Although I hope fervently for a different outcome, you may want to set your Tivo's for this coming Saturday night's SNL. It promises to be a train wreck of mythic proportion. Peyton Manning will be guest host. ... yes ... Peyton Manning.

Peyton Manning hosting a comedy show? Peyton Manning in LIVE comedy skits? This will almost surely be as painful as the Chris Evert "event" on SNL. Sure, athletes can make good hosts - Andrew Roddick was GREAT. But it's very rare that they do more than slide through (or worse).

The writers most definitely have their hands full this week. Hopefully it will be loaded with self-deprecating stuff - that's about all he'll be able to pull off (bedroom scene with frenetic audibles, and maybe a cameo from Tom Moore). Maybe he'll revive Will Ferrell's "man who can't modulate his voice" character. I'm sure there will be lame stuff featuring his appearance in nearly 1/4 of all advertisements that run during an NFL game.

It's gonna be a wince-fest.