"Ray Lewis says lock up your children, bring in the livestock and hide your valuables. Without the NFL this fall, the United States of America will soon slide into total chaos.

"Watch how much evil -- which we call it crime -- watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game," the Baltimore Ravens linebacker told ESPN. "There's nothing else to do."

It's an interesting comment. Lewis isn't saying NFL players will cause trouble given idle time. He's saying NFL-industry workers idled by the lockout and fans without an outlet for violence will release their own bedlam onto the public.

Instead of peaceful Sundays when everyone's watching football games, Lewis says evil will return to the land. Sounds like Stephen King's thriller "Under the Dome." Arnold Schwarzenegger does have some free time to star as a robofan on a rampage.

And just think what will happen in Las Vegas without football betting. All those gamblers with nothing to do can't be good. They might have to get real jobs.

Monday nights will mean watching Ashton Kutcher in "Two and a Half Men." That lets the trolls win, says Charlie Sheen.

Lewis is a violent player who has never lost his sense of the streets. He's right about football filling the same needs that gladiators delivered in the Roman Coliseum. And Lewis has a small point about unemployed workers frustrated over being caught in this senseless lockout could do something drastic. But they're no more inclined to create chaos than anyone else who has lost their job during the recession.

Some fans transfer their aggression through watching football, but it's not like some 150-pound accountant suddenly becomes a serial killer because the NFL isn't playing."