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Ever wish your favorite football players could play for the same team? Well lucky for you and sports fans across America, you just might see this. The National Football League’s (NFL) Pro Bowl gives us a small glimpse of an NFL dream team once a year. That chance comes when top football players from the American Football Conference (AFC) team up to compete against the best players from the National Football Conference (NFC). This year will mark the first time that the Pro Bowl will be held during the off week that occurs between NFL’s Conference Championships and the Super Bowl. With the pressure of the season over, the elite join together with their rivals to see which conference reigns supreme. Players, coaches, and fans vote for the players that will represent each of the conferences in the game. While the game isn’t usually as hard hitting as a regular season game to prevent potential injuries, the game is still packed with punch and a must see for NFL fans.

This year’s NFC-AFC Pro Bowl game will be played on January 31, 2010 at 8 p.m. in beautiful South Florida at Dolphin Stadium host of Super Bowl XLIV, which will be played on the following Sunday. Since 1979, the annual game has been played in the same location at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii and always the week after the Super Bowl game. But this year is different and could prove to be one of the best Pro Bowl games ever at Dolphin Stadium, which is home to the Miami Dolphins, the NCAA’s University of Miami football team and the MLB’s Florida Marlins. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made the move in order to strengthen the Pro Bowl. Moving it up might keep NFL football fans interested as it leads up to the Super Bowl Game. Also, Goodell did not want to compete with some other top broadcasts, which include NBA’s All-Star Game, the Winter Olympics, Daytona 500 and usually the Grammy Awards. This years Pro Bowl will be aired on ESPN. The NFC and AFC rosters will not include any of the players that will be playing the Super Bowl the following week to prevent injury and to allow them to focus for the premier game. The game will still be exhilarating and exciting as you will be able to see all of your favorite players together on one field. You can experience this once in a lifetime opportunity and Premium Seats USA can hook you up with the best seats in the house. Come a few days early or stay a few days late to experience South Florida’s pristine beaches and exciting nightlife. Don’t sit back and watch the Pro Bowl from your TV. Become a Pro Bowl ticket holder now and give yourself a trip to remember forever. Support your favorite NFL players in South Florida and root on your favorite conference! And if you like it so much, stay an extra week and watch Super Bowl XLIV from inside the stadium as well!

The game will be the first Pro Bowl to be legally broadcast on internet radio. As part of an idiosyncrasy in the league's broadcast contracts, the Pro Bowl has, up to this point, never been broadcast on the NFL's FieldPass system due to it being broadcast exclusively by Westwood One. The NFL had negotiated internet broadcast rights with all 32 of its teams except for the Tennessee Titans, but never did so with Westwood One (since it was seen as redundant); since none of the 32 teams actually play in the Pro Bowl, FieldPass did not hold rights. When contracts were renegotiated in 2009, Westwood One's broadcasts were added to FieldPass, and along with it, play-by-play of the Pro Bowl.[4] Rosters for the AFC and NFC teams will not be allowed to include any players from the teams that will be playing in Super Bowl XLIV (as to avoid major injuries on either team), and as such, the game can thus be considered a "consolation bowl" for the players on the Pro Bowl teams. Coincidentally, the league's original consolation bowl, the Playoff Bowl, was played every year in Miami from 1960 to 1969 at the Orange Bowl Stadium.

Several NFL players have spoken out against the decision regarding timing of the game; for instance, nine-time Pro Bowl quarterback Peyton Manning raised issue with the possibility that if the concept were to continue, the 2012 game could be held in a cold-weather city, (Indianapolis, Indiana), not seen as a winter vacation destination.[5] Al Michaels, who has been the play-by-play announcer for 13 Pro Bowl games, told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that he believes the 2011 Pro Bowl will be played in Hawaii saying "the (NFL) thinks playing it before the Super Bowl will add to the buzz. It won't."[6]

The first Pro Bowl, featuring the all-stars of the 1938 season, was played on January 15, 1939 at Los Angeles's Wrigley Field. The game was then played at various venues before being held at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii for 30 consecutive seasons from 1980 to 2009. The 2010 Pro Bowl will be played at LandShark Stadium, the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins and host site of Super Bowl XLIV, on January 31, the first time ever that the Pro Bowl is held before the championship game.

Through the 2009 game, the NFC leads the series 20–19.

This will be the first time the Pro Bowl will be held during the off-week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. It was announced in December 2008, that instead of the traditional Pro Bowl the week after the Super Bowl, it will instead be held at the new time in Miami, the first time it will not be played at Aloha Stadium since 1979. Super Bowl participants will not play in the Pro Bowl; the league gives conference champions an extra week to rest and prepare for the Super Bowl. The NFL has indicated this may not be a permanent transition, but is merely something they have been wanting to try out, and has discussed a rotating location for the Pro Bowl.

The move also means that the game, which otherwise would have been played February 14, will not compete against the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, the second full day of competition in the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the 52nd running of the Daytona 500.