Circus of the NFL Stars: if they were better at football they wouldn't be in this mess!

So it seems NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is unhappy with the annual spectacle/exhibition game played in Hawaii known as the Pro Bowl, and said before the Super Bowl last week that he may do away with the game itself, if the quality is so poor like this last one. And some football fans have been saying for years that it’d be more entertaining to see some sort of skills competition rather than a 68-65 football score-fest.

But we say take it one step further, and make it not just a skills competition, but bring back an 80s-staple of network TV that was unceremoniously taken off the airwaves long before its time. I’d love to see a “Circus of the NFL Stars!”

Who wouldn’t? Remember seeing your favorite prime-time stars flying on trapezes and walking across the tight rope? That was awesome! So do it with NFL players now! They’re highly skilled athletes, they shouldn’t need nearly as much time to learn how to swing on a trapeze as “Murphy Brown’s” Joe Regalbuto did, right?

I know I’d love to see Ben Roethlisberger in a lion cage with just a chair and a whip! See Maurice Jones-Drew dressed up as a clown or Tim Tebow ride an elephant.

New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is used to being a circus ring master, might as well give him tails and a top hat, make it official. And take your pick of any of a number of All-Pro wide receivers to be trapeze artists.

You can keep it in Hawaii if you want, or to give it a more real circus feel, move it around the country by train every week!

This idea is a gold mine! It can’t miss! It has “winner” written all over it!

Just like Tom Brady used to.

You are now informed. Go and do likewise.