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During the first five all-star games, an all-star team would face that year's league champion. The league champion won the first four games before the all-stars were victorious in the final game of this early series. The concept of an all-star game was not revived until June 1950, when the newly christened "Pro Bowl" was approved. [12]
The 1939 National Football League All-star Game was the professional football league's first-ever all-star game, sponsored by the Los Angeles Times as a charity game to benefit the Salvation Army. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It pitted the New York Giants , the league's champion for the 1938 season , against a team of all-stars.
In 2006, 2010 and 2014, the league did not hold an all-star game, instead releasing its players to play ice hockey at the Olympic Games. The league held an all-star game in addition to releasing its players for the Olympics in 1998 and 2002. Due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout cancelling the entire season, the All-Star Game was not held in 2005.
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who have been selected to play in the NFL's annual Pro Bowl game, beginning with the 1950 season. Between 1938 and 1942, an NFL all star team played the league champion in the NFL All-Star Game.
The 1942 National Football League All-Star Game (December) was the National Football League's fifth all-star game. The game pitted the Washington Redskins, the league's champion for the 1942 season, against a team of all-stars. The game was played on Sunday, December 27, 1942, at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in front of 18,671 fans ...
The 1940 National Football League (NFL) All-Star Game was an exhibition contest that the NFL organized after the 1939 season.The game was played between the Green Bay Packers, the league's champion that season, and a team of All-Stars made up of players from the remaining NFL teams.
The game pitted the Chicago Bears, the league's champion for the 1940 season, against a team of all-stars. [1] The game was played on Sunday, December 29, 1940, at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles, California before an overflow crowd of 21,000, [2] with members of the Stanford and Nebraska football teams also in attendance; the two were scheduled ...
The 1965 Pro Bowl was the NFL's fifteenth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1964 season.The game was played on January 10, 1965, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California in front of 60,698.