RADIO

Several radio stations and syndicators have tackled the NFL strike with song parodies, USA Today reports. Among them: the American Comedy Network’s “Picket Line Shuffle,” with the owners’ lyric: “We’ll play with scabs and a make a bundle/while you’re stuck doing the picket-line shuffle, and “I’m Mad,” per Michael Jackson’s “Bad,” with the lyric “Owners have my money, but players won’t play the game/And now I’m mad. . . .”Locallly, it’s a newly

rewritten version of “My Boyfriend’s Back”, produced by John Frost at KROQ-FM(106.7). Sample: “My boyfriend’s back cuz there isn’t any football/hey nah,hey nah, my boyfriend’s back. . .”