The NFL has done away with the classic Pro Bowl. Instead of the previously known prestigious show game of the stars, the Sunday before the Super Bowl will be structured differently starting this season.

Munich – The National Football League (NFL) is reinventing itself – at least in part. The star-studded Pro Bowl, which always takes place the week before the Super Bowl, will no longer exist as it does from this season onwards.

This was announced by the NFL in an official statement. According to the statement, this season’s Pro Bowl will include a multi-day “skills event” with a final flag football game.

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This year’s NFL All-Star Game will take place on Sunday, 5 February 2023, at the Allegiant Stadium of the Las Vegas Raiders. The same venue that hosted the Pro Bowl this February.

The league also announced Monday that the “Pro Bowl Games,” as the event will be called this season, will feature “non-football activities” in addition to the aforementioned “skill events” in which the stars will show off their skills.

The Pro Bowl had evolved in recent years more and more into a show game of the best NFL players, but with no real physicality or toughness on display. Everyone involved was more concerned about not getting hurt and more about spectacle than a “normal” football game.

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The NFL said that it had received “an incredible amount of feedback from players, teams and fans on how to improve the Pro Bowl in the future, and this is the result. With the addition of flag football, we want to further connect our players, their families and the fans and give them a day to remember. “

Introducing the 2023 Pro Bowl Games presented by Verizon.

Coming to @Vegas this February. pic.twitter.com/RdJRsMBK5U

– NFL (@NFL) September 26, 2022

This is to continue to serve the existing show aspect on the one hand, and to grow the event overall in breadth on the other, Peter O’Reilly, executive vice president for league events, continued in the release.

So the show goes on and on – just in a different way than before.