We regret to inform you that chicken-wing suppliers are now whining about NFL protests
In news far more unsettling than Papa John making an ass of himself on TV simply because it’s harder to pin on one specific chain, Bloomberg reports (via Fortune) that one of America’s biggest poultry producers, Sanderson Farms, is joining the shitty-pizza giant in “wondering aloud” whether NFL players taking a knee to protest racism and police brutality is responsible for a recent slump in chicken wing prices. “It’s just been reported to us that some of our customers think that their traffic is down because of the demonstrations by some of the NFL players,” Sanderson Farms CEO Joe F. Sanderson Jr. says, which is a very tactful way of saying that his company has gotten some unhinged calls in recent weeks from chicken farmers who presumably also have strong views on former President Obama’s ancestry and religious affiliation.