Pro Bowl Scheduled Before Super Bowl Again. Online sports betting on the NFL Pro Bowl will see the game taking place a week before the Super Bowl again next season. The game will return to Hawaii next offshore sports betting season but the NFL has decided that keeping it a week before the Super Bowl is the way to go.
Online sports betting interest in the ProBowl earlier this year was higher but there were some drawbacks. Since the game is played before the Super Bowl, the two teams in the big game do not have any of their players in the Pro Bowl. It meant big stars like Peyton Manning and Drew Brees couldn’t play in the ProBowl or impact the online sports betting odds. The game was still exciting in online sports betting and the publicity with the game being held in the same city as the Super Bowl was high. How that will work this time around with the game going back to Hawaii is up for offshore sports betting debate.
The NFL announced the date for the Pro Bowl on Tuesday as online sports betting indicated. Playing the game at Aloha Stadium should prove popular with the players but playing it on January 30th, a week before Super Bowl XLV may not work well. The NFL liked the ProBowl being played before the Super Bowl this past time though and they are going to try it again. “Playing the Pro Bowl before the Super Bowl generated more excitement and interest in the event and also kicked off Super Bowl week in an innovative new way,” said NFL senior vice president of events Frank Supovitz in a statement released by the league. “We are pleased to return to the state of Hawaii, which has embraced the Pro Bowl for 30 years.”
The Pro Bowl will be played at Aloha Stadium for the next two online sports betting seasons with future plans still up in the air. Next year’s game will mark another offshore sports betting change, since this time the game will be played in Hawaii the week before the Super Bowl. The offshore sports betting NFL question will be whether or not the NFL makes the Super Bowl teams have their players show up at the game as they did this past time. With the Pro Bowl at the Super Bowl site it was easy to get the players to the game. It won’t be so easy this time as online sports betting notes, with the game in Hawaii and the Super Bowl in Dallas.