NFL Pro Bowl (2014)
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| 2014 NFL Pro Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 26, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Offensive – Nick Foles Defensive – Derrick Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Scott Green | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | TBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Grace Potter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coin toss | TBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | Fall Out Boy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth, Michele Tafoya, and Doug Flutie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | TBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2014 Pro Bowl is the upcoming NFL's all-star game for the 2013 season. It will take place at 2:00 pm local time today at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii. The game will be televised nationally by NBC and will be the final Pro Bowl on network television before exclusive rights move to ESPN.
In the largest change to the Pro Bowl, the teams will no longer be AFC vs. NFC, and instead be selected by captains in a fantasy draft (similar to the current National Hockey League All-Star Game since 2011) on January 21-22. The teams will be called Team Rice and Team Sanders, after Pro Football Hall of Famers Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders who have been selected as alumni team captains and who will assist in the fantasy draft.
The captains for the Pro Bowl will have Drew Brees and Robert Quinn paired together while Jamaal Charles and J.J. Watt will be the other pairing. These four captains, which are the top two leading vote getters on offense and defense from the teams that did not advance to the conference championship round, will be teamed with Rice and Sanders to determine the rosters for the game.
Chuck Pagano of the AFC South winning Indianapolis Colts will coach along with Ron Rivera of the NFC South winning Carolina Panthers. These coaches were selected for coaching the highest seeded team to not qualify for their respective Conference Championship Games, which has been the convention since the 2009 Pro Bowl.
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Rule changes
- Two former players, Jerry Rice and Deion Sanders, drafted players on to the teams. Each was assisted by two player captains and one NFL.com fantasy football champion. As a result, the Pro Bowl will not be AFC vs. NFC.
- A two-minute warning will be added to the first and third quarters, and the ball will switch hands after every quarter.
- No kickoffs. A coin toss will determine which team is awarded possession first, and the ball will be placed on the 25-yard line at the start of each quarter and after scoring plays.
- The rosters will now consist of 44 players per squad, with an additional defensive back added.
- The defense will be permitted to play "cover two" and "press" coverage. In the previous years, only the "man" coverage was permitted, except for goal line situations.
- Beginning at the two-minute mark of every quarter, if the offense does not gain at least one yard, the clock will stop as if the play were an incomplete pass.
- A 35-second and 25-second play clock will be used instead of the usual 40-second and 25-second clock.
- The game clock will not stop on quarterback sacks outside of the final 2 minutes of regulation/4th quarter
Rosters
Team Sanders
Team Rice
Selected but did not participate
Number of selections per team
Broadcasting
References
External links
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