The first-ever real-time animated alternate telecast of the Super Bowl will be set in the Star Wars galaxy.
Star Wars Funday Football
Star Wars Funday Football will be broadcast simultaneously with Super Bowl LXI on Sunday, February 14, 2026. Fans will be able to watch live on Disney+, Disney Channel, Disney XD, and the ESPN App.
Every play of Super Bowl LXI will be recreated in real time with players transformed into animated avatars, Star Wars characters subbing in during key moments, and various Easter eggs. Original Star Wars cast member Anthony Daniels returns as the voice of C-3PO.
The presentation will have expanded live international availability in markets including Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand, Canada (TSN+), the Netherlands, sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
The animated game will also be available on demand on Disney+ shortly after the live telecast in these markets and additional regions, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, South Korea and more, bringing total availability to more than 155 markets worldwide.
Star Wars Funday Football will be presented alongside the traditional telecast with Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, and Laura Rutledge on ESPN, ABC, and Disney+. ESPN’s Spanish-language telecast will be available on Disney+ and ESPN Deportes, with a separate Spanish-language presentation on Univision.
ESPN will produce Star Wars Funday Football with data visualization technology from Sony’s Beyond Sports, which has enabled the animated gameplay of previous Funday Football presentations. The technology combines tracking data from the NFL’s Next Gen Stats and Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations optical tracking.
This will be the fourth Funday Football, following The Simpsons Funday Football, Toy Story Funday Football, and Monsters Funday Football, but the first animated altcast of a Super Bowl.
Beginning Tuesday, October 20, SC+ on Disney+ will feature Star Wars “Hyperspace Highlights” with plays from Monday Night Football presented with a Star Wars visual theme. Also, starting October 26, SC+ will showcase on Mondays an animated Darth Vader interviewing an NFL player participating in that night’s Monday Night Football game.
Star Wars Funday Football will be just a few days before a restored version of the original 1977 Star Wars film returns to theaters on Friday, February 19.
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