This Sunday’s upcoming game between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders will be broadcast live in 3D…and IN SPACE!

Actually, according to the Wall Street Journal, the broadcast will be shown in three theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston. In attendance will be mainly suits from the NFL broadcasting partners and consumer electronics companies.

The game is being shot with special cameras by 3ality Digital LLC, which bogarted that company name after Speed III was shelved in 1999.

This isn’t the first time the NFL has participated in a 3-D experiment. In 2004, a predecessor company to 3ality filmed the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers. When Sandy Climan, 3ality’s chief executive officer, shows the footage, “people crouch down to catch the ball,” he says. “It’s as if the ball is coming into your arms.”

Personally, I haven’t been this jazzed about the third dimension since KISS released a music video in 3D off Psycho Circus. Also, can I be so bold as to predict that football in 4D is right around the corner? (Universal Studios has had 4D rides for years. So don’t go on Twister unless you want to get positively soaked). It’d go like this…bubble screen to Welker, Polamalu reads it perfectly! Next thing you know you’re riding the Human Touch massage chair from the Sharper Image store in the seventh layer of hell.

Kind of a throwaway sentence, but the WSJ article also notes that you’ll still have to wear the geeky blue/red cardboard comfort lenses.