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NFL Spins Blackouts As Good For "Fan Experience"

How many teams have problems selling out games? I know the Dolphins and Bills are on that list. What are the others? On the other extreme, you'll need deep pockets trying to score a ticket to a Giants, Jets, or Pats game.
 
You mean like my "fan experience" of attending Detroit Lions games in a half-empty Pontiac
Silverdome where I scalped the ticket for under ten bucks and where my fellow fans seemed
as resigned to losing as they were to death and taxes? And where if the opposing team came
from a city within driving distance they outnumbered Lions fans 2:1?
 
Oh, the Dolphins always sell out.....as long as WFOR-TV or maybe WSVN foot the bill! :)

cd
 
ixnay said:
DToTheJ said:
If your local NFL team sucks on ice
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What do you mean by "on ice"?
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If the team has done really bad that season -- such as one season when the Detroit Lions lost every game that season.

It also implies that the NFL team does bad at every sport, including hockey.

ansky212 said:
How many teams have problems selling out games? I know the Dolphins and Bills are on that list. What are the others? On the other extreme, you'll need deep pockets trying to score a ticket to a Giants, Jets, or Pats game.
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There's also the Tampa Bay Bucs, in which all of their 2010 and most of their 2011 home games were blacked out.
 
I do not see how the NFL can blackout a game in a city that is being played in a stadium in that city that was paid for by the taxpayers of that city.
 
ixnay said:
DToTheJ said:
If your local NFL team sucks on ice
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What do you mean by "on ice"?

ixnay
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I don't know for sure but the poster may have been emulating Ed McMahon's statement in the movie "Fun With Dick and Jane". At the beginning of the movie Ed's character is firing a subordinate while obviously overindulging in cheap scotch and admonishes the air defense industry in which they work as "sucking on ice" (presumably referring to the ice he is pouring into his scotch glass).
 
trapper12 said:
I do not see how the NFL can blackout a game in a city that is being played in a stadium in that city that was paid for by the taxpayers of that city.
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Not to mention the cost of the ticket, parking, food, etc. that prevents most average people from attending a game (in any sport for that matter).
 
ansky212 said:
How many teams have problems selling out games? I know the Dolphins and Bills are on that list. What are the others? On the other extreme, you'll need deep pockets trying to score a ticket to a Giants, Jets, or Pats game.
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Don't forget the hardest ticket to get:

Packers.

You literally have to sell your newborn just for one ticket.

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trapper12 said:
I do not see how the NFL can blackout a game in a city that is being played in a stadium in that city that was paid for by the taxpayers of that city.
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And for that reason, the Florida legislature is trying to pass a law that would prohibit blackouts of sporting events at tax-funded venues in that state. This would apply to all sports, but it's designed with the NFL in mind.
 
azumanga said:
trapper12 said:
I do not see how the NFL can blackout a game in a city that is being played in a stadium in that city that was paid for by the taxpayers of that city.
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And for that reason, the Florida legislature is trying to pass a law that would prohibit blackouts of sporting events at tax-funded venues in that state. This would apply to all sports, but it's designed with the NFL in mind.
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In that case, it would only apply to Tampa and Jacksonville, as the stadium in Miami formerly known as Joe Robbie was privately-financed.
 
azumanga said:
And for that reason, the Florida legislature is trying to pass a law that would prohibit blackouts of sporting events at tax-funded venues in that state. This would apply to all sports, but it's designed with the NFL in mind.
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They might concentrate on getting some real sports teams in that state first. ;D
 
Most Giants games are on FOX. Most Pats games are on CBS. At least once a season both teams are on CBS at the same time. I'd like to see a rule where WFSB can show both games. One game on Channel 3.1 and the second game either on Channel 3.3 or farmed out to MY-TV9 Channel 59.1. (Although under different ownership WFSB farms out a few CBS sporting events to MY-TV9 every year).

You see Connecticut due to its location being between Boston and NYC is in a unique situation where there are Giants Fans, Pats Fans, and Jets fans.

The same for MLB. If both the Yankees and Redsox are the FOX Saturday Games of the week FOX 61 should be able to show both games. One on their main station Channel 61.1 and one on their sister station WCCT-TV Channel 20.1 - they were only able to get permission to do this once.

Again Connecticut due to its location being between Boston and NYC has fans of both The Yankees and The Redsox. (They both outnumber METS Fans. LOL).
 
The NFL does have a point. Its a better fan experience to attend a stadium that nearly full.

However, I'm not sure that there is a cause and effect relationship between the blackout rule and the NFL's high attendance. I think it has more to do with the fact that NFL teams only play 8 regular season games at home a year and the ESPN effect: ESPN's research consultants say that people want more football coverage than NBA coverage, which becomes a positive feedback cycle.
 
@MarcB: Being Connecticut is geographically entrenched in the region known as New England, it just makes perfect sense that the Patriots would be the default local team over the Giants or Jets, Super Bowl championships or not. Sorry...

And I'm surprised nobody here has come up with the most fan-friendly part of the "experience" of going to a game: no Joe Buck to sit through at home! ::)
 
Actually the southeastern 1/3 of Connecticut aligns itself more with New York City than with
New England. The Giants actually played their home games in the Yale Bowl for a few seasons
before the Meadowlands was built.
 
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