The Pro Bowl is on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla. It will be televised by ESPN.

I just thought I’d throw that out there so at least you were aware of it in case you wanted to tune in, which I doubt you do.

The Pro Bowl is, as has been stated thousands of times here and elsewhere, the worst of the major pro sports all-star games. And it’s not even close.

But don’t blame the NFL. There is no real solution, other than to abolish the thing, which I don’t think the league wants to do. There is too much money involved. Follow the trail of money and it will lead you to the answer of just about everything in life.

Football is way too violent of a sport to hold an all-star game. If players went full-go, some would get injured, perhaps to the point that they would not be ready for the start of training camp next season, or worse.

So it ends up being almost a touch football game. Who wants to watch touch football? That’s for back-yard summer barbecues, not national TV.

But it’s a whole heckuva lot safer, so until further notice, that’s the way the game will be played.

There was a time, though, when the Pro Bowl was played like any other game, with hard hitting, tackling and sometimes even more.

Longtime Browns fans will remember the 1965 Pro Bowl, which was played after the 1964 season. Just a week before, the Browns had crushed the Baltimore Colts 27-0 in the NFL Championship Game as Frank Ryan threw three touchdown passes to wide receiver Gary Collins.

Colts Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Gino Marchetti thought the Browns had run up the score in the title game, so, while playing for the Western Conference All-Stars in the Pro Bowl, he leveled Ryan, the East quarterback, after a throw and injured him.

Ryan still had three good seasons after that, but he was never really the same. He wasn’t quite as good as he should have been, would have been.

Can you imagine someone doing that to Tom Brady now?

There would be a riot. And Bill Belichick would be leading it.