Believe it or now no longer, they used to play a actual soccer recreation for the yearly Pro Bowl. The event, made to understand the NFL`s high-satisfactory gamers during the last season, was a huge deal.

But, in latest years, the even has misplaced its luster. Players are understandably reluctant to play difficult in a full-touch soccer recreation which means nothing, so the nice of the sport went manner down.

Coming into the 2022 NFL season, the league determined to redesign the event. They bumped off the real recreation and as a substitute changed it with abilities activities on Thursday and a flag soccer recreation on Sunday.

But, enthusiasts seemingly did now no longer just like the abilities opposition much, at the least consistent with the rankings.

The article said, in part:

The reimagined Pro Bowl Games began on Thursday with an hour and a half Skills Competition, and there wasn’t all that much fan interest.

Per ShowBuzz Daily, 1.063 million viewers watched the 7 PM broadcast on ESPN. That’s fewer viewers than the two and a half hour long Grizzlies-Cavs game on TNT that started at 7:45 PM, which averaged 1.165 million viewers. It did manage to top the 10:15 PM Clippers-Bucks game on TNT, which averaged 1.031 million viewers.

That seems…less than ideal?

In fact, the Pro Bowl Games Skills Competition was outdrawn by the previous three pre-All-Star Game events from the NHL (1.086 million), NBA (4.236 million), and MLB (6.019 million). It also got outdrawn by the “Pro Bowl Celebration” from January 2021, which mainly consisted of highlights and interviews (1.211 million).

Its quite sudden that it were given beat via way of means of comparable activities in different sports, thinking about that the NFL is the largest rankings juggernaut withinside the world. Who knows, perhaps subsequent years Pro Bowl abilities opposition will do better. But, this one turned into a whole failure.