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The NFL Pro Bowl Is Officially Done

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This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.

The NFL shield and Pro Bowl Games logos.
The NFL shield and Pro Bowl Games logos. Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

The NFL has had a Pro Bowl issue for many years now. The league has implemented multiple changes to make the game safer, but keep it enticing to fans as well. Things haven’t gone well in recent years, and the game reached a new low on Tuesday.

The 2026 edition of the Pro Bowl Games featured a competitive flag football game, too. This time, however, the game was played on a Tuesday, a strange day, considering that it had been played on Sundays.

Different details made it the worst version of the game in years. Besides players like Shedeur Sanders and Joe Flacco making the AFC roster after disappointing seasons, fans noted other questionable factors.

A crowd of 3,100 attended the match at the Moscone Center, a convention center in San Francisco. The atmosphere, the fact that it was an indoor game and the lack of effort on defense made it look like another practice. Fans were upset over it.

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After recording 4.7 million viewers in 2025, the 2026 Pro Bowl Games likely reached a new low. Many fans called for the league to scrap the game.

“I refuse to believe the Pro Bowl has a single viewer. And if you are the single viewer, please change the channel. This flag football shit is so sad and pathetic. Stand for something or fall for everything,” one fan said.

“The pro bowl went from this to being the worst product ever and being played in a convention center,” another fan said.

“Pro Bowl is really flag football in a warehouse on a Tuesday night omg man it’s never been more over for this event,” another fan said.

“Watching whatever the Pro Bowl has become makes me so grateful for how good the Home Run Derby and MLB All-Star game are,” another fan said.

“What have they done to the NFL pro bowl? Random week night, no pads, no effort, some of the worst starters in the game, and zero marketing put into the game. Just let it go already, this thing is on life support with no way to survive,” another fan wrote.

“Unironically more competitive than the current NFL Pro Bowl,” a fan said, referring to the Super Bowl Rock N’ Jock game in 2004.

The NFL hasn’t been able to figure out a way to make the game enticing again. It seems that going back to what worked could be an option, but the league may not be interested in that.

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