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In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the all-star game of the National Football League (NFL). It is played at the end of the season after the Super Bowl, the league championship game.

Since the merger with the rival American Football League (AFL) in 1970, it has been officially called the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, matching players in the American Football Conference (AFC) against those in the National Football Conference (NFC). The game has been played at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA since January 1980.

History

A postseason All-Star game between the new league champion and a team of professional all-stars was added to the NFL schedule at the end of the 1938 season.

On January 15, 1939, at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, California, the New York Giants won the first "Pro All-Star Game", 13-10, defeating a team of players from NFL teams and two independent clubs, the Los Angeles Bulldogs and the Hollywood Stars.

This format continued for the next four seasons, except that the all-star team now consisted solely of NFL players. In January 1942, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the game was moved from Los Angeles to the Polo Grounds in New York City. The last "Pro All-Star Game" was held in December 1942.With the wartime NFL playing a reduced schedule starting in 1943, the series was abandoned.

The NFL revived the game (now dubbed the "Pro Bowl") in January 1951, after the 1950 season. The game was now a contest between conference all-star teams: American vs. National (1951-53) and Eastern vs. Western (1954-70). The rival AFL, meanwhile, staged its own All-Star Game from 1962-70, using the same East vs. West format. The AFL departed from this format once, in the January 1966 game, when the league champion Buffalo Bills played all-stars from the rest of the league.

After the AFL-NFL Merger of 1970, the name of the NFL's all-star game was changed to the "AFC-NFC Pro Bowl". Since the merger, the head coaches of the teams that lost in the AFC and NFC championship games have been selected as the coaches for the respective Pro Bowl squads - a compromise that arose from the decision to discontinue the Playoff Bowl, which had it been retained, would have matched up the two teams that lost the conference title games.

Currently, players are voted into the Pro Bowl by the coaches, the players themselves, and the fans. Each group's ballots count for one third of the votes. The fans vote online at the NFL's official site.

There are also replacements that go to the game should any selected player be unable to play due to injuries. Prior to 1995, only the coaches and the players made Pro Bowl selections.

AFC-NFC Pro Bowls (1990-present)

Season	Date	Score	Most Valuable Players	Venue
1989-90	February 4, 1990	NFC, 27-21	Jerry Gray, Rams, Cornerback	Aloha Stadium
1990-91	February 3, 1991	AFC, 23-21	Jim Kelly, Bills, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
1991-92	February 2, 1992	NFC, 21-15	Michael Irvin, Cowboys, Wide receiver	Aloha Stadium
1992-93	February 7, 1993	AFC, 23-20 (OT)	Steve Tasker, Bills, Special teams	Aloha Stadium
1993-94	February 6, 1994	NFC, 17-3	Andre Rison, Falcons, Wide receiver	Aloha Stadium
1994-95	February 5, 1995	AFC, 41-13	Marshall Faulk, Colts, Running back	Aloha Stadium
1995-96	February 4, 1996	NFC, 20-13	Jerry Rice, 49ers, Wide receiver	Aloha Stadium
1996-97	February 2, 1997	AFC, 26-23 (OT)	Mark Brunell, Jaguars, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
1997-98	February 1, 1998	AFC, 29-24	Warren Moon, Seahawks, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
1998-99	February 7, 1999	AFC, 23-10	Ty Law, Patriots, Cornerback Keyshawn Johnson, Jets, Wide receiver	Aloha Stadium
1999-00	February 6, 2000	NFC, 51-31	Randy Moss, Vikings, Wide receiver	Aloha Stadium
2000-01	February 4, 2001	AFC, 38-17	Rich Gannon, Raiders, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
2001-02	February 10, 2002	AFC, 38-30	Rich Gannon, Raiders, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
2002-03	February 2, 2003	AFC, 45-20	Ricky Williams, Dolphins, Running back	Aloha Stadium
2003-04	February 8, 2004	NFC, 55-52	Marc Bulger, Rams, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
2004-05	February 13, 2005	AFC, 38-27	Peyton Manning, Colts, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
2005-06	February 12, 2006	NFC 23-17	Derrick Brooks, Buccaneers, Linebacker	Aloha Stadium
2006-07	February 10, 2007	AFC 31-28	Carson Palmer, Bengals, Quarterback	Aloha Stadium
2007-08	February 10, 2008	AFC vs. NFC		Aloha Stadium

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