Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV, Fox revealed that they’d be debuting a new NFL on Fox graphics package. It turns out that involves quite a few changes, from a centered and italicized scorebug to larger fonts (similar to a change ESPN made for Monday Night Football in 2018; MNF has also been somewhat italicized for a while, but went even further that way in 2018) to cartoon graphics for several key players.
Here’s a look at the old package Fox used for the NFC championship game two weekends ago:
And here’s what they used Sunday:
This also saw changes to the touchdown graphics. Here’s the old one:
And here’s the new one:
The cartoons seen there were also used for several players throughout:
But not for all of them:
Tevin Coleman: headshot!
LeSean McCoy: cartoon? pic.twitter.com/IVF8r5fLfC— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 2, 2020
And even the announcer introduction graphic was changed:
Compared to this season. pic.twitter.com/5kMoOipsDm
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 2, 2020
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— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 2, 2020