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The 15 best moments from the Simpsons Funday Football broadcast

The Simpsons Funday Football broadcast was a great time.

Monday night’s Simpsons Funday Football broadcast went off without a hitch.

The incredibly fun Simpsons-themed ESPN broadcast of the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys game gave fans some incredibly memorable moments throughout the evening.

As Homer Simpson’s Cowboys and Bart Simpson’s Bengals battled each other on the Springfield gridiron, the broadcast featured some hilarious sequences that would even make the Comic Book Guy impressed.

Even if you never want to see a Simpsons-themed NFL game again, you have to admit this was pretty enjoyable in spurts at the least.

Let’s recap 15 of those moments that we’ll be talking about all week.

Mina Kimes, Dan Orlovsky and Drew Carter did a great job with the game broadcast. 

Best Simpsons-themed NFL broadcast ever.

Kimes pranked Orlovsky with a Bart-inspired play on words. 

D’oh!

Homer Simpson appeared on the ManningCast

Homer finally got a chance to meet Peyton and Eli Manning!

Jason Kelce signed a Simpsons-themed donut

Mmmmm…donuts.

Stephen A. Smith popped up for a Simpsons-themed rant

Pretty convincing to us!

The Simpsons player introductions were pretty great

Nice one, Krusty.

Homer threw a touchdown to CeeDee Lamb for the Cowboys

Is there a quarterback controversy in Dallas?

Ralph Wiggum caught a Bengals touchdown from Bart

We choo-choo-choose this replay.

Moe Szyslak hit the truck stick on a Cowboys fourth-down stop

Don’t tell Seymour Butts.

Lisa Simpson turned on the jets for this impressive Bengals touchdown

Go, Lisa, go!

Homer did the hiding in the bushes meme

Of course he did.

Homer picked off Bart to force an interception 

Ay, caramba!

Spider-Pig briefly joined the game as the football 

Spider-Pig football, Spider-Pig football, does whatever a Spider-Pig football does.

Barney Gumble recorded an NFL carry 

*belch*

Milhouse almost fumbled the ball for Cincy, but it was called an incomplete pass

Everything’s coming up Milhouse… even though it almost wasn’t!

Feature image courtesy of ESPN. 

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Mina Kimes tricked Dan Orlovsky with a perfect Simpsons-themed prank

D’oh!

Ahead of Monday night’s Simpsons Funday Football broadcast, ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes pranked fellow analyst Dan Orlovsky with a Bart Simpson-inspired pun for the ages.

Paying homage to Bart’s prank calls to Moe’s Tavern, Kimes asked Orlovsky about a player on the upcoming game roster named “Hugh Jass.”

Hugh Jass? Get it? Orlovsky didn’t at first, as he fell hook, line and sinker for Kimes’ Simpsons-ready prank.

We like to think Bart was somewhere laughing in the background as Kimes executed this prank to absolute perfection.

As for Orlovsky, cowabunga, dude. You might want to brush up on your Simpsons episodes!

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Watching Ralph Wiggum catch a Bengals TD from Bart Simpson truly boggled the mind

Super Nintendo Chalmers would be proud. 

The Simpsons Funday Football broadcast featured some truly wild moments, but none more mind-boggling than Ralph Wiggum catching a touchdown from Bart Simpson.

Yes, Chief Wiggum’s son hauled in a Cincinnati Bengals touchdown from Bart, which was really Ja’Marr Chase snagging a pass from Joe Burrow. Super Nintendo Chalmers would be proud.

Could you have predicted a year ago a major ESPN broadcast would show a Burrow-to-Chase touchdown with Bart and Ralph from The Simpsons?

No, no you couldn’t have. This is too wonderful for comprehension… or terrible. We’re not entirely sure. Ralph Wiggum now has an NFL touchdown, and you don’t. Process that as you go to sleep.

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MNF collab with ‘Simpsons’ provides tremendous introductions

Great start for MNF and “The Simpsons’

Monday Night Football and “The Simpsons” are working together.

And if the rest of the game is as good as the starters’ introduction, it will be spectacular.

Check these out:

Oh and we had a great Bengals touchdown:

Homer Simpson threw a TD for the Cowboys, and it sparked so many jokes

Homer Simpson: QB1

Monday night’s Simpsons Funday Football broadcast of the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys game featured a first in league history.

Simpsons star Homer Simpson threw a touchdown to Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. Yes, that Homer Simpson.

Rather than have a Simpsons-ized version of Cowboys quarterback Cooper Rush, the broadcast put an actual Homer Simpson cartoon in the game to throw a touchdown to a wide-open Lamb in the end zone.

Honestly, Homer Simpson’s touchdown throw to Lamb might be one of the best Cowboys fans have seen this season. We hear he’s a free agent.

Of course, NFL fans had some great jokes off this truly bizarre moment.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN. 

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Stephen A. Smith delivered a Simpsons-ized rant on the Simpsons Funday Football broadcast

Simpsons-ized Steven A. Smith!

Monday night’s Simpsons Funday Football broadcast of the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys game featured some fascinating quirks.

One of them was a Simpsons-ized take on ESPN sports personality Stephen A. Smith.

Indeed, Smith’s Simpsons avatar appeared during the pregame coverage to deliver a very Simpsons-friendly rant about the game ahead.

If you ever wanted to see what Smith would look like in the world of The Simpsons, this is the moment. It’s a pretty fun little wrinkle to all the festivities, even if the game itself is truly baffling to watch in this altered broadcast format.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN. 

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The NFL Simpsons game broadcast: Channel, time, how it’ll all work and everything else to know

WOOHOO!

For one fun night, The Simpsons will be doing an NFL game.

That’s right, we’re getting an alternative broadcast of Monday’s Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys game in Week 14, with their very own team of announcers and so much animation.

Despite the fact that it might be a mess of a game, it should be a lot of fun. And if you’re here, you might be wondering: how do you watch it? How’s it all going to work?

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Fear not! We have all the info you need to know as you settle in to watch the broadcast.

What channel is The Simpsons broadcast of Monday Night Football on?

It’ll be on ESPN+, Disney+ or NFL+, all of which requires a subscription.

What time will The Simpsons game broadcast start?

That would be 8 p.m. ET before the 8:15 p.m. ET kickoff.

How will the Simpsons game work, exactly?

You’ll get to see the Cowboys and Bengals playing like they’re doing in real life, but thanks to Sony’s Beyond Sports Technology, it’ll look like a bunch of characters from the show are playing at Atoms Stadium in Springfield.

You’ll also get Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa and Maggie showing up in various ways, whether it’s interviews or little vignettes. Bart is on the Bengals’ side, while Homer is all about the Cowboys.

Have we seen what it’ll look like?

That tweet from Mina Kimes gives you an idea, but if you look at the 2023 Toy Story version of a game, it’s a good preview:

Who’s calling the NFL Simpsons game on Monday?

That would be Drew Carter, Dan Orlovsky and Kimes.

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Why anyone predicting Cowboys-Bengals to be flexed from MNF is probably wrong

Two important factors may be in play that keeps the NFL from saving a prime-time audience from watching two floundering franchises. Blame byes and blame Bart.

The Dallas Cowboys are “ungood”. The Cincinnati Bengals are more competitive, but still “ungood”. It makes zero sense to keep what was anticipated to be a high-profile matchup between playoff contenders, back when the schedule was being defined in the spring, as the Monday Night Football matchup for Week 14.

The NFL has until next Tuesday, November 26, to move this game, but they won’t. Joe Burrow playing at an MVP level is not enough reason to keep this game in its slot. The fact that more than half the football universe despises the Cowboys and loves to see them flail embarrassingly isn’t enough reason either. The teams are a combined 6-15 entering this weekend and in any other scenario, their miserable play would send them up to the late-afternoon Sunday slot at worst, potentially deserving of a noon kickoff.

No, the only thing saving this game is Bart. Bart Simpson, that is.

On Monday, ESPN and Disney released the latest promo for their annual Funday broadcast, a simulcast where the game will be shown in Simpsons-themed animation to try and bring the NFL to a younger audience.

And while the promo has swapped out Prescott for Cooper Rush, it realistically seems the lift would be much too heavy for an upheaval of their months of preparations for this particular matchup.

NFL flex rules allow Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football (starting in Week 12) to swap out a bad matchup for a better one. FOX and CBS Sports are allowed to protect one game each week, but NBC and ESPN have the right to snatch any other game.

Perhaps the worst thing about it is, if the alt-cast really is preventing the league from flexing the game out, it’s not even a viable data point for where the bar is to flex out a Cowboys game. It’s a case where both teams could have poor records and be out of playoff contention, which has rarely been the case for past bad Cowboys games, but unlike with the one Cowboys game that did get flexed out, there shouldn’t be a risk that both teams will be eliminated from the playoffs entirely by the time the game kicks off, so there’s no way of knowing whether that situation would be enough for a flex in the future. We may never know if the only reason Bengals-Cowboys shows up on ESPN’s air in two and a half weeks is for the sake of an alt-cast that should get a fraction of the game’s audience. – Morgan Wick

Week 14 was weird to begin with, the NFL scheduling a whopping six teams with byes, making the pool of potential matchups difficult to begin with. Baltimore, Washington, Houston and Denver are all currently above .500 but taking that week off.

Green Bay and Detroit is on Thursday Night Football and the Chiefs-Chargers tilt is on SNF already. Falcons-Vikings, 49ers-Bears, and Bills-Rams are the only other intriguing matchups in Week 14 and at least two of those would be protected.

So aside from all of the man hours that would be thrown in the toilet on the pre-production side, none of those games would likely bring in enough of an audience to justify the change.

So Bengals-Cowboys is likely to remain on Monday Night Football in Week 14.

Fans should check back in two weeks from now to see about the Cowboys-Buccaneers Week 16 tilt currently scheduled for SNF, though.

Why the Simpsons are preventing an awful Bengals-Cowboys MNF game from being flexed out

D’OH!

That’s right, it’s all the Simpsons’ fault that we can’t get a better Monday Night Football game on our televisions.

Let’s explain: ESPN has some awesome plans for a Simpsons-themed alternative broadcast we’ll see in Week 14. The game that’s scheduled for that night? The hapless Cincinnati Bengals against the haplesslier (real word) Dallas Cowboys.

Bleh. Flex that thing out!

Except they can’t, per SI.com’s Jay Morrison who says the game “is not eligible to be flexed out because of all the drawings, voiceovers and other work that has been done for The Simpsons alt-cast that will air that night.”

D’OH!

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ESPN will air a Simpsons-themed broadcast of Bengals-Cowboys in December

D’oh!

ESPN is headed to Springfield for one of its Dec. 9 Monday Night Football broadcasts for the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys game.

The network will stream an alternate broadcast of Bengals-Cowboys with theming from The Simpsons, similar to what it did with Toy Story and a London NFL game in 2023.

The alternative broadcast will air on ESPN+ and Disney+ via streaming and NFL+ via mobile, with Bart Simpson representing the Bengals and Homer Simpson representing the Cowboys.

“Each Bengals and Cowboys player will appear as a motion-enabled, animated player for the special primetime matchup,” a Disney release reads.

“Through state-of-the-art tracking technology enabled by NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Sony’s Beyond Sports, combined with Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations’ optical tracking, fans enjoying The Simpsons Funday Football will see every snap, run, pass, score, and more from the real-life Bengals and Cowboys matchup at AT&T Stadium as it happens.”

No word if Comic Book Guy will be critiquing the Bengals and Cowboys at halftime.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN. 

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