The NFL and its players agreed to extend their collective bargaining agreement by 24 hours yesterday, making midnight tonight the new zero hour for the football apocalypse. NFL kommisar Roger Goodell has been whining for months about what a bad deal this had been for the owners, but I guess it’s still good enough to extend by a day. But El Roge will have more to complain about soon if the league’s most famous players decide to sue the league.

If the NFLPA eventually decertifies and enters antitrust litigation with the NFL, it will form ranks behind arguably its three premier field generals.

According to multiple outlets, including NFL Network and ESPN, QBs Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning would be the union’s lead plaintiffs in any kind of antitrust suit.

–Game On!

People will sit on pins and needles for the rest of the day, but here’s what will happen: Jeff Pash will drop a taco and it’ll be the third lead story on ESPN. Then there might be another extension so talks can break down during the weekend when fewer people are paying attention. Maybe it won’t happen exactly like that, but we will have a lockout. What’s a lockout? Think about Indonesian kids making Nikes for 12 hours a day. It’s almost the opposite of that.

The McCann Ad Agency in Mumbai recently released the above ad for Shivam handloom deep sleep mattresses, which shows a sleeping Tiger Woods dreaming of a bevy of provocatively dressed white women. There’s also an unconscious cameraman, which references Tiger hitting cameraman Mark Pain in the face with a chip shot at the 2010 Ryder Cup (which also gave us this famous image).

But this isn’t the first time that Tiger’s likeness has been used in clever marketing campaigns. Last year, PETA tried to capitalize on his sex scandal with a billboard emphasizing the importance of spaying and neutering pets near his home in Windermere, Florida. While that campaign was scrapped at the request of Tiger’s lawyers, a few others, including Shivam’s mattress ad, have made their way into the mainstream.

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