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10/28 21:38 CDT 'The Simpsons' will be part of Monday Night Football alternate
broadcast on Dec. 9
'The Simpsons' will be part of Monday Night Football alternate broadcast on
Dec. 9
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) --- Ay, Caramba! Bart and Homer Simpson, meet "Monday Night
Football."
The Dec. 9 Monday night game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys
will also air from Atoms Stadium in Springfield as part of an alternate
telecast.
"The Simpsons Funday Football" telecast will be streamed on ESPN+ and Disney+
while the game airs on ESPN and ABC.
This is the second year ESPN has done an alternate broadcast for an NFL game.
It used the characters from "Toy Story" for last year's Sunday morning game
from London between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars.
In this iteration, Bart will team up with the Bengals while Homer joins the
Cowboys. Others Simpsons characters, including Marge, Lisa and Maggie, will
also be featured.
Producers for "The Simpsons" will also have original content for the telecast
that will be utilized before, during and after the game.
ESPN has been successful with alternate broadcasts of NFL games, including the
"ManningCast" during "Monday Night Football" and playoff games.
The telecast will be entirely animated, with the players' movements in sync
with what is happening in real time on the field. That's done through
player-tracking data enabled by the NFL's Next Gen Stats system and Beyond
Sports.
Beyond Sports, a company based in the Netherlands, will mostly be responsible
for the player animation and making sure the player tracking data works with
the animated product.
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