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What in Jeebus' name is going on in the NBC Tonight Show soap opera? Just a few months ago, NBC unveiled its grand plan to move Jay Leno up to prime time (a total money saving measure) while Conan O'Brien took over the Tonight Show and Jimmy Fallon took Conan's old late night spot.

Fast forward to the present and suddenly it's an NBC late night apocalypse. NBC is forcing Leno to move and wants to shove everyone back to accommodate him. Conan doesn't want the Tonight Show to be moved out of the slot that it's had for decades and Fallon doesn't want to be stuck with the late night infomercials. NBC execs are forcing the hand and no one knows what is going to happen even tomorrow.

All we know is that nobody is happy. Leno and O'Brien have spent their opening monologues crushing NBC, Conan put his show on Craig's List (to find an owner) and Kenneth the Page (a reoccurring character on Conan's show) walked in on the show during a fake tour and introduced Conan's studio as "former home of the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien."

Meanwhile, Jay Leno actually invited late night rival Jimmy Kimmel on his show to answer his "10 at 10" questions. The result was a Leno ass kicking:



Surely Leno expected that kind of treatment. He wanted to scorch the earth with NBC about the ridiculous decisions being made and Kimmel was happy to oblige.

Meanwhile, the person having the most fun with this idiocy is Dave Letterman. After being spurned by NBC for the Tonight Show years ago, he can sit back and have a grand ole time with the current events:



It's all so stupid that I can only come to one conclusion:

Al Davis secretly owns NBC.

It all makes too much sense. NBC gave out new head jobs and now don't like the decision only months into it. Nothing has been done yet probably because NBC is looking to fire O'Brien and Leno "with cause". There is no sense of teamwork and every decision made seems to be exponentially worse than the bad decision before it. If NBC gets prickly toward former Raider Rich Gannon, I'll have to suggest that they move their headquarters to Oakland.

Tune in to SportsPants to find out if the NBC peacock suddenly changes its feathers to silver and black and wears an eye-patch.

And good luck to Leno and especially O'Brien. That guy is too talented to by thrown to the curb.

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