The Pro Bowl games are set for Sunday, Feb. 5. The event will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial).

The NFL finally stopped pretending its all-star game was an actual game, and is breathing life into the exhibition with Sunday’s Pro Bowl Games.

There will be no tackle football played for the first time — not that there was much tackling in recent years, more like two-hand touch. Flag football is now the marquee event.

Will the dramatically different format work? The league desperately hopes so. Rather than a winner-take-all game, a series of events — each of which accumulates three points — lead up to three flag football contests to determine the winning conference.

Four skills events took place Thursday, and the AFC will try to extend its five-game winning streak after taking a 9-3 lead by winning the precision passing competition, the three-event lightning round and the long drive. The NFC won in dodgeball.

Sunday brings the end of the skills portion: the finals of the best catch, an obstacle race, a special teams game called kick-tac-toe and a strength contest. Then the two conferences will play each other in two flag football games, each worth six points.

The total points from all the contests will be the score entering the third and final flag football game.

Las Vegas is hosting for the second year in a row, and there has been no announcement about the Pro Bowl’s future after this season. Because the Super Bowl will be at Allegiant Stadium next year, it’s unlikely the NFL will want to play both in the same venue so close together.

Sunday will go a long way in dictating the longer-term direction.

No matter the location or the format, lots of top stars usually opt out. Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen cited an elbow injury as his reason to skip this year’s event, but he played golf in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

The AFC had to go deep into the alternate quarterback list to fill out its roster with Tyler Huntley and Derek Carr. Huntley played in five games this season for the Baltimore Ravens, and Carr was benched by the Raiders with two weeks remaining.

Not that the Pro Bowl is devoid of talent. The AFC’s receiving corps of Ja’Marr Chase, Stefon Diggs and Tyreek Hill is the definition of an all-star group. There also are recognizable names throughout both rosters, such as Barkley, Derrick Henry, Justin Jefferson, Christian McCaffrey, Minkah Fitzpatrick, Roquan Smith, Micah Parsons and Fred Warner.

But the biggest stars might be the two coaches — brothers Peyton and Eli Manning.

When is the Pro Bowl?

The Pro Bowl event is set for 2 p.m. (3 p.m. ET) on Sunday, Feb. 5.

Will it be live streamed?

FuboTV

The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.

What TV channel will broadcast the game?

The Pro Bowl Games will be broadcast on ESPN and ABC.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.