The ability of teams to avoid blackouts by reducing the percentage of non-premium ticket sales from 100 percent to as low as 85 percent comes with crater-sized caveats. For starters, the percentage can’t be set on a week-by-week basis, with the limit staying at 100 percent when facing a team like the Steelers and dropping… Continue reading...
Generally I am on the Internet frantically looking for a working link while listening on the radio. Which gives me another thing that I hate about the greedy NFL, they have for a few years now been selling their radio package which means that if you have poor radio reception in your apartment (like I do) you can no longer turn to the internet feed of the station that has the broadcast rights to your team. I wonder If the Bolts move to L.A. next year will their unsold out games be blacked out in San Diego? We all know that L.A. does not often sell out their Pro football games.
The Southern California market contains both LA and San Diego by NFL bylaws so any blackout in LA would effect San Diego. The less they show a team on TV the less I care about them... heck the Padres disappeared from TV for a decade basically as they weren't on Directv in my household. Looks like they will lose another generation of fans growing up who happen to live in Time Warner cities... ...I'm pretty much off the Chargers bandwagon, I discovered i really enjoy riding my bike 50 miles up and down the coast on Sundays or around our beautiful county, I'm sure other San Dieagans have other things to do like free concerts in the park or surfing at Blacks.
That just plain blows. I hope they build a very small stadium when the Bolts move to L.A., else we will be in store for at least four blackouts a year once the newness of the team in L.A. wears off in a couple of years.
