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NFL to have Pro Bowlers play dodgeball as part of 'skills showdown'

Dodgeball is coming to the Pro Bowl.

The NFL announced Monday it will hold a "skills showdown" as part of the festivities next month in Orlando. Included in the events at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports are a "best hands" competition, "precision passing," a four-man "power relay challenge," and a game of "epic" dodgeball.

You read that last part correctly and this wasn't an announcement made on The Onion.

Pro Bowlers will compete in a game of dodgeball. That sounds like fun, until someone tweaks their elbow or slips and tears an ACL or takes a ball to the face and has a broken nose.