“The Simpsons Funday Football” will stream live on Disney+ and ESPN+ on December 9th

ESPN, Disney, The Simpsons, and the National Football League will premiere The Simpsons Funday Football on Monday, December 9th, an animated one Monday Night Football Game turned into an icon in real time Simpsons world with Sony's Beyond Sports technology. Atoms Stadium in Springfield will host the Cincinnati Bengals' immersive fan viewing experience at the Dallas Cowboys, ESPN Monday Night Football game that evening.

The Simpsons Funday Football The alternate presentation will stream on Disney+ and ESPN+, as well as mobile devices with NFL+. The traditional Monday Night Football The broadcast will be available on ESPN, ABC and ESPN Deportes Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli on ESPN2. Both the traditional television show and Peyton and Eli will also be seen on ESPN+, making every single presentation available on the ESPN app. All television broadcasts begin at 8:00 p.m. ET.

Internationally, the special presentation will be available live and/or via playback, linear or streaming, in more than 145 markets. This includes all of Latin America including Mexico and Brazil, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, the Netherlands, sub-Saharan Africa and Canada (TSN). Video on Demand will also be available in these and other markets for 12 hours after the live broadcast ends.

The legendary Simpsons The creators collaborated with ESPN and the NFL on the look, sound and feel to ensure the authenticity of the longest-running primetime scripted series with more than 750 episodes.

This is the second year in a row that ESPN, Disney and the NFL have presented one Funday football TV show.

State-of-the-art technology: The Simpsons Funday Football Includes every Bengals-Cowboys game

Each Bengals and Cowboys player appears as a motion-activated, animated player for the special prime-time matchup. With state-of-the-art tracking technology enabled by NFL's Next Gen Stats and Sony's Beyond Sports, combined with optical tracking from Sony's Hawk-Eye Innovations, fans can have fun The Simpsons Funday Football You'll see every snap, run, pass, goal and more from the real-life Bengals and Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium.

Sony's Beyond Sports allows two data sources to be combined, analyzed, validated, enhanced, translated into a 3D environment and streamed in real time to a desired platform. Sony's Hawk-Eye Innovations' optical tracking creates dynamic player and character movements, including detailed limb movements and mannerisms.

Bart and the Bengals, Homer and the Cowboys headline presentation with Classic Simpsons Characters and humor

With Atoms Stadium in Springfield as a backdrop, The Simpsons Funday Football will be a real family affair as Bart Simpson sides with Joe Burrow and the Bengals while Homer sides with Dak Prescott and the Cowboys. For most of the game, Bart and Homer will leave the action to their new Bengals and Cowboys teammates, but the legendary father-son duo won't be sitting on the sidelines the entire game. Everyone selects key opportunities to play offense and/or defense by replacing a player and joining their other 10 teammates on the field.

As part of the gameplay, Marge and Lisa will interview players during the game and Maggie will fly the SkyCam while popular characters, show references and aesthetics share a real Sunday night with theSimpsons feel Monday Night Football.

• A myriad of Simpsons Characters: The show will feature dozens of the series' iconic characters, each reprising their familiar roles.
• Authentic Simpsons Voices:Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner and Yeardley Smith will voice several of their characters in pre-recorded scenes and skits.
• Select side dishes: Homer and Bart will gather their supporters to stand by them on the sidelines throughout the match. Lisa, Krusty, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph will be with Bart (Bengals), while Carl, Barney, Lenny and Moe will be with Homer (Cowboys).
• custom Simpsons Scenes and Writing: Outside of live play Simpsons The producers have written original content for the television show that will be used before, during and after the game.
• The Simpsons Music: The timeless theme song and other jingles from the show are used.
• The Simpsons and ESPN: The television show will feature animated segments starring Stephen A. Smith, Peyton and Eli Manning, and others, whose segments were written by the author Simpsons Creator.
• Bengals and Cowboys players: Players from both teams will have pre-recorded segments that include interactions with them Simpsons Characters.

ESPN's in-house NFL personalities, Simpsons Fans are calling for action

The Simpsons Funday Football will have its own animated commentators, like those of ESPN Simpsons Enthusiasts Mina Kimes and Dan Orlovsky will provide a discussion on soccer strategy, while Drew Carter calls the game action. Kimes, Orlovsky and Carter are animated in the style of Simpsons And don ESPN Edge Innovation Partner's Meta Quest Pro headsets to experience the game from Springfield with VR technology and Sony Beyond Sports' Virtual Commentator technology.

ESPN's First Funday football Received numerous Sports Emmys and record-breaking Disney+ viewership

The second edition of Funday football follows ESPN's Toy Story Funday Football in October 2023, also presented by Disney, ESPN and the NFL and leveraging the NFL's Next Gen Stats, Sony's Beyond Sports technology and Hawk-Eye Innovation's skeletal data. The first-of-its-kind presentation for the NFL won three Sports Emmys – Outstanding Production Design, George Wensel Technical Achievement and Outstanding Graphic Design – and was honored with four additional US Festival Awards. The creative endeavor was ESPN's first fully animated NFL broadcast and delivered the largest live event on Disney+ to date (based on highest concurrency). For more on ESPN's unmatched history of alternative television programming, click here.

Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters on the traditional reputation of Monday Night Football

ESPN's Monday Night Football The traditional television broadcast features Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Lisa Salters live from AT&T Stadium. Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli will focus primarily on the traditional presentation while checking in regularly The Simpsons Funday Football.

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