By Tiffany Williams –
The NFL is turning Thanksgiving into a voting blitz, firing the starting gun on the 2026 Pro Bowl Games Vote presented by Jersey Mike’s on Nov. 27 — and this year the league is dragging its all-star circus straight into Super Bowl week.
For the first time, the Pro Bowl Games powered by Verizon will crash Super Bowl LX week in the San Francisco Bay Area, shifting from its usual standalone slot to the heart of the NFL’s biggest party. The league is betting big on its AFC vs. NFC flag showcase, using Moscone Center South as a made-for-TV arena to tease the sport’s LA28 Olympic debut and pump some adrenaline into a week usually stuffed with press conferences and corporate handshakes.
The reimagined setup puts the NFL’s top talents in front of prime-time cameras, families, friends, and a hand-picked crowd — a packaged spectacle meant to cap the season with a sugar-rush event that mixes competition with pure TV bait.
ESPN kicks off coverage from San Francisco on Tuesday, Feb. 3, starting at 6:30 p.m. ET, with the flag football game firing up at 8 p.m. ET. Disney XD and ESPN Deportes will carry it too, giving the league all the screen space it can grab.
Fans can stuff the ballot box as often as they want from Nov. 27 through Dec. 15, tapping every platform the league can think of: ProBowl.com/Vote, team sites, and the chaos factory known as X, where tagging a player’s handle, typing their full name, or hashtagging their name — paired with #ProBowlVote or Pro Bowl Vote — all count. And in true NFL fashion, the final 48 hours turn into a double-vote power play.
The league is also dragging Madden Mobile into the mix. On Madden NFL 26 Mobile, fans can cast votes via Ballot Tokens — up to 30 a day — resetting daily at 10:30 a.m. ET. Those votes double on Dec. 14-15 too.
Selections still come down to the NFL’s familiar three-way split: fans, players, and coaches each carrying a third of the final say. Players and coaches get their turn on Dec. 19.
More info lives at probowl.com/howtovote and ProBowl.com, but the message is loud and simple: the league wants votes, the league wants eyeballs, and the league wants its all-star flag showdown to hit Super Bowl week like a headline-stealing blitz.
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