An 'American Idol' Super Bowl - Seacrest Talks, Paula Lip-Syncs

Raise your hand if you actually watch the Super Bowl pre-game show. That's what I thought. Not very many of you. The ratings say you do watch, however. Always, when the TV ratings for Super Bowl week come out, the pre-game show is usually the number two program of the week. I am completely convinced that these ratings do not reflect the actual viewership. At Super Bowl parties around the country, at bars around the country, anywhere the Super Bowl is being watched, the pre-game show is simply put on the television while everyone waits for the actual game. No one actually watches it – it's just on. The fact that it's four hours long and every conceivable issue regarding the game has been covered from every possible angle over the past two weeks is enough to make even the biggest football fans disinterested. This is why FOX's decision to add a red carpet to the pre-game show this year, with American Idol's Ryan Seacrest presiding over it, was largely ignored. The pre-game show had a very American Idol feel to it today, but I don't feel like anyone really cares one way or the other because, as I said, no one really watches it anyway. If you did watch it earlier today, however, then you know that Seacrest interviewed a few celebrities and FOX aired the video for Paula Abdul's first single in over a decade. It went about as well as could be expected.

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