41.   Just when NFL teams are gearing up to be at their best, the NFL pregame shows should be doing the same.

42.   Maybe it starts Sunday, just surviving the Fox pregame show.

43.   Musburger talked this week about the first time he considered the prospect of a two-hour pregame show.

44.   Network pregame shows plumbing the program.

45.   NBC also will tap reporters Jim Gray and Will McDonough for the pregame show.

46.   Not even the pregame show that starts a half-hour before the ones on Fox or NBC.

47.   Not only will each game be preceded by a half hour pregame show.

48.   Oddly, both networks saw ratings for its pregame shows rise.

49.   Paul Sunderland, host of the Lakers pregame show on Fox, will handle play-by-play duties until Hearn returns.

50.   Pregame shows matter not only for programming but for advertising revenue, nationally as well as locally.