NFL broadcasting has become a fascinating cottage industry, and there are few things more emblematic of that than Cleatus, the "NFL on Fox's" giant football-loving robot.

You may know him as the FOX Sports robot hype man who pops up during your favorite NFL football games. But when he’s off the clock, Cleatus is just like the rest of us!

Our buddies over at Kissing Suzy Kolber (HI MATT!) have been fascinated by Cleatus, FOX NFL Sunday’s guitar-thursting, Iron Man-fighting party robot, since before it was cool. He now has an ...

I feel like I know Cleatus the Football Robot so much better now after reading these wonderful stories below (I also contributed my own, humbly.) I had a difficult time choosing a favorite: I ...

Cleatus the Robot was introduced in 2007 and named by a viewer in a contest (any guesses as to what part of the country he is from!?!) and has been the official mascot of Fox NFL Sunday ever since ...

When the NFL on FOX gets introduced or kicks out to a commercial, an animated robot pops up on the side of the screen, typically exhibiting some football-player-ish behavior.

Fox will air a new promo for J.J. Abrams' futuristic robot-cop drama "Almost Human" during one of its NFL games this Sunday. It will feature a stare-down between "NFL on Fox" robot mascot Cleatus ...

As Cleatus descended the mountain top once again with the tablets a few note worthy dates literaly jumped off the calendar at me: The NFL is so powerfull that they get to rearrange the days of the ...

Broadcast booths throw it back to the studio for a preview of the halftime show all the time. That's nothing out of the ordinary. But Fox somehow found a new spin to put on it by having their ...