ESPN, Lucasfilm, Disney and the NFL will present a real-time, animated alternate telecast of Super Bowl LXI set in the Star Wars galaxy and featuring characters from across the Lucasfilm franchise, including original 1977 cast member Anthony Daniels returning to voice C-3PO. Extending the Emmy-winning Funday Football brand to America’s biggest game, _Star Wars Funday Football_ will stream live on Disney+ and the ESPN App, and air on Disney Channel and Disney XD on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2027, giving fans of all ages a new way to experience ESPN’s first-ever Super Bowl production.
_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+ from SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. ESPN’s Spanish-language telecast will be available on Disney+ and ESPN Deportes, with a separate Spanish-language presentation on Univision.
_Star Wars Funday Football_ will reach fans around the world this season, with 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 game will also be available on demand on Disney+ shortly after the live broadcast 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.
The Star Wars animated telecast will recreate every play of Super Bowl LXI in real time, transforming players on the field into animated avatars, while Star Wars characters join the action subbing in during key moments and various Easter eggs appearing throughout the game.
ESPN will produce _Star Wars Funday Football_ with data visualization technology from Sony’s Beyond Sports, which has enabled the animated gameplay of the Funday Football series since its inception. The technology transforms live gameplay into animation in real time by combining player tracking data from the NFL’s Next Gen Stats and Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations optical tracking. As Super Bowl LXI approaches, more details about the Star Wars animated presentation will be announced, including visual settings, commentators, characters and more.
_Star Wars Funday Football_ is the first animated alternate presentation of a Super Bowl and the fourth NFL animated alternate telecast from ESPN, Disney and the NFL. It follows _Toy Story Funday Football_ (October 2023, Falcons-Jaguars), which earned three Sports Emmy Awards; _The Simpsons Funday Football_ (December 2024, Bengals-Cowboys); and _Monsters Funday Football_ (December 2025, Eagles-Chargers).
_Star Wars Funday Football_ will arrive as Lucasfilm celebrates 50 years of Star Wars. Just five days after Super Bowl LXI, a newly restored version of the original 1977 version of Star Wars returns to theaters on Friday, Feb. 19.
The Star Wars alternate telecast is one of multiple options for watching Super Bowl LXI that ESPN, in conjunction with the NFL, is providing fans across platforms, including Super Bowl LXI with Peyton and Eli on ESPN2, Super Bowl LXI Field Pass with The Pat McAfee Show on ESPNU and Super Bowl LXI Playbook with Next Gen Stats on NFL Network, which ESPN [announced Oct. 11](https://espnpressroom.com/press-release/espn-adds-monday-night-football-field-pass-with-the-pat-mcafee-show-mnf-playbook-with-next-gen-stats-alternate-casts-to-super-bowl-lxi-select-m/).
Beginning Tuesday, Oct. 20, SC+, ESPN’s daily SportsCenter show on Disney+, will feature Star Wars “Hyperspace Highlights” with plays from Monday Night Football presented with a Star Wars visual theme. Also, starting Oct. 26, SC+ will showcase on Mondays an animated Darth Vader interviewing an NFL player participating in Monday Night Football that night.
All Disney+ subscribers in the U.S. can [stream the traditional Super Bowl LXI game presentation](https://espnpressroom.com/press-release/disney-to-stream-super-bowl-lxi-joining-espn-and-abc-to-give-fans-more-ways-to-watch/) airing on ESPN and ABC. Outside the U.S., Disney+ will stream ESPN’s Super Bowl in more than 55 international markets, including Spanish-speaking Latin America, Brazil, the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia/New Zealand. In addition, ESPN networks will carry the Super Bowl in more than 130 countries and territories.