The 2019 Pro Bowl was the
National Football League
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's
all-star game
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for the
2018 NFL season
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, played on January 27, 2019, at
Camping World Stadium
Camping World Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Orlando, Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States located in the West Lakes neighborhood of Downtown Orlando, west of new sports and entertainment facilities including the Kia Center, the Dr. Phil ...
in
Orlando, Florida
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. It was televised nationally by
ESPN
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and its sister networks.
Game format
The 2019 game featured the same format as the previous five editions. For the sixth straight year, the Pro Bowl differed from standard NFL game rules and format in that there were no kickoffs and every quarter had a
two-minute warning
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. Also, the play clock was only 35 seconds, and the game clock ran after pass incompletions, except with less than two minutes left in either half (or overtime, had it been necessary).
As with the previous Pro Bowl, a modified
limited-contact form was used, and play was called
dead
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as soon as a player was surrounded and likely to be tackled.
Summary
Box score
Scoring summary
Source:
Game statistics
AFC Rosters
The following players were selected to represent the AFC:
Offense
Defense
Special teams
Notes:
Players must have accepted their invitations as alternates to be listed; those who declined are not considered Pro Bowlers.
:bold player who participated in game
: signifies the player has been selected as a captain
:Replacement player selection due to injury or vacancy
:Injured/suspended player; selected but did not participate
:Replacement starter; selected as reserve
:Selected but did not play because his team advanced to
Super Bowl LIII
Super Bowl LIII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2018 season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots defeated the National Football Confe ...
''(see
Pro Bowl "Player Selection" section)''
:Selected but chose not to participate
NFC rosters
The following players were selected to represent the NFC:
Offense
Defense
Special teams
Notes:
Players must have accepted their invitations as alternates to be listed; those who declined are not considered Pro Bowlers.
:bold player who participated in game
: signifies the player has been selected as a captain
:Replacement Player selection due to injury or vacancy
:Injured/suspended player; selected but did not participate
:Replacement starter; selected as reserve
:Selected but did not play because his team advanced to
Super Bowl LIII
Super Bowl LIII was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2018 season. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots defeated the National Football Confe ...
''(see
Pro Bowl "Player Selection" section)''
Number of selections per team
Background
Host selection process
This was the last year of a three-year deal that began in 2017 that the Pro Bowl will be held at
Camping World Stadium
Camping World Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Orlando, Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States located in the West Lakes neighborhood of Downtown Orlando, west of new sports and entertainment facilities including the Kia Center, the Dr. Phil ...
in
Orlando, Florida
Orlando ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States. The city proper had a population of 307,573 at the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Florida behind Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville ...
.
Broadcasting
The game was televised nationally by
ESPN
ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...
, and simulcasted by
ABC and
Disney XD
Disney XD is an American pay television television channel, channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Entertainment units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven years old ...
,
ESPN to offer unprecedented coverage of NFL Pro Bowl across four networks: ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ABC and Disney XD
ESPN press release, retrieved January 24, 2019. and broadcast via radio by Westwood One
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The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1976. The co ...
. The game was carried in Spanish by ESPN Deportes
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. In contrast to the network's " megacast" approach to other multi-network games, all three English-language TV channels carried the same feed. It was the first time the NFL Pro Bowl was aired on a cable network that targets children: Disney XD.
References
External links
Official website
Box score
at ESPN
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
2018 NFL season
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American football competitions in Orlando, Florida
January 2019 sports events in the United States
2019 in sports in Florida
Simulcasts
2019 in Orlando, Florida