Toy Story Funday Football Oct 1, 2023

Disney+, ESPN+ to host an animated, ‘Toy Story’-themed NFL game on October 1

Lauren Forristal
@laurenforristal / 9:11 am PDT • September 12, 2023


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“The event, titled “Toy Story Funday Football,” will stream on Disney+, ESPN+ and NFL+ (mobile only) on October 1 at 9:30 a.m. ET. It will air the same time as the real NFL International Series game, which takes place at Wembley Stadium in London.”

“Toy Story Funday Football” will replicate on-the-field gameplay with animated Falcon and Jaguar players — who don’t have faces, for some reason – running around on a traditional-looking field in Andy’s room. Viewers can watch every run, pass and score in real time through “state-of-the-art tracking technology,” wrote ESPN in a press release, enabled by the NFL’s Next Gen Stats player tracking data and AI-based visualization company Beyond Sports.”

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https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/12/disney-espn-animated-toy-story-nfl-game-falcons-jaguars/amp/