Sometimes it pays to open up random e-mails. Our friend Li’l Dice received one yesterday, then passed it along to us. The gist: a commercial for a cereal product is being filmed at Edison High School in Minneapolis today, tomorrow and Friday this week, roughly from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. each day. That wouldn’t be nearly as exciting if not for:

1) The makers of the commercial need extras to be a “crowd” that cheers people on. There’s no pay involved, but …
2) The people involved are an eclectic football bunch. Today’s players were reportedly Barry Sanders and Billy Johnson (White Shoes, we assume); tomorrow is Desmond Howard and Rod “He Hate Me” Smart; Friday is Ickey Woods and LeRoy Butler.

We drove past Edison right around 11:30 today after shooting the latest installment of Good Sports (it’s going to be awesome, by the way) and while we didn’t see any players, we did see cameras and other evidence that a commercial was being shot. So it does appear to be legit. Sadly, we will be out at the U.S. Open the next two days and won’t be able to investigate. If anyone has some free time and wants to do a guest post (and maybe even be in a commercial), we recommend you head over to Edison and give us a full report.

Either way: how great does this sound?

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