"The Simpsons" will be part of Monday Night Football alternate broadcast on Dec. 9

Bart and Homer Simpson, meet “Monday Night Football.”

BRISTOL, Conn. -- Ay, Caramba! Bart and Homer Simpson, meet “Monday Night Football.”

The Dec. 9 Monday nighttime crippled betwixt nan Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will besides aerial from Atoms Stadium successful Springfield arsenic portion of an alternate telecast.

“The Simpsons Funday Football” telecast will beryllium streamed connected ESPN+ and Disney+ while nan crippled airs connected ESPN and ABC.

This is nan 2nd twelvemonth ESPN has done an alternate broadcast for an NFL game. It utilized nan characters from “Toy Story” for past year's Sunday greeting crippled from London betwixt nan Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars.

In this iteration, Bart will squad up pinch nan Bengals while Homer joins nan Cowboys. Others Simpsons characters, including Marge, Lisa and Maggie, will besides beryllium featured.

Producers for “The Simpsons” will besides person original contented for nan telecast that will beryllium utilized before, during and aft nan game.

ESPN has been successful pinch alternate broadcasts of NFL games, including nan “ManningCast” during “Monday Night Football” and playoff games.

The telecast will beryllium wholly animated, pinch nan players’ movements successful sync pinch what is happening successful existent clip connected nan field. That’s done done player-tracking information enabled by nan NFL’s Next Gen Stats strategy and Beyond Sports.

Beyond Sports, a institution based successful nan Netherlands, will mostly beryllium responsible for nan subordinate animation and making judge nan subordinate search information useful pinch nan animated product.

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