As if having seven talking heads on its "Football Night in America" broadcast each NFL Sunday wasn't enough, NBC is reportedly going to have 21 people involved in the pregame and game coverage of Super Bowl XLIII. What!?

That's nearly as many people as will be on the field for the actual game. Well, I guess when you basically have to fill a major network with an entire day's worth of programming, you need to keep things fresh by rotating personalities. But 21 people? That just seems excessive.

NBC's Super Bowl coverage begins at 9 a.m. ET with the "Today" show and continues throughout the day, with kickoff scheduled for around 6:20 p.m. ET. The actual pregame show gets underway at 1 p.m. ET.

One interesting sidenote: Sunday will be the 11th time that John Madden has been in the broadcast booth for a Super Bowl. It will also be the fourth different network that he has called the big game on, the others being CBS, FOX and ABC.