The NFL and officials in Hawaii have had a long relationship centered on the Pro Bowl, but that relationship came to an end when the league announced that the new home of the Pro Bowl is Orlando.
If the relationship with Hawaii is to be revived, it may involve preseason games.
Leslie Dance, the Hawaii Tourism Authority’s vice president of marketing and product development, told the Associated Press that the agency has thought about hosting a preseason game. Mufi Hannemann, the president of the Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association, said he wishes Hawaii would have come up with a package for the NFL that included both keeping the Pro Bowl and regularly hosting preseason games.
The NFL has hosted preseason games all over the world, but in recent years the league has shied away from that, and it would probably be a tough sell to get teams to disrupt their training camp schedules to take on the travel involved with a preseason game in Hawaii. It sounds like a long shot that any NFL game will be played in Hawaii any time soon.
