Browns' Joe Thomas takes the credit for getting dodgeball added to the Pro Bowl

Published Dec. 22, 2016 8:20 a.m. ET

Brett Smiley

Seeking ways to renew interest in a sleepy Pro Bowl weekend that players themselves have increasingly found ways to escape, Cleveland Browns veteran tackle Joe Thomas offered the NFL suggestions ranging from a 3-point shooting contest to dodgeball.

"I said people would tune in and watch [a dodgeball game]" Thomas said on Wednesday via ESPN after he was named to his 10th consecutive AFC Pro Bowl roster.

Here's how the sturdy left tackle humbly, hilariously took credit:

"Not to take any credit, but I'm taking credit here," Thomas said. "That was one of my suggestions to spice up the Pro Bowl a little bit, was to do skills challenges that aren't specific to your position. I thought it would be really funny to make fat O-linemen try to throw a football or catch a football. Or make quarterbacks have a long drive contest or make them lift weights.