NFL Skills Showdown Recap

Ten Pro Bowlers from the AFC and NFC competed in a skills challenge in advance of the Pro Bowl on Saturday in Orlando, Florida at ESPN's Wide World of Sports. The event pitted the players in five different games; the best hands challenge, the power relay, the wide receiver drone drop, the precision passing challenge, and the highlight of the event, a dodge ball game.

The best hands challenge and precision passing challenge were pretty basic and uneventful. The drone drop was a very inventive idea introducing new technology into the game of football. Odell Beckham Jr., one of the NFL's most popular players among its younger audience won the event catching a football dropped from a drone from an astonishing height of 125 feet! His performance just proves what amazing things you can do when you are not preoccupied with kicking nets.

Everyone that was going to watch the Pro Bowl was interested in one event especially, the dodge ball game. Just think what it would be like watching your favorite NFL players playing the game that you used to in elementary school!

One humorous part of the dodge ball game was when Alex Smith, the quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, went to throw a ball at the NFC team. It did not go well, as you can see in the YouTube clip above. Thinking that Smith was an NFL quarterback, the NFC team all stepped back in anticipation of the throw, only to see it land harmlessly in front of them. The internet, as it is wont to do, proceeded to mercilessly make fun of Smith.

The good news for Smith is that he is under contract for the Chiefs for 2017, a contract that will cost the team $16.9 million! It's a good thing that he signed this contract years before his pitiful dodge ball performance.