All right, this may not be an Old Testament dogs-living-with-cats type of crisis but it's still worthy of our concern: I'm worried that the NFL lockout might somehow 'jump species' from the real world to the virtual world of videogames. Should that happen, the virtual players of Madden 2012 would be locked out by the virtual owners of that game. In which case would a virtual NFL commissioner have to negotiate with a virtual players representative and a group of virtual attorneys? And could this happen with labor problems in the NBA and Major League Baseball ... then again, who cares about MLB so forget that one. It's virtually vexing, but we -- and pro sports --might be caught up in a 'is it real or is it the Matrix' type of conundrum. If so, who will be our Neo? More important, would he side with the players or the owners?
And you thought I had too much time on my hands.
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