The NFL has two more months to whittle down a choice of sites for the 2017 Pro Bowl following a deadline extension with the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

Both parties now have until May 31 to opt out of the contract after the announcement Thursday, which was to have been the deadline under the terms of a 2014 contract that called for the 2016 and ’17 games to be played at Aloha Stadium.

In a joint statement the NFL and HTA said, “This extension allows discussions to continue while both parties consider all possible options for 2017.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy declined to say which cities were still under consideration but said, “we are evaluating a number of sites.”

Houston and Sydney, Australia, are said to have made proposals.

In addition McCarthy said, “We are still evaluating everything with the Pro Bowl.”

Commissioner Roger Goodell has called for overhauling the league’s annual all-star game after expressing “disappointment” in the level of play in the January game. “If it’s not quality, if it is not a real competition that we can be proud of, we have to do something different,” Goodell told reporters at his state-of-the-league press conference preceding the Super Bowl, where he said he was “open to new ideas.”

The decision on where the 2017 game will be played is up to Goodell and is “not a voting matter” for the league’s owners, McCarthy said.

The HTA said in January that it wanted the 2017 game here.

The HTA said the push back to a May 31 announcement would not hurt efforts to market the game, should it remain here. “Our marketing efforts are ongoing. We can pull the trigger at anytime.,” said Leslie Dance, HTA vice president of marketing and product development.

Dance said, “We’re also talking with them about ways to advance the game. We always want to make changes that are more beneficial to both of our missions.”

Dance said there has been no escalation in the original agreement that calls for HTA to pay the NFL $5 million plus $152,250 in operational expenses for 2017, if the game is played here.

The Pro Bowl is the HTA’s most subsidized event and has an $26.2 million impact, having drawn “15,000-plus visitors,” the HTA said.