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A few Chicken Littles suggest that this means the professional game is about to teeter into oblivion, that a lost year could translate into a league without fans. These are the same people who swear - swear! - that they will never fly Airline X again because a pilots' strike ruined their spring vacation. A couple of months later, they'll wander back if Airline X gives them a better price than Airline Y.
Sports fans - and people generally - are too jaded by work stoppages and the annoyance of strikes to take most of them seriously any more. Garbage pick-up affects your life; one less sports option on Thursday night does not. Quite wisely, the attitude in this case is, "I don't give a damn who 'wins.' Call me when it's over."
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Most fans of any sport these days are passive participants. They watch the games on TV (for free). They're in a (free, unless you're really bad at it) fantasy pool.
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For now, north of 49 fans will turn to hockey and those further south will concentrate on the NFL. Some of both may find solace in the college game. If the NBA season is lost, there's the Grey Cup and the Super Bowl and baseball and the Masters and hockey playoffs and Euro 2012 and Wimbledon and the Olympics and then hockey again.
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