The 2024 Pro Bowl is underway in Orlando, Florida. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports)
The 2024 NFL Pro Bowl Games are here. Well, actually, they were here Thursday too. But the festivities all build up to Sunday, so here’s a refresher on the new way the NFL celebrates its stars that didn’t make the Super Bowl.
We could forgive you for not hearing the league changed its much-criticized All-Star Game last year, turning it from a lightly played tackle football game to a lightly played flag football game plus a bunch of various skill contests.
Those changes returned to the Pro Bowl Games in 2024 in Orlando. Keep reading for everything you need to know about the event.
What are the 2024 Pro Bowl Games rules?
The current Pro Bowl Games format has the competition split between two days: Thursday, which is focused on various skill challenges, and Sunday, which features the actual flag football game as well as more skills challenges.
The Thursday competition has six different events: precision passing, best catch, high stakes (catching a bunch of punts), dodgeball, kick tac toe, and closest to the pin (literally just golf). Sunday will have kick tac toe, move the chains, gridiron gauntlet (obstacle course relay race), Madden head-to-head, tug-of-war and, finally the game.
Each of the skill events will award three points toward a team’s overall score. Those scores will combine with those of the flag football game to determine who has won this thing.
The flag football game will consist of four 12-minute quarters played on a 50-yard field with 10-yard end zones. Touchdowns are still worth six points, but teams can only get an extra point by scoring from the five-yard line. They can go for two from the 10-yard line.
What happened Thursday at the Pro Bowl Games?
The NFC came out of Thursday with a 12-6 game, taking a win in precision passing, closest to the pin, snap shots and a draw in dodgeball. The jury is still out on the best catch competition, as that one will be determined by…
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Publish date : 2024-02-03 23:18:41
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