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"  With the NFL lockout entering its second week, it&amp;#039;s not just players and coaches who are nervously anticipating the implications of an abbreviated or canceled football season. Industry analysts predict that a football-less fall could affect sales of everything from merchandise to video games to chicken wings. &amp;quot;We sell about 3 million pounds of wings a week,&amp;quot; Joe Sanderson Jr., CEO of Sanderson Farms, the nation&amp;#039;s fourth largest poultry company, told ABC News. &amp;quot;And a lot of those wings go to sports bars.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;If we don&amp;#039;t have Sunday football, the demand will go down tremendously, and of course, if that happens, the price will go down,&amp;quot; said Sanderson. More from Delish: The Hottest Buffalo Wings Money Can Buy Wings are so tied to football that at the beginning of the year, the National Chicken Council estimated that of the 13.5 billion wings predicted to be sold in 2011, about 9% would be consumed during Super Bowl weekend alone. A decline in wings sales would not just be felt by the poultry industry. Analysts predict that restaurants that cater to sports fans would feel the hit as well. The chain Buffalo Wild Wings, which lures in customers with a variety of fantasy football and game day promotions throughout the season, is among those that experts are watching. Industry analyst David Tarantino told Nation&amp;#039;s Restaurant News that there was some risk that cancelling regular season games would reduce Buffalo Wild Wings weekly sales by as much as 15%, though long term profits would be relatively unaffected. More from Delish: 7 Must-Try Hot Wings Still, the loss in revenue would be enough to cost chicken producers big bucks. &amp;quot;With the wholesale price of chicken wings going for about $1 a pound, it could cost the industry as much as $10 million a week,&amp;quot; Richard Lobb, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, told the New York Post. Now we wonder what the effect will be on the blue-cheese dressing and celery stick markets? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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