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On January fourteenth, nineteen fifty one, the very first Pro Bowl featuring all
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All Stars happened, changing the NFL landscape and the season that we all know
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today that usually ends with the Pro Bowl. Let's find out the story behind
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this iconic game. Welcome to daily sports History. I'll meet them Breeze your
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guide to a quick deep dive every day into sports history. There's one game
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every year in the NFL season that some people love, but many of us
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are sad to see because that means the NFL season is almost over. That
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gate is the Pro Bowl. Currently, the Pro Bowl is played the week
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before the Super Bowl, but previously had it always been held the week after
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the Super Bowl or a couple weeks after. The reason this started was because
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the All Star Game was originally the champion of the NFL facing off against the
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All Stars of the rest of the league. It had been that way for
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over a decade. Then in nineteen fifty they decided at the end of the
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nineteen fifty season that they would change this and to have all stars representing both
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conferences, the National and the American. Each team would be led by the
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coaches that were in the championship game. Representing the National League was Joe Steider
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and representing the American League was Paul Brown, whose Cleveland Browns had won the
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championship a few weeks earlier. Each team consisted of thirty one players, and
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the game looked very different then, Won't we see a day? Back then,
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both coaches ran a form of the wing T offense, which is a
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very run heavy offense, not a lot passing. The game was held in
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Los Angeles, California, at the Memorial Coliseum in front of over fifty three
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thousand fans. Still early in the day, it was not a televise event.
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The New York Giants in the Los Angeles Rams had the most players playing
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in the game, and back then each conference only had six teams, which
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is why each team was so small. The players were selected by the coaches
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of all the teams in the NFL, along with the sports editors of the
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newspapers in the LA area where the game was to be played. Even though
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the game featured run heavy offenses. Is a twenty eight to twenty seven final
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score, with the American Conference coming out on top. Cleveland quarterback Otto Graham
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was named the most outstanding player of the game. Many future Hall of Famers
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played in this game, and this game today still continues, although in a
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very different form as defense is not as expected and running the ball is not
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something they like to do either. Thank you for listening to the day's Daily
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