As the Steelers' first Super Bowl plays on a flat-screen TV in his tiny corner shop stacked with everything from T-shirts to trinkets, John Vazquez can't bring himself to think about the unthinkable.

"I'll be honest. It's like, you know, people don't talk about death. You know what I mean? You ask people and they don't want to think it could happen, that there could be absolutely no football," he said.

For some, a fall without Steelers football may be akin to death, at least in the existential sense. But it's a fate that may await them if the National Football League lockout continues to drag on through the spring and summer...............

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