Interesting Facts About the NFL All Star Games
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The all star pro bowl matches held each year by NFL at the end of its season is indeed a spectacular event never to be missed. With some of the prominent names in football being a part of it, this global event is indeed something to look forward to.
Players coming from various NFL teams constitute the National Football Conference or NFC team and if they were to wear their original uniforms they would be creating lot of confusion. The only thing they can carry representing their home team is the helmet. NFC players wear solid blue jerseys and pants, AFC players wear solid red jerseys and pants and the away team players wear white jerseys with red or blue accents. The design of the uniforms is changed once in two years with rotation of color and white jerseys on design change. The tradition of wearing team specific helmets first started in 1979. Earlier to that between 1950s and 60s the teams had a different combination. The eastern team was represented by scarlet jerseys with numerals in white, crescent shoulder straps in white, red striped white pants, plain red helmet and red socks. The western team had white jerseys with numerals in royal blue and triple striped sleeves, blue striped white pants, plain blue helmet and socks.