Jeff Garcia's Super Bowl party just got a lot sexier.

In news about shows that my girlfriend tries to get me to watch, the Fox Network has made it clear that Glee will be its prime show next season, which is great news for girls and their effeminate guy friends. However, in a somewhat bizarre broadcasting decision, Fox executives have given Glee the highly-coveted 60-minute spot after the Super Bowl, which normally goes to American Idol. Thankfully, 99.7 percent of men watching the Super Bowl will be too drunk to realize that their sons are singing along to a Josh Groban medley.

Glee is a polarizing show, in that it’s for girls and men… who appreciate theater and dance. I can’t imagine that Fox really expects the typical NFL fan to get all Gleeked up, as much as they’re just positioning themselves to completely dominate that Sunday’s programming. However, it just doesn’t feel right. Sort of like that time that we had to share bunks at Bible camp.

Show me some jazz hands, E! Online:

Fox announced their 2010-2011 schedule bright and early Monday morning, and, as expected, they’re going for the gold with Glee. Those musical badasses not only secured a solid time slot, they also booked the 60 minutes all shows dream of—the hour following the Super Bowl.

As if this news wasn’t making the vein in my forehead pulsate enough, the writer goes on to use: “Holler!” Look, I understand what the Fox brass is trying to do and maybe I’m just mad that they never gave Arrested Development this kind of push, or maybe I’m just irritated that ever since the Janet Jackson nip slip the Super Bowl’s been so watered down that it might as well have a vortex tip.

I’m a traditional guy, and I want to watch standard dude television programs following the Super Bowl. I want to see shows with names like “Alligator Wrestling on Crystal Meth” or “Stripper Pillow Fights” or “Motorcycle Dragon Warrior.” It’s decisions like this that will eventually replace Bud Light with Bartles & James in Super Bowl advertising dominance. Then again, the music on Glee is still 10 times more relevant than the halftime performers.

So there’s that show that nobody’s talking about, “Shaq Vs.”, where Shaq challenges other famous athletes in their respective sports. Yeah, supposedly Shaquille O’Neal stole that idea. Which is amazing. I guess this is why they call him the “Man of Steal.” Somebody took his clever pills this morning.

Todd Gallagher alleges William Morris Endeavor Entertainment — the agency repping Todd — approached him to turn his book “Andy Roddick Beat Me with a Frying Pan” into a TV show sometime last year … then hijacked his idea and turned it into “Shaq Vs.”

Todd’s book was based on him competing against professional athletes who agreed to play with handicaps — such as Roddick using a frying pan instead of a tennis racket. via.

Shaq’s camp has not commented. One time I was in the park with this woman and she told me about her “dream date,” and when she broke up with me I asked out her best friend and then did everything on that dream date with her. And then she calls me later that night sobbing about how I could do that do her. I said the only thing she told me to say in a spot like that. “Sorry, Mom.” Oh, man. That one kills my psychiatrist every time.

Here’s future Detroit Lion (?) Matthew Stafford making an appearance on Late Night with That Little Turd That Used To Be On SNL, courtesy of Sportscrack. Stafford gets conned into throwing balls at airborne plates with targets drawn on them, and I couldn’t be more impressed that dude actually throws a mean ball while wearing a sport coat, which, despite the name, is not sporty at all. That attribute might come in handy, because if the mental midgets running the Lions actually do reinvent their uniform scheme this season, there’s no telling what they’ll roll out…

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I had stopped covering which athletes were on whichever new season of “Dancing with the Stars” was about to happen, but then ABC released the promo photos of Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson with her partner, That Guy Who Dances.

Anyhoo, the other athletes on the forthcoming season are Lawrence Taylor and pro bull-rider Ty Murray.  Murray will compete against his wife, pro Ty Murray-rider Jewel.  Don’t expect to hear about this again on With Leather, I barely stayed awake writing this.  Although the ether could be partially to blame for that.

[Don Chavez]

Long before the NBA created its “Where [Stuff] Happens” campaign, its promotional ads were various famous people saying “I Love This Game.”  No, really.  Some marketing executive got paid thousands of dollars to think of “I love this game.”

In this 1992 spot, The McLaughlin Group pretends to care about the NBA.  How exactly this was supposed to gain viewers or improve the NBA’s reputation, I’m not sure.  “Well, if white stiffs who yell about politics like basketball, it MUST be good!”

[The Sporting Blog]

If America needs two things right now, it’s more reality TV shows about the Dallas Cowboys and more attention for Terrell Owens.  Oh hey, wouldja look at that.  T.O. is getting his own reality TV show.  **jams scissors into eyes**

The Dallas Cowboys’ controversial wide receiver will star in his own show on VH1 this summer, giving fans a look into his life off the field.

VH1 announced Monday that the series takes place in the offseason, and T.O.’s best friends and publicists — Monique Jackson and Kita Williams — will help him re-examine his personal life. The two will work as “matchmakers and therapists” for Owens.

Matchmakers.  Good call.  If there’s anything I’ve learned from watching reality shows, it’s that they’re the most reliable way for people to find lasting love.

An insider tells me the show will be called “Playing the Field with Terrell Owens” and will last 8 episodes.  Eight long, grueling episodes that will make the NFL’s off-season feel even longer.  Can’t wait!