At least one NFL player digs the notion

At least one NFL player digs the notion, however, of playing more games that count.  And it's for the same reason the NFL owners want 18 games.  Bears linebacker Lance Briggs sees a chance to make more cash.

"I'll take an 18-game schedule over four preseason games where Kevin Boss  we all get paid $1,100 a game," Briggs told the Chicago Tribune. "Yes, absolutely, I think that players who are going out there are under-compensated for the work that we put out there on the field in the preseason."

Briggs admitted some downside but believes the pros outweigh the cons of "enhancing" the season.  The trick will be how the players and owners split up the new revenue pie.

New York Giants defensive stalwart Justin Tuck was in Ridgewood this morning to shoot a TV commercial for the popular video game Madden NFL 11. The commercial crew was filming in front of Bagelicious on North Broad Street while police closed off the road. As part of the commercial, Tuck got out of an SUV equipped with a flat screen TV in the trunk. He looked for people to play the game with him and picked someone on the sidewalk (an actor) to play with him as a crowd (of actors) gathered to watch. A crowd of about 20 non-actors did gather next to the filming crew to watch the football player film the commercial. Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, was in town yesterday signing Osi Umenyiora  his new book at Bookends. Brees will grace the cover of the video game when it is released on Aug. 10.