11 Facts About Pro Bowl

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Immediately prior to the Pro Bowl, following the 1949 season, the All-America Football Conference, which contributed three teams to the NFL in a partial merger in 1950, held its own all-star game, the Shamrock Bowl.

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The 2010 Pro Bowl was played at Sun Life Stadium, the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins and host site of Super Bowl XLIV, on January 31, the first time ever that the Pro Bowl was held before the championship game .

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In May 2022, Commissioner Roger Goodell questioned the future of the Pro Bowl, arguing that it "doesn't work", and that "another way to celebrate the players" was needed.

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From 2014 to 2016, the Pro Bowl coaches came from the two teams with the best records that lost in the Divisional Playoffs.

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The Pro Bowl is not allowed to end in a tie, unlike preseason and regular season games.

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Early Pro Bowl, contested by the National Football League's Eastern and Western Division stars and played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, featured the same uniforms from the 1950s to mid-1960s; the Eastern team wore scarlet jerseys with white numerals and a white crescent shoulder stripe, white pants with red stripe, red socks, and a plain red helmet.

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Two players with the same number who were elected to the Pro Bowl could wear the same number for that game, which was not always the case in the past.

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8.

Decades, the Pro Bowl has been criticized as a glamor event more than a football game.

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However, starting in 2010, the Pro Bowl was moved from the week after the Super Bowl to the week before it.

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10.

This, among other factors, caused the 2016 Pro Bowl to be more of a game featuring emerging players, with a record of 133 players selected overall, and ended up including rookie quarterback Jameis Winston instead of recognized veterans Tom Brady and Carson Palmer, who were both in the conversation for the 2015 NFL season MVP before losing in their respective conference finals.

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Pro Bowl was not selected in the year after which he set the record for rushing touchdowns in a season and his team made it to the Super Bowl .

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