With the Pro Bowl in town, Abercrombie may be trying to make nice. Back in June, he told reporters that the state “bribes” the NFL to hold the all-star event here. But if today’s Pro Bowl presser is any indication, NFL officials haven’t noticed.

Pacific Business News reports: 

Everybody put on a happy face during the NFL Pro Bowl press conference Tuesday, but when this PBN reporter asked a league official about its all-star game in Hawaii and the idea of holding it in the same city as the Super Bowl or even elsewhere, things got a little testy, to say the least.

“We are aware of the comments of the governor,” Ray Anderson, the NFL executive vice president of football operations, answered.

When pushed by another reporter about what comments he was referring too, Anderson delicately sidestepped the question.