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The Pro Bowl is the National Football League's All-Star game. The game is the last game of the season. It's officially called the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl. The game has been played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii since February 1980.
A postseason All-Star game between the new league champion and a team of professional all-stars was added to the NFL schedule in January 1939, at the end of the 1938 season. In the first game at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, California the New York Giants beat a team made up of players from NFL teams and two independent clubs the Los Angeles Bulldogs and the Hollywood Stars. An all-NFL All-Star team provided the opposition over the next four seasons, but the event was cancelled after the game at the close of the 1942 season.
The NFL revived the game in January 1951, after the 1950 pro football season. It was a contest between conference all-star teams: American vs National (1950-52), Eastern vs Western (1953-1969), and AFC vs NFC (since 1970). Games are listed below by the season they represented, although beginning with 1950, the games were played in January or February of the following calendar year. The listed year reflects the football season involved: for example, the teams in the game listed under 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom were comprised of players who were all-stars during the 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom pro football season, while the game was played following the season, in February 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U. The Pro Football Hall of FameThe Pro Football Hall of Fame is actually the National Football League's Hall of Fame. The building opened in Canton, Ohio on September 7, 1963 with 17 charter inductees. Through 2004, all but one of the inductees played some part of their pro career in t includes American Football LeagueThe American Football League was a professional league of American football which operated from 1960 to 1969. There were three earlier, unrelated, and unsuccessful football leagues with the name of "American Football League", one in 1926, one in 1936- 193 All-Star Games in its statistics for "Pro Bowls". From 1961 through 1969, the AFL East All-Stars played the AFL West All-Stars, with the exception of 1965, when an AFL All-Star team played the AFL Champion Buffalo BillsAlternate meaning Buffalo Bills (barbershop quartet) The Buffalo Bills are a Buffalo, New York-based National Football League which plays its home games in the suburb of Orchard Park. Founded: 1960 (charter member of the American Football League; joined N. After the AFL-NFL MergerThe AFL-NFL Merger of American professional football leagues in 1970 was the result of many social and economic forces that came to a head in 1966. After its inception in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, the NFL adopted its current of 1970, the name of the NFL's all-star game was changed to the "AFC-NFC Pro Bowl".