OK, K.O.: You live by the pun, you die by the missing piece of information

We only get to watch NBC's "Football Night in America" on Channel 4 on the occasional chance that we're not glued to the mess that is "Fox 11 Overtime" on Channel 11 hosted by the really nice girl with the sleveless little red dress who really can't keep up with the teleprompter. ... yes, Liz Habib ... as cute as a button ... wearing the black pumps and showing off the legs under the desk ... really trying hard ... but in need of a lobster bib as she's doing the highlights ...

(Brief example: She's chatting with Curtis Conway in the studio about college football: "You were up at USC-Stanford yesterday ... USC facing their first loss of the season ... what happened to them?" The clip is of USC-Cal. Does she mean USC ... or UCLA? She meant UCLA ... but now they're on a clip of USC-Cal ... now she wants to talk about the Kings' loss ... but first, you have to answer some NFL trivia to get 4 Kings' tickets to an upcoming game ... wait, throw it to the newsroom for new pictures on the fire out in Wrightwood ...)

At least she's trying ...

Over on Channel 4, waiting for the Chargers-Steelers game, and all the Bob Costas interviews that seem to go nowhere but are really a chance for him to chat nicely with each team's QB and avoid anything really controversial, there's the interspersed clips of that day's NFL games with Keith Olbermann trying to spin them in his own special KO way.

Here's Jets-Saints, and KO, who admitted earlier he was out of puns while trying to give information about ... we're not even sure what game it was anymore, but we had to wait for the graphic to get the final score ... is doing the set-up by noting that Jets coach Rex Ryan is wearing a different cap.

"He's wearing a pink brim on the occasion of breast awareness month ...."

Uh...

"Breast cancer awareness month ...."

Ifyousaythecorrectionfastenough, maybenoonewillnotice.

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UPDATE MONDAY 10 AM: We won't just pick on Olbermann ... But since we didn't see this and now only read about it Monday AM (thanks to Deadspin.com):

Thanks, Boomer, for finding your way to this. The clip isn't hard to find if you do a search of "Chris Berman breast awareness."

Again, that's the kind of stuff that just has to drive the viewer (or at least this one) nuts. My teeth already hurt from watching KO and Dan Patrick cute their way in old ESPN "SportsCenter" style through the highlights, but trip-ups like that only expose that maybe too much time is devoted to the mind-trick fluff and not enough to the bare essentials.

Or, in this case, maybe too much bare was essential to KO's and Berman's Fruedian slip.

Or maybe they were just watching Liz Habib do her NFL highlight show like the rest of us and got ....

uh....

distracted. Yeah, distracted.