{"id":162827,"date":"2025-06-27T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/162827\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T14:50:43","slug":"chargers-texans-wild-card-game-to-be-on-nickelodeon-telecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/162827\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers-Texans Wild Card Game to be on Nickelodeon Telecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Harbaugh, meet SpongeBob SquarePants.<\/p>\n<p>Nickelodeon and CBS Sports announced Monday morning that <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chargers.com\/news\/texans-afc-wild-card-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Chargers-Texans Wild Card matchup<\/a> will be a slime-filled alternate telecast on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The game will air on CBS Sports as part of Nickelodeon&#8217;s NFL Wild Card Game Live from Bikini Bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The matchup can also be streamed on NFL+, Paramount+, the CBS Sports app and other NFL digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports analyst Nate Burleson will lead the call alongside SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star, as Sandy Cheeks and NFL Slimetime&#8217;s Dylan Schefter giving live sideline updates. Dora the Explorer will provide analysis of rules and penalty calls.<\/p>\n<p>Other Paramount\/Nickelodeon stars scheduled to appear include Megatron and Optimus Prime; Arnold and Helga; Cat and Dog; Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Shadow; and Reptar, Chuckie and Tommy.<\/p>\n<p>And get ready for plenty of slime, the green goo that Nickelodeon is known for.<\/p>\n<p>Fans can can before and during the game for the NVP award.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the sixth collaboration on an NFL game from Nickelodeon and third on Wild Card Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Nickelodeon&#8217;s NFL Wild Card Game Live from Bikini Bottom will be streamed on mobile devices with NFL+. CBS Sports&#8217; telecast will also be streamed across digital devices via Paramount+, the CBS Sports app and NFL digital properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Harbaugh, meet SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon and CBS Sports announced Monday morning that the Chargers-Texans Wild Card matchup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2056],"tags":[37,7,38,221,253,2368,6,222],"class_list":{"0":"post-162827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-texans","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-homepage-headlines","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-texans","13":"tag-houstontexans","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114755890477620114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}