{"id":77942,"date":"2026-08-26T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/nfl-finally-calls-time-on-beleaguered-pro-bowl-after-years-of-format-changes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:56:00","slug":"nfl-finally-calls-time-on-beleaguered-pro-bowl-after-years-of-format-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/nfl-finally-calls-time-on-beleaguered-pro-bowl-after-years-of-format-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL finally calls time on beleaguered Pro Bowl after years of format changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>League ends flag football and skills competitions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Only original 88 selections will earn Pro Bowl status<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Players to be honored at Super Bowl week in LA<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NFL is ending the Pro Bowl Games after repeated format changes to its annual all-star event.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning \u2060with the 2026 season, 88 Pro Bowlers will be selected but the NFL no longer plans to stage an \u2060AFC-NFC game, a \u2060flag-football matchup \u200bor an accompanying series of competitions. The players chosen will instead be invited to next year\u2019s Super Bowl site in \u2060Los Angeles for an in-person celebration in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/26\/nfl-pro-bowl-games-scrapped-all-star-event\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2060with the 2026 season, 88 Pro Bowlers will be selected but &#8230; <a title=\"NFL finally calls time on beleaguered Pro Bowl after years of format changes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/nfl-finally-calls-time-on-beleaguered-pro-bowl-after-years-of-format-changes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NFL finally calls time on beleaguered Pro Bowl after years of format changes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}