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The Simpsons Tackle ‘Monday Night Football’ in Disney’s Latest Bid to Bring Kids to NFL
Disney's ESPN will create an animated simulcast of a December 'Monday Night Football' telecast that lets Simpsons characters pay in the game
In the kids’ version of the game, Bart Simpson will play at times for the Bengals and his father, Homer, will fight for the Cowboys, while sister Lisa and mother Marge will interview players while baby Maggie operates the sky-cam. Disney and ESPN, meanwhile ,have aired a broadcast of an NHL match-up that used animated figures from “Big City Greens,” and in 2021 tested a game using Marvel characters that kids could play as they watched an NBA contest between the Golden State Warriors and the New Orleans Pelicans. An animated version of a Sunday-morning game between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars broadcast from Wembley Stadium in London last year utilized “Toy Story” characters such as Woody, Buzz, Bo Peep, Bullseye and Slinky Dog.
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