The city of Springfield will host a Nationwide Soccer League recreation in December at Atoms Stadium, however neither the Springfield Atoms nor the Shelbyville Sharks will take the sphere.
As an alternative, the Bengals-Cowboys recreation on December 9 might be remodeled into the world of TV’s longest working sitcom The Simpsons for a particular Funday Soccer version of Monday Night time Soccer. The particular Simpsons-ized broadcast will air on the ESPN+ and Disney+ streaming providers and the NFL+ cellular app. The sport will broadcast in its common type on ESPN, ESPN+, ABC, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes.
The sport will implement monitoring expertise to show the gamers on the sphere and ESPN commentators Mina Kimes, Dan Orlovsky and Drew Carter into Simpsons characters. Kimes, Orlovsky and Carter will put on Meta Quest Professional headsets to see their digital environments. The quarterbacks might be remodeled into Bart for the Cincinnati Bengals and Homer for the Dallas Cowboys utilizing Sony’s AI information analyzer and sports activities monitoring and broadcast expertise, in keeping with .
The sport may even function extra characters and pre-animated scenes from the present’s authentic forged together with Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith together with some shock sports activities cameos. Characters like Lisa, Krusty the Clown, Carl, Lenny, Moe and Milhouse might be on the sidelines rooting for his or her respective groups. The announcement doesn’t point out Harry Shearer, so don’t anticipate Mr. Burns or Smithers to be on the recreation.
This isn’t the primary time that ESPN has turned a daily season NFL recreation into an animated spectacle. Final yr, Disney, ESPN and the NFL teamed as much as flip an October recreation between the Atlanta Falcons and the Jacksonville Jaguars right into a Toy Story themed recreation that remodeled London’s Wembley Stadium into Andy’s room. The children’ cable community Nickelodeon has additionally aired just a few NFL video games for its NFL Slimetime broadcasts that includes reside commentary from animated characters like SpongeBob voiced by Tom Kenny and Patrick Star voiced by Invoice Fagerbakke and computerized slime spewing in the long run zones after touchdowns.
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