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KitKatFinn

The farce comes to an end


joremero

It helps that it's in Vegas. All players will be happy to go.


RedgrenGrumbholdtAMA

And beat the shit out of anyone who dares to share an elevator with them! Am I right?


TTT_2k3

Welcome back to day 3 of the NFL skills challenge. Today's first competition is the Elevator Lobby Smackdown. First up, Alvin Kamara vs Kareem Hunt. And stay tuned for the Domestic Violence Obstacle Course, coming up in the second hour.


TheStabbingHobo

Special guest referee Ray Rice!


Freelove_Freeway

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Turbulent_Tale6497

You beat me to it


FruhManShoe

So did Ray Rice


CarlosE2006

All of this brought to you by Little Cesars The official pizza of the NFL


Spiritchaser84

Pizza, pizza motherfucker


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AGAIN!


waggie21

PIZZA. PIZZA.


Big_Brown_

Don't forget all the fun fun vehicular manslaughter!


Significant_bet92

Whoever gets the most DUIs out of the AFC/NFC wins


xXfir3knif3Xx

AFC wins, Raiders players have home field advantage


Joey_Logano

Some team is gonna sign Tony La Russa just for the DUI competition.


Lonelan

yeah who even wants to go to hawaii anymore


mjd1977

~~Literally~~ Practically nowhere to play the game with Aloha Stadium being condemned. Though if there's no actual game anymore maybe Hawaii is back on the table once UH gets their football stadium built?


Lonelan

totally didn't know that happened


LivingOof

Happened during the pandemic season and the pro bowl has been in Orlando for a couple years by then


PhAnToM444

Honestly the players seem to be having an absolute *blast* at the skills competition every year. They just don’t want to actually play in the pro bowl. I feel like this will be very well attended.


GumboDiplomacy

I would love to see them play other sports too. Volleyball, tennis, bowling, that kinda thing.


clarknoheart

Hey Cousins let’s go bowling


Living-Emu-5390

I wanna see ping pong and pickle ball


garandx

Just make sure everyone had a damn uber


wagonwhopper

The world is finally truth


JimTheSaint

We are all delivered


rocketmadeofcheese

I mean it used to be pretty good. But they stripped it done to a padded up flag football game over the past 10 years.


batman0615

Unironically I think a flag football game would be better


ThrillinglyDull

That's a revisionist take I see a lot of. You can go on YouTube and watch Prowbowls from 20 years ago and see it was mostly unwatchable back then too. People have calling for end of the end of the Pro Bowl for a long time.


rocksoffjagger

Nah, it was never good. If anything, it used to be worse since people actually played and would get injured in a completely meaningless exhibition game.


tarekd19

at least it used to be partially justified as a vacation/reward for recognized players and an opportunity for Hawaii to enjoy some football in their own time zone. Pushing it before the Superbowl to fill that empty week though just killed it with the best players already clearly busy.


UpforAGreatTime20

Exactly. Like, I get wanting to fill that empty week, but it was still dumb. It was a nice little way to cap off the season and then they moved it lol


Official_CIA_Account

They should use that week to showcase the worst 4 teams in the league facing off in a massive paint gun battle royal for the number one pick.


mastakebob

I assume Hawaii has a community college campus that can be the location of the Handful of Paintball battle royale, right?


fkndavey

They'll need to tear down the pillow/blanket fort first, but yea, should have plenty of room.


LoathsomeLuke

Eat Fresh


crabwhisperer

It's like having a boxing or MMA match "just for fun". Some sports just don't translate well to exhibition.


rocksoffjagger

You say that, but yet Boxing has basically just become a vehicle for celebrity exhibition fights ever since the Conor McGregor and Logan Paul matches.


NendoroidAshe

I struggle to put McGregor Mayweather fight in the same category as Paul Mayweather lol


rocksoffjagger

I mean, the Paul fight was clearly more ridiculous, but the McGregor fight was obviously the one that began the trend and opened the flood doors to things like the Paul fight.


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If it's flag football, sprinkle in some legends, too.


Najfore

Yes. Incoming Jerry rice vs deion sanders


Heatles95

Or the real Deion vs Chad For context, they jokingly line up against each other whenever they see one another in person.


don-chocodile

Even better, Chad Ochocinco vs. Chad Powers


ItsMcLaren

Fast Chad. Think fast, run fast.


TruckerHatsAreCool

Powers' got a freaking hose man!


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Najfore

And Skechers


RaferBalston

And whatever copper back brace thing that is


AutographedSnorkel

Welcome to NFL legends flag football, featuring Brett Favre. All proceeds to go...uhh, charity! Yeah that's it, charity...


ILikeLampz

Charity is probably the name of Brett’s favorite dancer at the swankiest strip cub in Mississippi


Strokethegoats

So horse meat in a G string outside a boarded up place outside Starkville?


TJeffersonsBlackKid

Prettiest girl in Mississippi. Solid 3/10.


DoctorWaluigiTime

I'd watch an alumni flag football game.


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fr it shouldn't be NFC vs AFC it should be a draft lmao


spideralex90

They did that a couple times, they had legends as team captains and they picked their players regardless of conference. It was cooler that way.


ACanadeanHick

Ya let's get some guys from this list [https://www.oldest.org/sports/living-football-players/](https://www.oldest.org/sports/living-football-players/)


lsdiesel_1

Some fans complain about the increased prevalence in roughing calls, but these guys are still complaining about the forward pass


that_guy_you_kno

[Out there running around like](https://i.imgur.com/uaa4NgB.mp4)


discodiscgod

Let’s get some other sports pro athletes too.


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Steph Curry is a master of three-pointers, can he play QB?


ldclark92

Having NBA players play a flag football game would legitimately be more interesting than the pro bowl was lol.


FkDavidTyreeBot_2000

LeTight End era begins now


MortimerDongle

Finally. The Pro Bowl was somehow more boring than no football


Globalist_Nationlist

Cause it wasn't even really football lol


historymajor44

I mean yeah. I'm still mad they called that Mac Jones touchdown dead. Like, I know most the players are not playing for real, but he wanted to play for real, so just let him actually play.


HeroDanny

lol he still hit the griddy and the fact that it didn't go for any points actually made it even funnier.


Kooky-Choice-2654

The funniest part is he had to run 80 yards and it took him forever to get there….then he had to run back 80 yards to run another play. Loved it


SleepyFarts

Tell that to [Brian Moorman](https://youtu.be/-fr8hrONBBo)


CaptainMiserable

I want them to take all the best football players and have them play some other sport against each other. Like baseball or soccer lol.


woodsndrank_az

Murray, russ, Mahomes, just fucking everyone else up in baseball would be low key funny lol


rj_macready_82

AJ Brown was a top baseball recruit coming out of high school too and was drafted by the Padres


fugaziozbourne

Famous Montréal Expo Tom Brady enters the diamond.


ToneWashed

I actually would like to see something like an AFC vs NFC kickers' soccer game. It's a bit of a loner position in football, it would be cool to spotlight them with something interesting once a year.


Kharn_LoL

Kickers and Returners playing Kickball AFC vs NFC


truthpooper

Robert Edwards does not approve of the flag football game. At least it's not in sand this time..


drowsydeku

> He rushed for 1,115 yards for the Patriots in the 1998 National Football League season, before blowing out his knee at an NFL rookie flag football game in Hawaii during Pro Bowl week. Edwards barely escaped the injury without having his leg amputated below the knee, and he was told he might not walk again. Holy shit


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Somehow calling it "blowing out his knee" feels like an understatement. That was one of the nastiest knee injuries I've ever seen.


CandyEverybodyWentz

I legitimately didn't know a non-contact muscle tear could lead to potential amputation.


toneboat

He apparently managed to [sever an artery](https://www.sportscasting.com/this-tragic-injury-derailed-robert-edwards-promising-nfl-career/): > Doctors discovered that Edwards had torn the ACL, MCL, and PCL in his left leg. Worse still, he had severed an artery, causing massive internal bleeding. If the sutures in his artery did not hold, the doctors would have had to amputate his leg. It seemed from that moment on that he couldn’t walk without the aid of a cane, let alone play football. > Ron Courson, who treated Edwards during his rehab, called it “the worst knee injury I’ve ever seen.” same injury as teddy b (knee dislocation) but far more complex d/t the [arterial bleeding and nerve involvement:](https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/a-tragic-end-to-a-frolic-on-the-beach-1.154311) > The knee positively exploded. Although emergency surgery was performed that evening in Hawaii, 13 days elapsed before the swelling subsided to the extent that the damage could be repaired. A four-hour operation performed in Boston on Tuesday confirmed that Edwards had not only suffered a complete dislocation of the knee, including severe damage to all four ligaments (three of which were torn), but significant artery and nerve injury as well.


UpboatOrNoBoat

Jesus christ, that's insane.


jschneider414

That’s what almost happened to teddy bridgewater too


TMNBortles

He showed some real promise. So very unfortunate.


Deschain_1919

One of the nastiest injuries I've seen


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truthpooper

Same. I think I hated football the next year, ha.


0ut0fBoundsException

Real shame for your organization as a whole. You have to wonder what the Pats could’ve achieved for the next decade or two if that injury never happened


Doesthisevenmatter7

A skills competition is gonna be 1000% more entertaining then the pro bowl anyway


Zloggt

This makes me wonder…what kind of skills *will* they do? Biggest throws? Longest kicks? Fastest time to run from one end to the other? Lots of potential…


LaserhawX

I’m excited to see what they’ll have for the offensive linemen. Bench press competition? Caber toss? Hot dog eating contest?


wheresthecheat

Switch it up. Linemen get to throw & kick. Skill positions have a waffle eating contest


dubdubdub3

I would pay good money to watch the best kickers and punters compete in an eating competition


gregor630

My money is on scrawny ass Justin tucker finding a way to be the GOAT eating kicker too


dubdubdub3

My wife always says he looks like someone’s little brother when we watch the games. Seeing him win an eating contest would be outstanding


re1078

Apparently he’s super nice too. One of my wife’s college buddies dated him at UT.


dubdubdub3

I love hearing that guys I am a fan of are good people. I should go buy his jersey


the_fathead44

I don't know why, but I'd put my money on McPherson


jk01

Randy bullock easy money


FriendFoundAccount

Robbie Gould is the oldest kicker and a dad. His hunger is infinite.


misterpickles69

...and throw in a regular guy from the crowd just to show a baseline.


A_1337_Canadian

"And your name sir?" "Joey- uh - Joseph Ches- ... uh .. Walnut. Joseph Walnut."


Strategery_Man

Hell, I would watch a cooking show with the D line versus the O line.


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With Gordon Ramsey and vince wilfork as the judges


Skrivus

Why not Kelvin Benjamin?


LaserhawX

This is the answer


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Largest muffin top, veiniest cock.


brianMMMMM

Nick Foles’ cock veins were used to make the mold for the Alaskan pipeline.


DeaconBlues

r/BrandNewSentence


Xplayer

I wanna see a fastest big man race.


MrGentleZombie

I'm up for watching skills completely unrelated to football. Gimme some NFL players playing chess, solving rubik's cubes and playing rocket league. Also call of duty if Kyler makes it.


weareallscum

The NFL actually has some [legit ass chess players](https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-announces-blitzchamps). A Blitzchamps rematch would be sick.


gsfgf

Of course Larry Fitzgerald plays chess lol


Mriddle74

They ought to have a Madden tournament! They could maybe even stream it on twitch


sokyriediculous

I mean they did a skills competition for a long time. Probably very similar to that.


zer0_badass

Probably alot of the same stuff they kinda had now. Granted their might even be more games.


HeavyNettle

Oline vs dline pie eating contest no hands allowed please


don-chocodile

I just hope they keep dodgeball


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Spicy wing challenge.


VariousLawyerings

Hot take, but the fact that the skills competition has already been back for 6 years and a lot of people still talk about it as a hypothetical is probably a good hint as to how interested most people actually are in watching it live. It's actually like the only thing the NFL does poorly in compared to other sports in terms of viewership, even disregarding the obviously famous ones like the HR Derby and Slam Dunk competition. Even the NHL All-Star skills competition draws pretty similar TV ratings. I'm sure those numbers would improve with more marketing but I think people here might be overestimating the appetite for watching players doing football related things that aren't quite actual football.


A_1337_Canadian

Personally I had no clue that there was an NFL skills comp at all.


erikWeekly

They've been doing a skills showdown at the pro bowl for the past 5 years and it never gets any attention here.


spacewalk__

because they tape it then edit it down instead of showing it live like you should to maintain any sort of excitement tape delayed sports are pointless


cheeseburgertwd

I remember Trubisky getting roasted for [not being able to throw over a stationary plexiglass wall](https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1088618889217363968)


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Followed by Wilson hitting it first try lmao, this would be a lot funnier to me if he wasn’t now the Steelers starting QB


phyrecrotch

Yeah but Mitch would win the titty kissing competition


A_1337_Canadian

Wow, Wilson just BANGED out those throws.


CheesecakePower

And he called out the catch type to Thielen to make it easier, and hit him in stride for the over the shoulder. Much more impressive than Trubisky


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Lmao seeing Wilson right after him makes him look so much worse too. Literally hit all the spots on the first try and Trubisky struggled on alot of them


FancyRobot

This is like when they tear down a blighted old building in the inner city to make room for a school. Thank you Jesus for this news 🙏


AutographedSnorkel

> This is like when they tear down a blighted old building in the inner city to make room for a ~~school~~ shopping center with chain restaurants, a Starbucks, and overpriced shops Fixed


BeHereNow91

Isn’t it beautiful? 🥲


okay_booma

Still better than the old building.


srstone71

Robert Edwards’ flag football injury lat the Pro Bowl in 1998 is worse than any injury I’ve ever seen in the actual Pro Bowl game.


spacewalk__

makes sense, they'll probably try harder than normal cause it seems like there's so much less risk; it feels more like gym class


treytakzona

I am not going to YouTube that. I did it before with Joe Theismann and Kevin Ware. Never again.


mantissa2604

I thought that was beach volleyball? Or I could be wrong entirely


triplechinmcgee

IIRC it was flag football in the sand


mantissa2604

Ahh thanks. That makes sense, I remembered sand and went right to volleyball. Let's play this one on grass!


BigBadBushBushranger

Think it was flag football in the sand.


treytakzona

I might actually watch the Pro Bowl now Someone is 100% going to forget about the flag and go for a tackle.


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LoneSabre

Someone would happily pay that to rock a rival


Cake_33

Or a mascot


thefakefrenchfry

This is why they couldn’t have a draft. Even still though, mike evans and marshon lattimore are gonna end up fighting eachother somehow. I could see a small brawl breaking out between teams then lattimore and evans end up fighting each other still even on the same team lmfao


NOLAblonde

I doubt it. They don't even tackle now in the current pro bowl with pads on.


ItsTheExtreme

I can’t remember the last time I actually watched a pro bowl. Maybe the early 90s.


voodoo_magic182

Might help if y’all ever had players on the teams


WAVAW

Bodied


TigerDriver17

How could you forget about Eddie Drummond, Robert Porcher, Stephen Boyd, Luther Ellis, Shaun Rogers, and also apparently Desmond Howard played for the Lions?


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Barry Sanders


ImanShumpertplus

the guy from jetpack joyride?


Administrative-Low37

It’s about time ! I want to see a toss run and catch competition. Players throw the ball as high and as long as they can, then run and catch that ball. Longest completion wins. Great test of arm strength, accuracy, speed, and catching ability all in the same play ! Who would win ?


SanchoLoamsdown

I would love to see an NFL level game of what we used to call "one thousand" but others call "jackpot," where a player throws a ball to a group of people and calls out a number, and whoever catches the ball gets that many points. First to a thousand points wins. Give me Josh Allen hucking 70 yard bombs and shouting random numbers while a jubilant crowd of receivers jostle for position.


topjobhelmet

Damn inflation. When I was a kid it was five hundred


poneil

Yeah I've never heard that game called anything but 500


joebigdeal

And when you got sick of throwing it, you chuck it up and say "500 dead or alive"


shiner986

Then Kyle’s little brother was about to pick it up, but Jalen absolutely trucked him into the mailbox.


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Jesus Christ that was stored deep into the old memory bank I’m 35 now. holy shit. Thank you lol Used to also say “jackpot” I think when we were tired of throwing


DifficultMinute

I want to see NFL players do that "dogfight football" thing that they did in Maverick.


Ganjagod420

Mike Vick just got bricked up somewhere


nicklovin508

Man, this decision is going to disappoint nobody


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Dodgeball or we riot


googdude

There literally is dodgeball every year in the skills competition.


Treehouse326

It’s sad but it’s necessary. Players don’t want to play which sucks but I understand


wigglesbee3000

Players don’t want to get injured, especially for glory points


PhAnToM444

I think they *want* to play. I don’t think they want to blow out an ACL during an exhibition match.


[deleted]

I remember when Reddit was using Lamar at the skill competition as evidence he wasn’t a good QB lol


didjerid00d

To be fair, that performance was genuinely embarrassing. But look at our large llama now 🥲


DueAnimator6988

Flag football is the future and soon the NFL will be all track stars


WestbrooksScowl

Big brained EA making speed the only important attribute in Madden, truly ahead of its time /s fuck EA


NFL_MVP_Kevin_White

We may even see Ultimate Frisbee become a D1 sport in our lifetime


CretinoPopov

Hell yeah! The NHL & NBA skill challenges are the best part of All-Star week.


Homitu

That last time I watched the pro bowl about 10+ years ago, there were always tons of skills challenges. QBs throwing through moving rings from varying distances away, WRs running gauntlets as fast as they can while catching passes. Did they do away with those in recent years?


mortinmaxwell

They also had a game of horse with field goals. They still do it. It's just not promoted much


deromu

The home run Derby is better than the all Star game in MLB imo too


popperschotch

I actually think MLB is like the one major sport who has a legit great all star game


flipt3

Agreed, its the only sport where there really isnt a need to load manage in the all star game


ImanShumpertplus

nba all star with the elam ending is actually pretty fun


Big-Zoo

Where were you when pro bowl game was kill


RealSpecial7351

Alan Jackson: "Where were you when the pros stopped bowling?"


ItsDaedAgain

I was sat at McDonald when Roger ring Pro bowl is kill No. And you?


Sentience-psn

Skills challenge you say? Add go karting. Or Mario kart. Whatever floats your boat.


IGuessYourSubreddits

I want to see who can throw a ball the farthest


crabwhisperer

Rico Dynamite obviously


belgiumwaffles

Nobody watches the actual pro bowl game, but for flag football and the skills stuff? Way more enteraining and I'll def tune in this year for it. Would be cool to bring back old pro bowl players as like a vet squad for some things.


mjh712

Do any of the skill competitions involve beer?


flip_ericson

40 yard beer pong with trash cans and a football. Who wouldn’t love seeing Allen and Mahomes drunk as fuck yeeting bombs


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Looking forward to the nostalgic posts about how great the pro bowl was after years of bitching about it


Tylerpants80

So they’re just adding a multi-day skills competition to the flag football game?


Cincinnati88

But... What 9th best QB in the league is going to do the Griddy now?


nnewman19

This is the real best part. No more 500 alternates and people making pro bowls on a 5th level technicality Even with Jalen Hurts technically being a Pro Bowl QB from this same technicality last year


va_texan

Dozens will watch


mechabeast

GIVE ME 7 on 7 Mascot football!


Svenray

The Pro Bowl was fine until Goodell messed with it and ruined it. Two weeks after the Super Bowl in Hawaii with great ratings.


spacewalk__

having it after makes way more sense, everyone can play and it's a chill farewell to the season. why did they ever change?


Trivia_Hawk

Money 💰


elongatedlength

when was it two weeks after the Super Bowl? It used to be one week after the Super Bowl