Remember How The NFL Is Showing One Of Its Wild Card Games On Nickelodeon This Postseason? Well There Is Going To Be Slime In The End Zone, Googley Eyes On Players, And A SpongeBob Halftime Show

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SBD- End zones will be filled with superimposed slime during next month’s NFL Wild Card game telecast on Nickelodeon. Additionally, when a player mugs for the camera following a big play, cartoonish googly eyes -- or some other Snapchat-type of filter -- will be superimposed onto him during replays. Nickelodeon’s production, which was part of CBS Sports’ winning bid to carry the game, will have a distinctly Nickelodeon look-and-feel -- one that the NFL hopes will have more young viewers sample the game scheduled for Jan. 10 at 4:30pm ET. 

Noah Eagle will call the game in the Nickelodeon booth, with CBS’ Nate Burleson and Nickelodeon’s Gabrielle Nevaeh providing analysis. Nick’s Lex Lumpkin will be the sideline reporter. Nick’s pregame show will be “The SpongeBob SportsPants Countdown Special” hosted by Broncos LB Von Miller. The halftime show will be a sneak peek of “Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years,” which debuts on Nick later in the year. After a touchdown, the Nickelodeon telecast will cut to an animated SpongeBob and his friend Patrick screaming “Touchdown!”

You know what, I'm just gonna come out and say it. I fucking love this idea! I'm sure there are plenty of Football Guys out there clutching their whistles over the thought of a playoff game being shown on a channel that shows cartoons the rest of the day. But anything I can do to trick my two little kids into wanting to watch a football game instead of the same Bubble Guppies episode they've watched 1000 times let alone one day actually LIKING football is great for me. I don't need to listen to the CBS' D-team drop the same football cliches while calling play by play of some game we will forget ever happened soon as its over. Nothing beats weird football and having slime, googley eyes, and SpongeBob is about as weird as it can get. Besides, we are getting an extra set of Wild Card games this year thanks to the new playoff format and the game will be shown on CBS as well, so if you want to watch the same old football you have watched your whole life, you can do it anyway. 

The only bummer in all this is that this game isn't a Texans/Bengals matchup, which would've felt absolutely perfect as a digital arts and crafts experiment on Nickelodeon. Here is what the Eagles-Packers game from last week looked like when they tested it out. 

I mean that's not terrible, right? Just some fun graphics and commentary along with a reminder that googley eyes still play all these years later. It's pretty much an episode of Barstool Sports Advisors except without Stu Feiner screaming about snorting cocaine out strippers asses. I wish they had included something for the old school Nick fans like an Aggro Crag at the 50 yard line or that little jerk Angelica from Rugrats as a sideline reporter. But as long as they play Sweet Victory at halftime, everyone will go home happy.

To be clear, I have no clue what this song is all about because I am too old for SpongeBob and my kids are too young for it. But all the 20-somethings on my timeline keep mentioning it so I'm gonna try to act like I know it too 

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Also you gotta kiss the ring of the innovator of this whole thing, Bob Diaco.

2016 UConn football, truly a program before its time.