After three months of mounting speculation, the future of the Pro Bowl could be moving toward a decision when NFL owners meet today in Atlanta.

A "wide range of issues is to be discussed, including the Pro Bowl," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said of the one-day meeting in an email to the Star-Advertiser.

The date reserved for the game is Jan. 27, 2013, a week before Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, which is a contender with Hawaii for the game, if it is played.

Asked if the question was whether to play the game in 2013 or more a matter of where to play it, McCarthy said, "both."

The annual all-star game was not on the agenda when the owners met in March in Palm Beach, Fla., and there has been no announcement whether a game will even be played in 2013.

Several reports last month said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has considered suspending the game in 2013.

Since 1980, Hawaii has hosted the game every year but one, 2010, when it was played in Miami in tandem with the Super Bowl. Hawaii’s contract with the NFL expired after the 2012 game. Retaining the game had been in doubt even before the players’ lackadaisical performance came under fire in the Jan. 29 game, a 59-41 NFC victory that drew loud and frequent boos.

Since then, McCarthy said, "We have talked to the union and players on a range of questions about the future of the Pro Bowl. We have not made any decisions yet."

The Hawaii Tourism Authority has made a renewal proposal to the NFL, terms of which have not been announced. The HTA has been paying the NFL $4 million a year plus $152,000 in Aloha Stadium operating costs to hold the game here.

The HTA said in March that its research showed 18,873 event visitors for the 2012 game. The game attracted 12.5 million television viewers, 1.5 million more than the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.