Pro Bowl Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

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 2002 were comprised of players who were all-stars during the 2002 pro football season, while the game was played following the season, in February 2003. The Pro Football Hall of Fame includes American Football League 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 Bills. After the AFL-NFL Merger of 1970, the name of the NFL's all-star game was changed to the "AFC-NFC Pro Bowl".

NFL All-Star games

• 1938 (Jan.1939) New York Giants 13-10 All-Stars
• 1939 (Jan.1940) Green Bay Packers 16- 7 All-Stars
• 1940 (Dec.1940) Chicago Bears 28-14 All-Stars
• 1941 (Jan.1942) Chicago Bears 35-24 All-Stars
• 1942 (Dec.1942) All-Stars 17-14 Washington Redskins
• 1943-49 No games

1950s

1960s

• 1960 No game
• 1961 West, 47-27
• 1962 West, 21-14
• 1963 West, 27-24
• 1964 West, 38-14
• 1965 AFL All-Stars 30, Buffalo Bills 19
• 1966 East, 30-23
• 1967 East, 25-24
• 1968 West, 38-25
• 1969 West, 26-3

1970s

• NFL: Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (1939); Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles (1940–both games); Polo Grounds in New York (Jan., 1942); Shibe Park in Philadelphia (Dec., 1942); Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles (1951-72 and 1979); Texas Stadium in Irving, TX (1973); Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City (1974); Orange Bowl in Miami (1975); Superdome in New Orleans (1976); Kingdome in Seattle (1977); Tampa Stadium in Tampa (1978) and Aloha Stadium in Honolulu (since 1980).
• AFL: Balboa Stadium in San Diego (1961, 1962 and 1963); Jeppesen Stadium in Houston (moved from New Orleans) (1964); Rice Stadium in Houston (1965); Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland (1966); the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville (1967 and 1968); and the Astrodome in Houston (1969).

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