Perhaps it has something to do with the miscellany of avian mascots scattered throughout the National Football League, but the labor dispute between owners and players has given rise to a flock of bird-happy metaphors. Sportswriters characterize the deadlock as a doomed game of chicken while agents decry the killing of what amounts to an $8 billion golden goose.
For millions of NFL fans, a more far-reaching assessment might necessitate the phrase “dead duck.” A new study from Optimum Sports finds 84 percent of die-hard NFL fans said they’d be unsettled by a loss of Sunday football, and 21 percent warned that they’d go so far as to boycott the league altogether once play resumes.
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