Hit different

No one is trying to get hurt on an exhibition game.

That Sean Taylor hit probably ended the game.

 

[Apprentice]

No one is trying to get hurt on an exhibition game.

That Sean Taylor hit probably ended the game.

Lol no the Sean Taylor hit did not end the game, they played many competitive years after that

It was really Aaron Rodgers and other salty players that didn’t make the SB hot dogging the game that killed it

 

[FlimFlam]

Lol no the Sean Taylor hit did not end the game, they played many competitive years after that

It was really Aaron Rodgers and other salty players that didn’t make the SB hot dogging the game that killed it

What do you mean by hot dogging

What happened

 

[FlimFlam]

It can be logically accepted that the risk of injury isn't worth effort in the pro bowl, but not the nba all star game?

Now from a business standpoint nba's all star weekend is surely a much larger part of of the Nba's asset profile than the pro bowl is for the nfl... so there that go

 

[madness]

Low ratings for a non-competitive game. Yet NFL still fans don’t cry that players “ruined the all-star game” like p*ssy ass NBA fans do

 

[FlyBoy718]

NOBODY WANTS TO WATCH
THESE DUDES PLAY FLAG FOOTBALL.

DOING IT IN HAWAII AFTER
THE SB GAVE PPL ONE
LAST CHANCE TO SEE THEIR
FAVORITE PLAYERS


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Agreed. Plus I feel less players dropped out because they would bring their families for what was essentially a "Hawaiian vacation" paid for by the NFL. Therefore, I wouldn't be subjected to the likes of Joe Flacco

 

[MikelArteta]

Either cancel the Pro Bowl outright or...

1) Move the game back to Hawaii and Aloha Stadium.

2) Move the game to after the season.

Canceling it is probably the best decision.

Aloha is currently being demolished

 

[Jerz-2]

Bring back "Superstars"!

 

[concise]

Agreed. Plus I feel less players dropped out because they would bring their families for what was essentially a "Hawaiian vacation" paid for by the NFL. Therefore, I wouldn't be subjected to the likes of Joe Flacco

League probably moved it away from Hawaii because they were tired of paying for those flights.

 

[FTBS]

Pro Bowl used to be a coronation of sorts and one last chance to see your favorite players. Now its rock n jock filler.

I get a lot of stuff they do even if I dont agree with it (longer season and post season, Thursdays). I understand its a business and they are about squeezing every last drop. I dont see how moving pro bowl to week before the SB helps in anyway. You are literally having an all star game that nobody wants to play in because if you are it means you aren't in the SB. That's the most ass backwards thing ever. That's when the real decline into what we know now started. And it was totally unnecessary.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

They’re treating the pro bowl games like
PBA bowling and cornhole tournaments and shyt

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

5.79 million viewers for NFL Pro Bowl this year.