Chicken Quarterbacks? Chicken Race Car Drivers? Why Do Chickens Need Helmets?

Since this is from a catalog, I must assume that this is no spoof. So…what have we here? I appears to be a chicken in a helmet, but wait- You can collect all these great and “unique” designs! (like poke’mon?) A gaily assorted selection for a device that I’m pretty sure the chicken has no use for. And a wide selection it is!

My question (and you may have a different one -and if so… Bravo!) is…”why?” Is there a burgeoning semi pro chicken football league? Why else would they need a helmet? I mean…I’ve heard rumors, but I didn’t think there could ever be a really good chicken quarterback! No “Plymouth Rock” Tom Brady or a “Rhode Island Red” Drew Brees! Or are chickens now competing in Chicken Grand Prix style racing! It doesn’t look like that’s a”sport” (like golf!) until you consider the stresses on the (human) body while racing a car at 200 mph on an undulating track. Chickens’ racing? Chickens aren’t built for stress. They’d be “Tum Pluckered” out in no time! Maybe there is a breed of really clumsy chickens, that I never heard of, that these are intended for…?

And then- And I was waiting for this- what sort of catalog was I looking when I ran across this? Well, I’ll say this: I was doing research for a strory. … (looks both ways and leans in conspiratorily) “Stay tuned”!

About Zaslow Crane

Zaslow Crane wrote his first Science fiction story when he was 11 This was after an uncle had given him a Charmin case full of sci fi paperbacks- all the old masters: A.E.Van Vogt, Cordwainer Smith, Heinlen, Bradbury, and dozens more. After that, he never looked back. Zaslow Crane has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers over many years, and has been a contributing editor for a national magazine. He has been published a couple hundred times for non fiction. Regarding fiction, he writes primarily SciFi and was one of the creative talents behind Smoke and Mirrors, a parsec nominated podcast that "re-imagined" the Twilight Zone and, which ran for 2 1/2 years. He has written over two hundred short stories, 7 or 8 novellas and two novels, one of which "explains" a great many advancements in human technology. He likes mindless sort of work, because it frees that other part of his brain to work on story ideas, so if you see him, say, digging a ditch, you'll know that he’s really writing. He lives in a tiny house on a hill in Central California. His home overlooks the ocean - IF you're willing to stand on tip toes and crane your neck. Just a bit.