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The NFL is replacing the Pro Bowl with weeklong skills competitions and a flag football game, the league announced Monday. The new event will replace the full-contact showcase started in 1951. It will be renamed "The Pro Bowl Games" and will feature AFC and NFC players showcasing their football and non-football skills in challenges over several days. The 2023 Games will be held in Las Vegas, and the flag football game at Allegiant Stadium is Feb. 5. Peyton Manning and his Omaha Productions company will help shape programming and promote the event's content throughout the week. Manning, a 14-time Pro Bowl pick during his Hall of Fame career, will provide his perspective and will also be a part of the coaching staff for flag game. "The Pro Bowl is something that we've been looking at for a while, really continuing to evolve," NFL executive Peter O'Reilly told The Associated Press. "Coming out of last year's game, we really made the decision based on a lot of internal conversations, getting feedback from GMs and coaches, getting a lot of feedback from players. We think there's a real opportunity to do something wholly different here and move away from the traditional tackle football game. We decided the goal is to celebrate 88 of the biggest stars in the NFL in a really positive, fun, yet competitive way. |
So it begins.
What happened to Hawaii?? I would have thought the players loved that. I can see why playing a pro bowl in Orlando stinks
The only time I remember someone getting injured during one of those was a beach flag football game for rookies and Robert Edwards of the Pats totally destroyed his knee.
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I thought the Pro Bowl WAS a flag football game!
About time. This game was such a joke.
So it begins.
On record ... tackle to flag ... by the end of the century.
That's commitment!
None of us will be around for it so ... sounds good! lol
So it begins.
I recalled a post from a few months back about the NFL supporting flag football as an Olympic sport.
When I searched the thread, I noticed you posted it with a quote from Troy Vincent.
But note the phrase "not professional football" in the quote. I read Vincent as promoting flag as an inclusive popular sport but not as acknowledging it as a replacement for professional tackle football.
One can legitimately wonder whether the sport can in fact proceed on those two tracks.
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And in any case, the moral issue with football really isn't so much at the pro-level as it is with the high-school level and under. Grown men who understand the risks of the game should be allowed to risk their bodies playing it. It's kids who can't really conceive of (much less act on) their best interests who we have to worry about.
Next thing you know, the skills damn competitions will replace the actual games.
As for flag football, you have to be shitting me.
Today the NFL announced the Pro Bowl Games are now sponsored by Madden NFL football. No actual physical activity will be performed by the players voted into the Pro Bowl Games.
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What adjustment, other than something with minimal physical contact like this change to flag football, would work? I think we know by now that NFL players aren't going to put forth any real physical effort in an all-star game. And if it's going to be flag football (or any other significantly altered form of regular football), why would the college players bother? They want to spend their time playing real football, showcasing themselves for NFL front offices.
And now everyone’s upset they are doing it.
I think nfl front offices would be more impressed, and college guys (and their advisers) would know they'd be more impressed, with real football between college guys, all of whom are trying like hell to impress, than backyard touch against nfl'ers who are there for Vegas hotel suites.