New Orleans Saints fans looking for a colorful twist on their usual anxiety-inducing playoff experience will have the option to turn to Nickelodeon for the Saints’ Wild-Card Round game with the Chicago Bears. The network, which specializes in children’s animation, will be pairing with CBS Sports for a unique broadcast of the Saints-Bears matchup for the first time this season.
So expect to see plenty of cutaways to SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends celebrating big plays, with Nickelodeon’s signature green slime drenching players (created by CGI, of course), of course. They have a lot of bells and whistles planned for the show, which will be called by Nate Burleson and Noah Eagle (son of CBS Sports play-by-play man Ian Eagle). The usual CBS broadcast will also be available.
Here are the details for each matchup in the Wild-Card Round: