The city of Springfield will host a Nationwide Soccer League sport in December at Atoms Stadium, however neither the Springfield Atoms nor the Shelbyville Sharks will take the sector.
As an alternative, the Bengals-Cowboys sport on December 9 might be reworked into the world of TV’s longest working sitcom The Simpsons for a particular Funday Soccer version of Monday Evening Soccer. The particular Simpsons-ized broadcast will air on the ESPN+ and Disney+ streaming providers and the NFL+ cell 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 sector 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 reworked into Bart for the Cincinnati Bengals and Homer for the Dallas Cowboys utilizing Sony’s AI knowledge analyzer and sports activities monitoring and broadcast expertise, in line with .
The sport will even function extra characters and pre-animated scenes from the present’s unique 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 count on Mr. Burns or Smithers to be on the sport.
This isn’t the primary time that ESPN has turned an everyday season NFL sport into an animated spectacle. Final yr, Disney, ESPN and the NFL teamed as much as flip an October sport between the Atlanta Falcons and the Jacksonville Jaguars right into a Toy Story themed sport that reworked 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.
