The Pro Bowl may be facing massive changes once again, at least NFL boss Roger Goodell is far from happy with the status quo of the event.

Munich – Being called up for the Pro Bowl is a great honour for every NFL player, but the duel of the best from the NFC and AFC is apparently facing major changes.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is bringing them into play. They’ve talked to the players and the NFLPA about “what’s going well and what’s not going well,” Goodell said in a media roundtable on Tuesday.

Roger Goodell: “We need a different way “

“The summary was that the game itself is not working. We need a different way to celebrate our players. The fact that these are the Pro Bowl players, the best players in the league, we want to celebrate with our fans,” he said.

Goodell added: “Some of the competitions around the Pro Bowl are very popular, whether it’s the Quarterback Challenge or one of the other events. So I guess we have to build on that. “

So in the future, the Pro Bowl could only consist of different challenges for the individual positions, because the risk of injury there is incomparably lower than in a normal football game.

Games could then only take place virtually, as there have already been duels between NFL stars and celebrities in “Madden NFL” in the past.