NFL legend Steve Young pinpoints when Pro Bowl 'lost its luster'

NFL fable Steve Young talked Tuesday astir the decreasing involvement successful the Pro Bowl since the league changed the format from a regular crippled to a emblem shot event.

The erstwhile San Francisco 49ers prima appeared connected "The Dan Patrick Show" connected Tuesday earlier this year’s Pro Bowl Games and was asked erstwhile the lawsuit "lost its luster." Young pinpointed erstwhile the archetypal format began to autumn level with players.

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AFC manager Steve Young during signifier astatine the NFL Flag Fieldhouse astatine Moscone Center South Building connected Feb. 2, 2026. (Kirby Lee/Imagn Images)

"The Pro Bowl mislaid its luster erstwhile … the biggest beatings I’ve ever taken successful my shot vocation were astatine the Pro Bowl. You laughter due to the fact that it makes nary sense," Young said. "Why would the biggest beating … due to the fact that you’re playing with elite players successful the NFL and everyone’s been astatine the formation each week and nary 1 truly knows the plays and present Reggie White doesn’t drink, you cognize what I mean? Reggie White is not hungover, oregon Bruce Smith oregon sanction it, you cognize what I mean?

"There are Pro Bowls erstwhile I look backmost and I’m like, this is not right. I conscionable finished the Super Bowl and present I’m going to the Pro Bowl and I emotion being successful Hawaii, but I’m not going to instrumentality a beating. So, it was irrational and it couldn’t beryllium sustained due to the fact that who’s gonna spell bash that and instrumentality that risk."

NFC backmost Steve Young (8) of the San Francisco 49ers attempts a walk against the AFC during 1998 Pro Bowl astatine Aloha Stadium connected Feb. 1, 1998. (VJ Lovero/USA TODAY NETWORK)

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Young said helium believed that the increasing involvement successful emblem shot globally volition yet crook players’ heads.

He added that helium was capable to get players’ attraction erstwhile helium stressed conscionable however galore radical would beryllium funny successful the crippled and that it’s becoming an elite athletics successful its ain right.

AFC wide receivers Ja'Marr Chase (1), of the Cincinnati Bengals, Tee Higgins (5), of the Cincinnati Bengals, Courtland Sutton (14), of the Denver Broncos, and Nico Collins (12), of the Houston Texans, are introduced earlier the NFL Pro Bowl shot crippled agains the NFC, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, successful San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

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"I deliberation the Pro Bowl, if we support playing flag, I deliberation it volition go thing I deliberation they volition commencement to clasp themselves and not conscionable beryllium like, ‘Eh, Pro Bowl is simply a joke,’" Young added.

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