Nickelodeon to host alternate slime-filled Tremendous Bowl LVIII broadcast

The following Tremendous Bowl goes to be a sticky one. CBS Sports activities introduced that it’s connecting with Nickelodeon to air an alternate telecast of Tremendous Bowl LVIII that offers the NFL a extra family-friendly watching choice by including superimposed characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and animated slime-filled touchdowns.

This yr’s Tremendous Bowl will happen in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium, dwelling of the Raiders, on Sunday, February eleventh, 2024, at 6:30PM ET. At the moment, followers can tune in to their native CBS station or the Paramount Plus streaming app for the usual broadcast or let their children change the channel to Nickelodeon — tricking them into having fun with some good gridiron.

Nickelodeon has received Emmys for its earlier NFL broadcasts, particularly for the NFL Wild Card recreation between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints in 2021. “Our earlier telecasts on Nickelodeon have been enormous hits and created a brand new and totally different approach to expertise an NFL recreation,” NFL government VP of media distribution Hans Schroeder states in a press launch.

However that is the primary time Nickelodeon has introduced its digital slime to the Tremendous Bowl — and the primary time the Tremendous Bowl will get an alternate TV broadcast. Additionally this yr, previous Tremendous Bowl LVIII, Nickelodeon will air the “NFL Nickmas Sport,” which might be a slime-ified broadcast of the common season recreation between the Las Vegas Raiders and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Christmas Day at 1PM ET.