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League ends flag football and skills competitions Only original 88 selections will earn Pro Bowl status Players to be honored at Super Bowl week in LA The NFL is ending the Pro Bowl Games after repeated format changes to its annual all-star event. Beginning with the 2026 season, 88 Pro Bowlers will be selected but the NFL no longer plans to stage an AFC-NFC game, a flag-football matchup or an accompanying series of competitions. The players chosen will instead be invited to next year’s Super Bowl site in Los Angeles for an in-person celebration in February. Continue reading...
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League ends flag football and skills competitions Only original 88 selections will earn Pro Bowl status Players to be honored at Super Bowl week in LA The NFL is ending the Pro Bowl Games after repeated format changes to its annual all-star event. Beginning with the 2026 season, 88 Pro Bowlers will be selected but the NFL no longer plans to stage an AFC-NFC game, a flag-football matchup or an accompanying series of competitions. The players chosen will instead be invited to next year’s Super Bowl site in Los Angeles for an in-person celebration in February. Continue reading...
Read this reportIn a news release, the NFL said it plans to "elevate" Pro Bowl selections, with no replacement selections.
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The NFL eliminated its AFC vs. NFC Pro Bowl game, ending skills competitions and flag football after ratings cratered to just 2 million viewers.
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The league will still name 88 all-stars through standard voting and invite them to Los Angeles for a February celebration, but will not select alternates
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AIPROPX has consolidated 5 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “NFL finally calls time on beleaguered Pro Bowl after years of format changes.” The covered outlets are based across 3 regions — US, UK, and Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from ESPN (Aug 26, 2026, 21:34 UTC); the most recent came from The Guardian — Sport (Aug 26, 2026, 23:38 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 8 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “pro bowl”.
6 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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