Quiz: NFL Strike or Government Shutdown?

Q. The wealthiest professional of which organization—the NFL or national government—has a net worth of more than $150 million?

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A. Government. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has an estimated net worth of at least $156 million. As far as the highest net worth for a pro footballer, your guess is as good as ours, but Peyton Manning was the top-paid last year, with a $15.8 million guaranteed salary.

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Q: Which shutdown would boost the pizza industry?

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A. Government shutdown. The 1995 shutdown boosted the business of a local D.C. pizza eatery thanks to the needs of overworked congressional staffers.

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Q. Which side said it: “Their position basically has been ‘take it or leave it’”?

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A. NFL, by John Mara, co-owner of the New York Giants, who has criticized the NFLPA for refusing to budge at the bargaining table.

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Q. Which shutdown would affect approximately 115,000 workers?

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A. NFL Strike. The government shutdown would affect as many as hundreds of thousands of workers—though a precise estimate is impossible to glean.

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Q. Which organization’s last strike lasted precisely 24 days?

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A. NFL. Its 1987 strike lasted two-dozen days. The last government shutdown, in 1995, lasted 21 days.

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Q. Which side said it: “I’m saying I don’t think that’s even a likelihood and that there would be some need for a bridge to get there, but the bottom line is, we don’t have a deal.”

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A. Government, by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor regarding the chances that a funding deal could be reached by the end of the week.

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Q: Which shutdown would cost approximately $46 million per day?

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A: NFL strike. Each of the 32 national football teams could reportedly lose $160 million, which boils down to about $46 million a day for the league for each of the 112 days of play in the season. What’s the comparative cost at stake in a government shutdown? Around $90 million per day, based on an inflation-adjusted calculation of the $1.4 billion lost during the shutdown in 1995.

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Q. Which side said it: “Which one of you would ever advise your children to make a billion-dollar decision without rudimentary financial disclosure?”

Quiz: NFL Strike or Government Shutdown?

A government shutdown looms and the NFL is locked in a labor dispute. But which conflict costs the most? And which has the most bitterly embattled players?