Derek Jeter was in Los Angeles on Thursday night to accept his Legend Award at the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Awards, and he also got a healthy dose of slime for his achievements.

Derek Jeter was in Los Angeles on Thursday night to accept his Legend Award at the 2015 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Awards, and he also got a healthy dose of slime for his achievements.

But regular old slime would not do for "The Capitan," so Nick stepped it up a notch and dropped a golden slime on the recently retired Yankees shortstop.

The goop even sprayed from a gigantic light up Yankees symbol hanging above the stage, making this the classiest possible sliming, as befits a legend like Jeter.

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