Tag: Nickelodeon

Did Nickelodeon just change how we watch football?

Could the NFL keep some of the ingenious graphics used by the children’s television station, Nickelodeon?

This afternoons NFL Wildcard game that featured the New Orlean Saints and Chicago Bears broke a barrier of sorts due to their broadcast on Nickelodeon. It was the first of what I expect to be many of, a potential game-changing event for the future of football games on television.

Their broadcast team consisted of four members: former NFL star Nate Burleson, Noah Eagle (son of megabroadcaster Ian) and Nickelodeon star Gabrielle Neveah Green in the booth with Nick star Lex Lumpkin on the sidelines. It wasn’t about this, although it was interesting to hear child stars making their NFL debuts. The game changing aspect was how the children’s station showed some of their graphics.

This was probably the most important one of them all, giving the NFL plenty of marketing ideas for their future games. Keep in mind that previously the NFL has had advertisements on the netting during field goals, but nothing like what Nick did. Imagine the NFL changing out Sponge Bob for a beer sponsor.

At the end of the day, the NFL’s bottom line is about making money and this surely planted at least a semblance of an idea in their heads. That wasn’t all Nick did, the slimezone was a unique added function as well.

We might have just seen history today with this broadcast. Not just in the NFL but at the collegiate level as well. Hat’s off the Nickelodeon and their ingenuity for bringing these elements to an NFL game.

WATCH: True to his word, Sean Payton tanks a bucket of Nickelodeon slime

New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton pledged to get slimed by Nickelodeon if his team beat the Chicago Bears, and he stayed true to his word

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With the news that Nickelodeon would be broadcasting its first NFL playoff game this week, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton pledged to “get slimed, whatever that means” during a press conference days before kickoff with the Chicago Bears. And while he initially lost sight of that item on his checklist in the minutes after eliminating Chicago, Payton doubled down in his postgame press conference, promising to try it out after finishing his media obligations.

Unlike his players — who were doused with computer-generated slime by the broadcast crew during their game — Payton was hit with the full thing, taking a bucket full of green goo on the chin.

Hey, he deserves props for it. There aren’t many better motivators around the NFL than Payton, and this is just more proof of it. Maybe he can keep that good energy going into next week’s rematch with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Just, without as much slime.

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Nickelodeon broadcast had a hilarious reaction to F-bomb dropped during Saints-Bears

ON A KIDS SHOW!

Heading into the NFL playoffs, the league billed the Nickelodeon broadcast of the NFC Wild Card round between the New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears as a kid friendly viewing experience.

And the early returns were overwhelmingly positive for the Nickelodeon NFL experience. There were funky graphics, slime animation for touchdowns and some surprisingly good commentary from the team of Nate Burleson, Gabrielle Nevaeh Green and Lex Lumpkin.

But still, this was live television. And NFL football is still a violent, contact sport that also includes plenty of live microphones to pick up language that doesn’t find regular air time on Nickelodeon. You know, like an F-bomb.

During the first half, we could hear a player let out an F-bomb within range of the official’s microphone. And the curse word was very audible on the Nick broadcast.

Leave it to Nickelodeon to have a great reaction of “Alright, let’s uh…”

Fans had plenty of jokes for the moment too.

It was inevitable.

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Social media adores Nickelodeon broadcast of Chicago Bears-New Orleans Saints

The Nickelodeon broadcast of the Bears-Saints is turning into a fun-filled time

The NFL better watch itself or it will lose the moniker No Fun League.

The NFC Wild-Card game between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints is also being shown on Nickelodeon with many kid-friendly gadgets.

Check out some that already have wowed the social media world.

 

 

WATCH: Michael Thomas scores a TD catch, gets slimed on Nickelodeon broadcast

New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas caught a touchdown pass against the Chicago Bears in the playoffs on a Nickelodeon broadcast

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It didn’t take long for Michael Thomas to reintroduce himself. The New Orleans Saints wide receiver caught the first play of the game on his team’s opening drive, then followed up with a red zone touchdown catch on their second possession.

That’s exactly what you want to see from Thomas after his injury-marred season, including three weeks of rest on the injured reserve list going into this playoff game. What you may have not expected to see were the enormous slime cannons that popped up in the end zone on the Nickelodeon broadcast.

While it was only computer-generated slime in this instance, the good is one of the channel’s staples and has been for decades. So it’s cool to see Thomas and his teammates (and, hilariously, the defense they just beat) covered in it, even if it’s digital. Honestly, they may prefer it that way.

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NFL fans quickly fell in love with the goofy Nickelodeon broadcast of Bears-Saints

This is fun.

The Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints are currently playing in a wild card game that is being aired on CBS with Tony Romo and Jim Nantz on the call.

But, in case you didn’t know, it is also being broadcasted on Nickelodeon for the first time ever as the league tries to attract younger fans or something, I guess.

Whatever is the case, the Nickelodeon broadcast crew has Noah Eagle on play by play and Nate Burleson as the analyst. Also, the graphics packages and first down/line of scrimmage lines look a lot different as they have more of a green lime look.

The touchdowns are wild:

NFL fans have quickly fallen in love with it:

Saints-Bears earns Nickelodeon simulcast; full NFL Wild-Card Round schedule

The NFL Wild-Card Round matchup between the New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears will be available on CBS Sports and Nickelodeon broadcasts.

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:

 

The NFL’s Nickelodeon Wild Card weekend broadcast is going to be so bizarre but fun

SpongeBob is coming to the NFL

The NFL’s Nickelodeon broadcast has officially reached pure perfection. Last year, they broadcasted a playoff game on Nick and it was pretty fun.

This year? It’s going to be absolutely wild. This year’s January 10 NFL Wild Card featured on Nickelodeon will have slime in the endzone, googly eyed players and cuts to SpongeBob and Patrick screaming “touchdown” after every score, according to the Sports Business Journal.

This is going to be fun. The only thing missing from this thing so far is a SpongeBob “Sweet Victory” performance at halftime, but it’s fine. Baby steps.

CBS and Nick already tested the “Nickified” game on a Packers vs. Eagles broadcast from earlier this year and the results were pretty fun — albeit a bit jarring.

Here’s a bit on how they’re doing it, per SBJ.

“Something that happens on a previous drive, maybe by the next commercial break we can have that Nickified play come back to the truck,” said CBS Sports Coordinating Producer Shawn Robbins. “That’s what we were testing.” Robbins said the test worked out well, with replays coming back to the production truck quicker than anticipated. “It was the most unique thing I’ve ever seen doing football for a while,” he said. “In realtime, replays were pushed to the Nick animation studio and sent back to the truck.

Some fans were pumped about the new look.

Others thought it was pretty weird!

Still, though. Is it too late to get Sweet Victory in the lineup? Because, man. That’s an easy W. Either way, this is going to be fun — albeit really bizarre.

Ideas for a Nickelodeon playoff broadcast from those that matter: Nickelodeon viewers

The NFL will air a playoff game on Nickelodeon next year geared towards a younger audience. We asked two experts what that might look like.

It was announced today, with the news that the NFL will be expanding the playoff format for the 2020 NFL season, that some of the playoff games will air on Nickeledeon, aimed at engaging a younger audience.

That immediately touched off a number of jokes on Twitter, with football fans talking about slime and physical challenges and other aspects that are elements of the network’s staple of shows. But I turned to two experts on the channel for ideas on what a playoff game could look like on Nickeledeon.

My son Owen (eight) and my daughter Simone (six). Who better to ask than the experts?

Here is what they came up with.

SpongeBob Studio Show

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Courtesy of my son Owen, who went through a massive SpongeBob Squarepants a few years ago, comes this idea: A pre-game show featuring the main characters from the long-running Nickelodeon cartoon.

Think about it for a second. The main hero SpongeBob SquarePants. Often hopelessly friendly and optimistic, an endless enthusiasm for life, that he somehow manages to keep while working as a short order cook at the Krusty Krab, keeping the denizens of Pineapple Bottom fed with Krabby Pattys. Your perfect, cheerful main host.

The two sidekicks? Of course Patrick, SpongeBob’s best friend and a starfish with a lack of intelligence that he makes up for with a similar happy and refreshing outlook on life. Squidward Tentacles rounds out the studio team, an ill-tempered octopus who also works at the Krusty Krab, but fails to share the happy view of life in Pineapple Bottom that his neighbors SpongeBob and Patrick bring on a daily basis.

SpongeBob and Patrick can provide the cheerful outlook on each team and a “best case scenario” for each team’s playoff hopes, while Squidward can bring everyone back to earth about how none of this even matters and every should just eat at Arby’s…I mean the Krusty Krab.

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