HapHaszard Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 http://curlyr.blogspot.com/2008/12/you-dont-deserve-nfl-team-if.html You can't sell out an NFL playoff game Hat tip to Jason at Bleeding Green Nation via lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery, the Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting that the Eagles-Vikings wildcard playoff game may be blacked out in the local market due to poor ticket sales. As of 10:30 am CT there were still eleven thousand tickets left for Sunday's playoff game. NFL rules dictate that these tickets must all be sold by 3:30 pm CT tomorrow, New Year's Day, which seems to me to be very unlikely. The Vikings are going to ask for an extension to Friday which I expect the league will grant but come one dudes, this is a playoff game we are talking about. I hope Eagles fans invade in their thousands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tr1 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 It's time to start shutting down some franchises and consolidating the talent. The NFL will be better off for it. And, I'd prefer to have just the two conferences and use conference records to determine playoff eligibility. If you don't punish the underachievers, you get mediocrity...and you can't expect to get top money for mediocrity...as proven by these low ticket sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskindan07 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 The same for the Cards, they have to sell 4,500 more tickets or they will be blacked out also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HapHaszard Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 I was wondering, does anyone remember if any of the NFCE teams have ever been blacked out for a playoff game? If so I really can't remember it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 I cannot ever remember an NFCE team playoff blackout, and although my memory may not be what it once was I do think I would recall THAT. It is mindboggling that these teams cannot even fill their own houses for a playoff run, tr1 may be right again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJL Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 It's time to start shutting down some franchises and consolidating the talent.The NFL will be better off for it. And, I'd prefer to have just the two conferences and use conference records to determine playoff eligibility. If you don't punish the underachievers, you get mediocrity...and you can't expect to get top money for mediocrity...as proven by these low ticket sales. It's called parity. And it's what the NFL wants. Your idea is extremely INSANELY bad for business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsciambi Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 It is a recession... I understand the Cardinals, they have no legitimate shot at the Super Bowl. Who wants to shell out playoff ticket money to see your team get destroyed? The Vikings I'd say have an outside chance. Either way though, I agree. Let big market cities have these teams, cause this is pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 It's called parity. And it's what the NFL wants.Your idea is extremely INSANELY bad for business Free agency creates parity, not expanding the number of teams. As long as free agency remains a constant in the NFL, parity will continue even if the number of teams is cut from 32 to 28. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 when I was growing up in DC I never even heard of a game being blacked out. Then I moved out to SD and once the whole Ryan Leaf debacle happened I started hearing about it and was just shocked that this could even happen. I am spoiled I guess. Most of the time though local businesses will buy up the tickets and save the fans from being blacked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcnativenerd Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 That's absolutely pathetic. Your ball team is in the playoffs and you can't sell out. I know times are tough for everyone, but (and this especially goes with a team like the Vikings) you don't know when this is going to happen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAFGA Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 It is a recession...I understand the Cardinals, they have no legitimate shot at the Super Bowl. Who wants to shell out playoff ticket money to see your team get destroyed? The Vikings I'd say have an outside chance. Either way though, I agree. Let big market cities have these teams, cause this is pathetic. Big market cities? You mean like Los Angeles? The Raiders couldn't sell out L.A. Coliseum! Are you saying that all playoff teams should come from "big market cities"? Isn't that like fixing the outcome of the season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Big market cities? You mean like Los Angeles? The Raiders couldn't sell out L.A. Coliseum! Are you saying that all playoff teams should come from "big market cities"? Isn't that like fixing the outcome of the season? in the 80s 76K was a lot to try and fill for a team that was moving in to the city. and they werent really welcome in that stadium either and it was never going to be long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcnativenerd Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 In L.A.'s defense, selling out the Los Angeles Coliseum is no easy task. It holds nearly 100,000 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HapHaszard Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 when I was growing up in DC I never even heard of a game being blacked out. Then I moved out to SD and once the whole Ryan Leaf debacle happened I started hearing about it and was just shocked that this could even happen. I am spoiled I guess.Most of the time though local businesses will buy up the tickets and save the fans from being blacked out. I actually remember skins games being blacked out, guys used to travel to Richmond to rent a motel room to see the game. Its been many years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 I actually remember skins games being blacked out, guys used to travel to Richmond to rent a motel room to see the game. Its been many years ago. I dont remember that, honestly. It may have been before my time but I always remember my dad and I sittng down in front of the TV (on mute) and listening to the radio for games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HapHaszard Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 I dont remember that, honestly. It may have been before my time but I always remember my dad and I sittng down in front of the TV (on mute) and listening to the radio for games. We used to do the same thing turn down the sound on the TV and listening to the radio also, especially when Sonny and Sam started broadcasting. I think back then they were on WMAL radio. (630am) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 We used to do the same thing turn down the sound on the TV and listening to the radio also, especially when Sonny and Sam started broadcasting. I think back then they were on WMAL radio. (630am) I can still remember the jingle too. WMAL AM 63!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HapHaszard Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 I can still remember the jingle too. WMAL AM 63!! Yeah its funny how jingles stick with you, I still remember a Ipanna toothpaste jingle from the early 50's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWinzit Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 AS BLACKOUT LOOMS IN MINNESOTA, EAGLES FANS AREN’T WELCOME On Monday, 20,000 tickets were available for Sunday’s playoff game at the Metrodome between the Eagles and the Vikings. Sean Jensen of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that, as of noon on Thursday, 8,000 seats remained. Jensen writes that the team will need a “dramatic turn” in order to avoid a blackout. The “dramatic turn” likely won’t come in the form of a fat-cat corporate sponsor that buys up all the extra seats and distributes them to the children of Travis Henry. “They’re in the same boat as everybody else,” Vikings V.P. of sales and marketing Steve LaCroix said. “It’s the start of a new quarter in a very tough financial and economic environment. There’s no one that’s going to come in and save the day at this point. When you have this many seats still available, it ends up being a pretty expensive proposition. As that [number of unsold tickets] starts to really tighten down, maybe we can have something like that happen. But at this point, there’s nothing lined up.” Eagles fans represent one potential source of ticket sales. But the Vikings don’t want them. Said LaCroix, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer: “You need to remind them that it was 8 below this morning, so maybe that will help keep them away. They’re promoting ‘Come to Minnesota, turn the purple stadium green,’ and obviously we want to counter that and make sure we maintain our home-field advantage.” (Yeah, those empty seats are really intimidating.) The Vikings received on Wednesday a one-day extension of the deadline for selling the tickets, from 4:30 p.m. EST Thursday to the same time on Friday. It’s possible that the Vikings will receive another extension, pushing the deadline to 4:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, given that the Cardinals received just such an extension earlier today. Whether Eagles fans help to ensure that the game will be televised in Minnesota remains to be seen. For folks in Philly, however, there’s a much, much smaller sense of urgency; regardless of whether another ticket or all of them sells, they’ll see the game. http://www.profootballtalk.com/category/rumor-mill/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor The Invincible Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 The economy has to play some in there. Some people just can't afford tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoyler23 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Economy or no, that's simply pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamshatterer Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 It's VERY pathetic when the Metradome's capacity is 64,121 and the Cards stadium is 63,400. http://www.nflteamhistory.com/nfl_teams/minnesota_vikings/stadium.html http://www.stadiumsofnfl.com/nfc/UniversityofPhoenixStadium.htm That is almost 30,000 less than ours and it's a damn playoff game. PATHETIC!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebornempowered Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 This is very interesting considering the Twins have never had a problem packing out playoff games. I know it is related the economy and all but not being able to sell out that stadium in a city of that size is absolutely ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointyfootball Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 The economy has to play some in there. Some people just can't afford tickets. Didn't the NFL come out and say they were going to reduce playoff ticket prices by 10% as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dockeryfan Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 If the nfl goes through with it's blackout in this economy, it would be a mistake. They would be missing on a huge PR gain by overriding the blackout in "these troubled times" blah blah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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