We turned on the NBC Pregame show about half an hour ago.  So far, we’ve seen:

 – Interview with Bruce Springsteen
 – Rainn Wilson pimping the Office with Al Roker
 – Four stars from Fast & Furious pimping their movie (if you want to call it that–the girls just stood there while Vin Deisel and Paul Walker attempted to make sense)
 – Andrea Kremer actually interviewed a football player–Troy Polamalu–but it was about his hair
 – Conan O’Brien making a fool of himself with some dumb kicking gags
 – CNBC stock updates (along with gratuitous pimping of NBC selling ads for the Super Bowl at $100,000 per second)
 – And finally, one actual football clip, where Cris Collinsworth was working on the field with a player (didn’t see who).

This is what the Super Bowl pregame show has become–all about the entertainment, nothing about football.  It’s sad, and frankly pathetic–and I can’t believe Bob Costas is as willing as he appears to be to participate.

Add to that the Today Show, which broadcast from the stadium this morning (and had more relevant information, in some ways–at least they covered the Taste of the NFL party), and the non-stop pimping of their interview with Obama–which also makes little sense to me, other than our new president seems to like to be on TV whenever possible, and I’m not sure I’m going to stomach another two and a half hours of this drivel…

**UPDATE** Costas actually did an interesting interview with Roger Goodell–wow, actual talk about football!  Of course, it was only a portion of the interview–the whole interview is on their Web site, along with a bunch of other football related content…