NFL Slimetime
Genre	Sports
Written by	Shawn Robbins
Directed by	Bryan Kosowski Bob Matina Suzanne Smith
Presented by	Nate Burleson Dylan Gilmer
Starring	Dylan Schefter[1] George Johnston IV[2] Mia Burleson[3] Wolfgang Schaeffer
Voices of	Asher Bishop Bentley Griffin Ben Giroux Diana Zermeño Carolyn Lawrence
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	108
Production
Executive producers	Jana Blumenthal Ashley Kaplan[4] Paul J. Medford Shawn Robbins Luke Wahl
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	21 minutes
Production companies	CBS Sports Nickelodeon Productions
Original release
Network	Nickelodeon
Release	September 15, 2021 (2021-09-15) – present
Related
NFL on Nickelodeon

NFL Slimetime is an American weekly television sports show that premiered onNickelodeon on September 15, 2021. The show focuses on theNational Football League (NFL),^[5] and airs throughout the NFL season.^[6]

The fifth season ofNFL Slimetime premiered in September 2025, covering the2025 NFL season.

On September 10, 2021,ViacomCBS announced that it would air a weekly NFL series on Nickelodeon andParamount+,^[7]NFL Slimetime,^[8][9] hosted byNate Burleson^[10] and Dylan Gilmer^[11] (from the Nickelodeon seriesTyler Perry's Young Dylan).

On August 31, 2022, it was announced that the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on September 14, 2022.^[3]

On May 11, 2023, it was announced that the series was renewed for a third season, which premiered on September 6, 2023, along with the announcement of a secondChristmas game to air on Christmas Day 2023.^[12]

Nickelodeon teamed with CBS to produce the first Super Bowl alternate broadcast duringSuper Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024, billed asSuper Bowl LVIII: Live from Bikini Bottom. Two Super Bowl preview episodes were produced forNFL Slimetime to coincide with Nickelodeon's alternate broadcast.^[13] A fourth season of the series premiered on September 11, 2024.^[14]

NFL Slimetime features highlights and game footage that recaps the previous week's NFL action. Just like with Nickelodeon'sfirst live NFL telecast on January 10, 2021 (theNFC Wild Card playoff game between theChicago Bears andNew Orleans Saints), these highlights are flavored with digital,comic strip-like animation^[15] such as white smoke,green slime,^[16] and blue lightning. Players were givensuperimposedgoogly eyes^{[17][18][19][20]} andhamburger hats, with the best play of the week being featured in a segment called "Best Play Ever".^[21][22] Other recurring segments include Dylan Schefter^[23][24] (the daughter ofESPN NFL reporterAdam Schefter) interviewing one particular player each week and commentary by George Johnston IV^[25] in a segment called "George Knows Football".

For the2021 season,NFL Slimetime featured a "Fantasy Showdown" segment, where each week, a new celebrity challenged Burleson and Gilmer to a game offantasy football. For the2022 season, the "Fantasy Showdown" segment was replaced by "Celebrity Pick Party", keeping the same format as "Fantasy Showdown", but instead of picking players to form a team, the celebrity and Team Slimetime will pick winners from the different games each week. The weekly winner of "Celebrity Pick Party" reserved the right to wear the "Slime Chain", an oversizedNFL Slimetime logo studded in colored rhinestones. "Celebrity Pick Party" returned for the2023 season, but with a new format. This time, instead of a head-to-head matchup, Burleson and Gilmer, joined by the weekly celebrity guest picker, picked a game from the weekly lineup. Those who made a correct pick reserves the right to wear the "Slime Chain", while those who made an incorrect pick were slimed at the end of the show. In the event that everyone made a correct pick, a surprise sliming would occur.

Following Nickelodeon's first live NFL broadcast, the network brought back the NVP award for each episode, based on a player's performance the previous week and announced byLincoln Loud (voiced by Asher Bishop, then^[when?] Bentley Griffin, and portrayed by Wolfgang Schaeffer (fromThe Really Loud House^[a]) in Week 12 in 2021),^[26][27] the main protagonist ofThe Loud House. Starting with the Week 11 episode during the 2022 season, Lincoln Loud was replaced byNate Wright (voiced byBen Giroux), from the Paramount+ seriesBig Nate.^[28] Lincoln Loud briefly returned as the NVP announcer for the Pro Bowl, but using the same voice over as Week 4 and slightly changing the accompanying animation.^[29][30] Starting with the Week 1 episode from the 2024 season, Nate was replaced withDora Márquez (voiced by Diana Zermeño), from theDora reboot series. Starting with the Week 1 episode from the 2025 season, Dora was replaced withSandy Cheeks (voiced byCarolyn Lawrence) fromSpongeBob SquarePants.

Kyler Murray was the first winner of the weekly NVP.^[31] Other winners during the 2021 season have included the participating quarterbacks inSuper Bowl LV,Tom Brady^[32] andPatrick Mahomes,^[33] andJustin Tucker, whose record-setting 66-yardfield goal led theBaltimore Ravens to victory in Week 3.^[34]

• NFL on Nickelodeon

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