New Pro Bowl festivities announced, including dodgeball and long-drive competitions

The Nationwide Soccer League has introduced its Professional Bowl festivities in Las Vegas that can exchange the annual sport subsequent February.

There are 10 whole occasions for the Professional Bowl, with 5 on Feb. 2 and the opposite 5 three days later, one week earlier than Tremendous Bowl LVII in Glendale, Ariz.

Day one will encompass each a precision passing competitors in addition to a finest catch contest, however that is hardly the place the enjoyable begins.

There additionally will likely be a dodgeball event — spherical one would be the AFC offense towards its protection, in addition to the NFC’s offensive and defensive gamers going at it. The winners will face off within the finals. 4 gamers from every convention may also seize their golf golf equipment for a long-drive competitors. 

There additionally will likely be a “Lightning Spherical” consisting of three contests in it alone. The primary is a water-balloon toss, adopted by catching punts from a JUGS machine. The ultimate a part of the problem is named the “Thrill of the Spill,” the place gamers from every convention will goal at targets hooked up to a bucket hanging above the opposing convention’s coach – the primary crew to dump the bucket on the opposite coach wins.

AFC quarterback Patrick Mahomes throws through the NFL Professional Bowl at Tenting World Stadium in Orlando on Sunday, January 27, 2019. 
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Apart from 7-on-7 flag soccer video games on Sunday, the most effective catch contest will end up on Sunday. There are additionally two separate abilities competitions, much like the abilities contest throughout NBA All-Star Weekend, which is able to embody a tire runs, blocking sleds, and different drill-like occasions. The conferences punters and lengthy snappers may also full in a sport of “Kick Tac Toe.”

The NFL introduced in September that it was putting off a Professional Bowl sport, and as a substitute transferring onto extra backyard-like occasions.

“The Professional Bowl is one thing that we’ve been for some time, actually persevering with to evolve,” NFL govt Peter O’Reilly advised The Related Press on the time “Popping out of final yr’s sport, we actually made the choice primarily based on quite a lot of inner conversations, getting suggestions from GMs and coaches, getting quite a lot 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 normal sort out soccer sport. We determined the objective is to have fun 88 of the largest stars within the NFL in a very constructive, enjoyable, but aggressive means.

“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 component. It was overwhelmingly constructive each from gamers in addition to from golf equipment.”

Justin Jefferson #18 of the Minnesota Vikings and NFC reacts within the first quarter of the 2022 NFL Professional Bowl towards the AFC at Allegiant Stadium on February 06, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 
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The Professional Bowl sport featured the most effective gamers from each conferences going head-to-head in a single ultimate 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.

Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.