ESPN Hires The Muppets to Make Us Care About Sportball

We’re already thrilled about The Muppets returning to television; but now, ESPN is trying to employ The Muppets to make their fans care about things like “brackets” and “picks” and that game with the ball and the hoops and the fact that college kids play it.

ESPN and The Muppets released these videos starring Kermit, Miss Piggy, Statler and Waldorf, and Bunsen and Beaker to encourage us to take part in the ESPN Tournament Challenge:

And my personal favorite, this one starring Bunsen and Beaker, which features a really scientific way to choose sports teams:

Why, this is almost enough to get me to start caring about college basketball.

Almost.

(via Tough Pigs)
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Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.

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