You sort of knew that if the NFL was cool with fake crowd noise and superimposing video-game-like fans in the stands, it was only a matter of time before we got googly eyes on players and fake slime in the end zone.
SpongeRoger Goodell is trying to come up with new ways to make pro football appeal to young people.
One of them is to allow — perhaps even encourage— CBS to produce an alternate version of its Jan. 10 wild-card game on corporate cousin Nickelodeon targeting the “All That” crowd.
Turns out that game will be the seventh-seeded Chicago Bears’ visit to New Orleans to take on the second-seeded Saints in an NFC wild-card game.