ABC will air a brief football-themed Wipeout special opposite NBC’s Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bruce Springsteen, and then come in with a full episode of Wipeout during NBC's showing of The Office right after the Super Bowl. That Wipeout will feature cheerleaders competing against male “couch potato” fans.

The two-part ABC special — dubbed “Wipeout Superball Sunday” — pulls out all the stops to cater to NFL fans: Hall of Famer Michael Irving will lend sideline commentary, the Navy’s Blue Angels will perform a flyover, the USC marching band will storm the course, contestants will run a gantlet with quarterbacks pelting them with footballs, NFL luminaries will stop by the commentary booth, and the show’s signature Big Balls obstacle has been converted into jumbo-sized footballs.

Hopefully these are Live Feed's misspellings; it's hard to believe that the NFL would think that "Michael Irving" would be running the "gantlet."

It's the first time in five years that a network has attempted to seriously compete against Super Bowl programming.

In 2002, NBC enjoyed some of Fox’s big game thunder by airing a special episode of the Endemol-produced “Fear Factor” featuring Playboy Playmates as contestants during halftime. “Fear Factor” siphoned off 11.4 million viewers. The family-friendly “Wipeout” could attract even more.

Of course all of this will pale in comparison to the ratings garnered by next week's Plaxico Burress Christmas Special.

ABC To 'Wipeout' The Super Bowl [The Live Feed]

"If anyone gives you 10,000 to 1 odds on anything, you take that bet. If John Mellencamp ever wins an Oscar, I will be one rich dude."

The odds on Baumgartner ever winning the American Century Championship are probably longer than that. But who cares? It's Kevin Malone!

Pam Beesley: Guys, my mom is coming in today and...
Kevin: MILF.
Pam Beesley: Thanks, Kevin.

That's my favorite Kevin line, so that's out of the way. Upon arriving in Tahoe, there was never any doubt as to who I would try to talk to first.

"I feel really lucky because I'm a huge fan of [The Office]; I feel its the best show on television, and I think we'll be around for awhile now," Baumgartner said. "I was a huge fan of the British version, yeah. I couldn't believe that we were gonna remake it. Really from the very beginning I knew that if people gave it a chance it was really something special."

Who would have thought that the Atlanta native who attended Holy Innocents' Episcopal School would one day be playing in a celebrity golf tournament while draped in blondes? (The women seem to love Kevin).

"A cult following; I don't know," Baumgartner said. "I've never had it before. I don't think I've ever even had a following before, so I guess I don't know the feeling. But it's pretty intense; people are really passionate about the show."

And what is Brian Baumgartner's analysis of Kevin Malone?

"You know, the thing about Kevin oddly enough, for all of his deviances, is that he kind of gets along with everybody. Like he'll kind of hang out with Dwight and go watch firecrackers or whatever, and he and Jim will do fantasy sports. Even he and Michael get along relatively well. I think he can sort of handle anybody."

So who would his three golf partners be?

"I guess it would be Pam, and, a couple of people who look like Pam."