One of the voices on The Simpsons Funday Football may have sounded familiar, but he did not look like the man who graduated from Wayzata High School in 2015.
ESPN’s Drew Carter, a native of Plymouth, provided play-by-play for an alternate telecast of Monday Night Football featuring the characters from the Simpsons and animated NFL players playing a game in the Simpsons universe basically live. It was broadcast earlier this week on ESPN+, Disney+ and NFL+.
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