Orlando, Fla. ? America loves to super-size everything.

Burgers, burritos, soft drinks. Give us the Burritozilla five-pound burrito, and let’s chase it down with a 32-ounce Big Gulp, while we watch the NFL bloat into a big fat mess before our eyes.

What’s the fun of 16 games when you can play 18?

It’s a hot topic in the NFL these days, much like the buzz about Matt Leinart changing his Facebook status to “unemployed.”

Although the possibility of expanding the regular season has been officially tabled, the subject still has plenty of hang time.

Commissioner Roger Goodell and his ownership group, apparently not content with having one of the most popular sports on the planet, are risking more than overexposure by tinkering with a 16-game season that has been in play since 1978.

Do we need to explain why? It’s a money grab, a way of squeezing more money out of TV and cable contracts and advertisers.

Players detest the thought of expanding the season because they want to be able to walk upright for the rest of their lives after they retire.

Playing a violent game has its downside. We see NFL players as indestructible when they roll into our living room every Sunday afternoon in high-def. But mitigating pain is what the players do for a living.

The NFL doesn’t like anybody peeking into its medicine cabinet.

It’s a collection of painkillers, anti-inflammatories, cortisone shots, maybe something more potent like HGH, anything to get you through another day, as your body breaks down piece by piece.

Former New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms once said that each NFL team would need about 250 players to make it through a season if only healthy, nonmedicated players were allowed to compete.

Linebacker Darryl Talley played 12 seasons with the Buffalo Bills during their heyday when they made four Super Bowl runs, and played two more seasons with other teams before retiring in 1997. He came out of it with 14 surgeries, chronic pain and numbness on some days.

“Some days you feel like 25,” he said. “Some days feel like you are 95 … but that’s the price you pay playing the game. You have to pay the price sooner or later.’

I understand this sounds like a great deal for fans. Most everybody hates watching four exhibition games. Cutting those scrums in half makes sense only if you are in the stands paying top dollar for meaningless games. NFL teams include those exhibitions in the season-ticket package, so there are no a la carte deals that allow fans to opt out.

But players do not have a choice to stay home. More snaps equal more potential mayhem and greater chances of getting hurt. Tampa Bay Bucs center Jeff Faine took a total of 25 snaps in two of the Bucs’ preseason games. He will get between 60-65 snaps a game in the regular season.

“There’s no comparison (to a regular-season game),” Faine said. “You’re knocking years off careers playing those extra games. It’s a long season already, and the guys making those decisions don’t take those bumps and bruises.”

The NFL Players’ Association should refuse to cave in. You don’t sell out your constituents. You hold firm. You tell those owners and the myopic commish that this issue is not negotiable.

“We’re not automobiles,” Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said. “We’re not machines. We’re humans.”

He’s not lying. Check their medicine cabinets and you’ll understand.