‘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 Evening Soccer.”

The Dec. 9 Monday night time recreation between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will even air from Atoms Stadium in Springfield as a part of an alternate telecast.

“The Simpsons Funday Soccer” telecast will likely be streamed on ESPN+ and Disney+ whereas the sport airs on ESPN and ABC.

That is the second 12 months ESPN has completed an alternate broadcast for an NFL recreation. It used the characters from “Toy Story” for final 12 months’s Sunday morning recreation from London between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars.

On this iteration, Bart will crew up with the Bengals whereas Homer joins the Cowboys. Others Simpsons characters, together with Marge, Lisa and Maggie, will even be featured.

Producers for “The Simpsons” will even have authentic content material for the telecast that will likely be utilized earlier than, throughout and after the sport.

ESPN has been profitable with alternate broadcasts of NFL video games, together with the “ManningCast” throughout “Monday Evening Soccer” and playoff video games.

The telecast will likely be fully animated, with the gamers’ actions in sync with what is occurring in actual time on the sphere. That’s completed by player-tracking knowledge enabled by the NFL’s Subsequent Gen Stats system and Past Sports activities.

Past Sports activities, an organization based mostly within the Netherlands, will principally be accountable for the participant animation and ensuring the participant monitoring knowledge works with the animated product.

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