MIAMI (AP)?The Pro Bowl will be played one week before the Super Bowl in 2010 and both games will be staged in Dolphin Stadium, a person directly involved in the decision told The Associated Press on Monday.

 

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the NFL has not announced the move.

 

It?s not a new notion to have the game moved up to take place between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. The NFL has discussed it multiple times in recent years, and commissioner Roger Goodell told the AP last month that having the game precede the Super Bowl would avoid a ?somewhat anticlimactic? ending to the season.

 

The Pro Bowl has been held in Honolulu since 1980, and it?s probable that the game will return to Hawaii after 2010, although not on the permanent basis as has been the case over the last three decades.

 

It won?t be South Florida?s first Pro Bowl: the 1975 game took place in Miami?s Orange Bowl, during a period when the site rotated annually.

 

Barring a schedule change, next season?s Pro Bowl will take place Jan. 31, 2010, with the Super Bowl that year on Feb. 7. The league?s plan is for players on the AFC and NFC championship squads not to take part in the Pro Bowl.

 

Miami was awarded the 2010 Super Bowl three years ago, a record 10th time the game will come to the Dolphins? home city. The notion of adding the Pro Bowl to the lineup in South Florida was first discussed several months ago. It?s not clear when the final decision was made to move the game.

 

Hawaii tourism officials have lobbied in recent months to extend the game?s current contract, which expires after this season?s Pro Bowl, pointing to the fact that it?s been sold out every year since moving to Honolulu and generates about $30.5 million in visitor spending and tax revenues.

 

And earlier this year, Hawaii?s state government released $11 million for lighting and roofing improvements at Aloha Stadium, part of ongoing upgrades designed to refurbish and modernize the aging stadium. State officials have also considered demolishing the facility and building a new stadium.

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Miami is getting all the football events. Aren't we getting the Super Bowl next year? I guess the NFL just likes to pleasant weather down here (well, the super bowl was rainy when it was here )

Miami is getting all the football events. Aren't we getting the Super Bowl next year? )

 

The Pro Bowl will be played one week before the Super Bowl in 2010 and both games will be staged in Dolphin Stadium

very nice. I guess they got tired of Hawaii

 

 

EDIT: Just read they want to get it back to Hawaii after 2010, guess they just don't want to move

The week before the Super Bowl? So that players from the two best teams (theoretically) can't play in it?

NFL already said they would keep the Pro Bowlers from the super bowl teams out

The week before the Super Bowl? So that players from the two best teams (theoretically) can't play in it?

thats what I was thinking, really stupid.

Dont Superbowl players stay out of the ProBowl anyways?

I've been screaming for this for a while now.. love the idea. Can't remember the last time I watched a Pro Bowl (or cared about it) and the lack of football the week before the super bowl blows. Love it.. its gonna be pretty sweet.

Dont Superbowl players stay out of the ProBowl anyways?

No. Peyton definitely played the year he won the Super Bowl.

I've been screaming for this for a while now.. love the idea. Can't remember the last time I watched a Pro Bowl (or cared about it) and the lack of football the week before the super bowl blows. Love it.. its gonna be pretty sweet.

amen...id say its been a good decade since i watched the pro bowl...and this will help to break up the week before the SB and all the times we have to hear about what a miracle ride it was to get to the game and all that other pre-SB bulls***