The NFL will not host a Professional Bowl recreation on the finish of the common season every year.

As a substitute, the league will substitute the occasion with “The Professional Bowl Video games” and can characteristic AFC and NFC gamers showcasing their soccer and non-football expertise in a collection of challenges over the course of a number of days in February, together with a flag soccer recreation. 

The primary iteration of the occasion will happen in Las Vegas in February with the flag soccer recreation happening at Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 5.

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Travis Kelce, #87 of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and AFC, is interviewed on a sideline throughout the 2022 NFL Professional Bowl towards the NFC at Allegiant Stadium on Feb. 06, 2022 in Las Vegas.
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“The Professional Bowl is one thing that we’ve been taking a look at for some time, actually persevering with to evolve,” NFL government Peter O’Reilly instructed The Related Press on Monday. “Popping out of final yr’s recreation, we actually made the choice based mostly on plenty of inside conversations, getting suggestions from GMs and coaches, getting plenty of suggestions from gamers. We predict there’s an actual alternative to do one thing wholly totally different right here and transfer away from the standard sort out soccer recreation. We determined the objective is to have fun 88 of the largest stars within the NFL in a extremely optimistic, enjoyable, but aggressive method.

“The suggestions very instantly from guys who had been within the Professional Bowl just lately was to maintain the assemble of the week, ensure you’re having that multi-day ingredient. It was overwhelmingly optimistic each from gamers in addition to from golf equipment.”

Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions can even have a hand within the programming for the occasion all through the week. The legendary quarterback can even be on the workers for the flag soccer recreation.

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Baltimore Ravens tight finish Mark Andrews, #89, catches a landing throughout the NFL Professional Bowl offered by Verizon on Febr. 6, 2022 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
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The Professional Bowl recreation featured the very best gamers from each conferences going head-to-head in a single last All-Star occasion to place the cap on the season. The Professional Bowl debuted in 1951 and has been performed in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Miami, Phoenix, Orlando and Las Vegas.

The flag soccer recreation facet comes as worries about accidents throughout the recreation rose over the previous few years. Flag soccer can be trying to make an Olympic debut in 2028 in Los Angeles. The NFL has a serious curiosity within the recreation and partnered with the Worldwide Federation of American Soccer to push for it at The World Video games and later the Olympics.

“You faucet into all of the stuff that feels nice about Professional Bowl week, the abilities, the helmets off, the engagement after which culminate that, maintaining the AFC-NFC assemble, in one thing that’s actually vital, which is flag soccer and that chance to have the very best athletes within the NFL on the market taking part in this recreation that’s a lot about the way forward for our sport,” O’Reilly added. “It’s been an evolution, however popping out of Las Vegas final yr, we actually targeted on how will we reinvent and have fun our all-stars even higher.”

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, #15, makes an attempt to go the ball the NFL Professional Bowl offered by Verizon on Feb. 6, 2022 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. 
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Fan voting will nonetheless decide the AFC and NFC rosters.

The Related Press contributed to this report.