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NFL ending Pro Bowl game. Player honors will remain, but alternates no longer acknowledged
The NFL held a flag-football competition at the Pro Bowl each of the last four years. Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images
ATLANTA — Since 1951 the NFL has conducted some version of the Pro Bowl. The all-star competition has crossed the country and, particularly in the past decade-plus, gone through several different iterations, including turning the game itself into a series of games.
Now, The Athletic has learned, the Pro Bowl is being eliminated.
On Wednesday, league executives presented to team owners the future of the Pro Bowl, which will no longer have a standalone game — be it tackle or flag football — or games. After surveying players over the years, the NFL will now make the Pro Bowl effectively an individual performance award. Eighty-eight players will receive the Pro Bowl honor with no alternates, corralling a key aspect of the all-star event that had gotten out of whack in recent years.
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NFL ditches the Pro Bowl
Jonathan Jones of The Athletic reports that the NFL has pulled the plug on the event, which has morphed in recent years from a game of two-hand-touch in full pads to a variety of non-football events capped by a game of flag football.
Instead, the league will name a Pro Bowl team — consisting of 88 players — and have no Pro Bowl game or other competitive events.
“All-star games, I think, for all leagues have been fraught for a long time, and they haven’t necessarily represented the very best premium of that sport for those players,” NFL executive V.P. Peter O’Reilly told Jones. “I think all leagues have struggled with that. We made the switch four years ago from the ‘tackle’ Pro Bowl to the flag game, and that was more strategic for us. In many ways, we saw a decrease in the replacement players.
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