Deadspin | Pro Bowl Games moving to Super Bowl week in Bay Area

[ad_1] Feb 3, 2023; Las Vegas, NV, USA; The Professional Bowl Video games and AFC logos in the long run zone of the flag soccer subject at Allegiant Stadium. Necessary Credit score: Kirby Lee-Imagn Photographs The NFL is shifting the Professional Bowl Video games to Tremendous Bowl week this February, the league introduced on Wednesday.

Staging the showcase within the Bay Space forward of Tremendous Bowl LX is meant to shine a brighter gentle on flag soccer forward of the game's Olympic debut in Los Angeles in 2028.

"Constructing on our robust partnerships with the Bay Space Host Committee and ESPN, we're thrilled to make the 2026 Professional Bowl Video games introduced by Verizon a part of Tremendous Bowl week, our greatest platform of the 12 months, elevating flag soccer and our greatest gamers in a method that is by no means been finished earlier than," stated Peter O'Reilly, NFL government vp of occasions, worldwide and membership enterprise.

"The Professional Bowl Video games is not going to solely be an thrilling showcase of our greatest expertise, but in addition a style of the elite athleticism and dynamic motion we will anticipate to see on the Olympic stage."

The Professional Bowl Video games sometimes are held throughout the additional week between the convention championship video games and the Tremendous Bowl. They had been held in Orlando, Fla., the previous two years following two years in Las Vegas.

Protection of the 2026 Professional Bowl Video games will start on ESPN at 6:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Feb. 3. The flag soccer recreation will start at 8 p.m. ET on the Moscone Middle, a conference middle advanced in San Francisco.

"We're devoted to creating the Professional Bowl Video games a prime-time tv occasion that may improve Tremendous Bowl week," stated Burke Magnus, ESPN president of content material.

"Our shared imaginative and prescient focuses on utilizing a manufacturing strategy that spotlights the world's greatest gamers in a fashion distinctive to the Professional Bowl Video games format, whereas highlighting flag soccer and its emergence on the worldwide sports activities panorama."