Chargers Sellout Breaks Chiefs Road Blackout Streak
by Joel Thorman on Nov 28, 2009 3:11 PM CST
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PrintThe Kansas City Chiefs second game against the San Diego Chargers has officially been deemed a sellout according to a release from the Chargers.
The Chiefs last two road games have been blacked out in their respective markets. Jacksonville and Oakland did not televise the game locally.
The Chargers had previously received two extensions to sellout this game. As of yesterday, they were over 1,300 tickets away and as many as 7,000 last week.
The Chargers haven't had a blackout since November 7th, 2004 against the New Orleans Saints.
Some people say the reason San Diego has a tough time filling Qualcomm is that the city itself has a lot more to do. The weather is nice and the water is near so people have other, better options than sitting around watching a NFL team on a five game winning streak (I would disagree, personally).
Plus, it hurts that Qualcomm Stadium has been called the armpit of the NFL.
The Chiefs are still on track to sell out the next home game against the Denver Broncos. After that, though, Arrowhead's nearly 20 year long sellout streak could be in jeopardy. A win against the Chargers in Qualcomm tomorrow could go a long way to helping that.
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Not sure I believe it.
I for one will take a couple of looks (assuming I actually get to see the game) at how many empty seats there are. The numbers of tickets sold in so short a time seems suspicious. But then again it could be nothing. shrugs
Most likely a corporate buy out. Happens all the time.
Yeah, let's just keep matriculatin' the ball down the field, boys! ...
by oldchiefsfan on Nov 28, 2009 3:34 PM CST up reply actions
Ohh I know.
Just decided for some reason or another not to specifically mention it.
Okay : )
I guarantee you if the Chiefs has a team with a record and winning streak like them there would be peoples butts in those seats instead of having to have some business buy up the rest of the seats. It would literally be a Sea of Red.
Yeah, let's just keep matriculatin' the ball down the field, boys! ...
by oldchiefsfan on Nov 28, 2009 3:47 PM CST up reply actions
You don't have to sell every seat in the stadium to have a sellout
I wasn’t aware of this myself until Gretz wrote about it earlier this season, but at the beginning of the year, each team gets to inform the league how many tickets sold will constitute a sellout for the purposes of a TV blackout. All this season, even the announced paid attendence at Arrowhead (which is the number of tickets sold – not how many people come to the game, which is almost never revealed) has been 8-10,000 below the level of a physical sellout.
So at least as far as a TV blackout is concerned, the number of empty seats is meaningless – not only because someone may have paid for the empty seats, but also because there may be some seats in the stadium that don’t have to be sold in order for the blackout to be lifted.
BTW… there is a catch to this thing. If a team tells the NFL that they’ll consider it a sellout if 67,000 tickets are sold in their 80,000 seat facility, they can’t sell any more than 67,000 seats. So there’s an incentive for the team to keep the sellout number close to the capacity of the stadium.
John
"Gentlemen! You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
by RDOGuy on Nov 28, 2009 3:56 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Great writeup
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes; after that, who cares?! He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
yeah its pretty sad
but ill be at the game taking up a seat of a charger fan season ticket holder…doing my part.
Ill be in the end zone, rail, loge section, lets cheer them to victory and override their stupid stupid crowd, and pathetic fair weather fan base.
As for the “sell out” yeah…its not sold out, as always some company made it a “sell out” buying out the remaining tickets after 3 extensions to make the blackout not happen…typical san diego sports…SAD…REALLY SAD…but you know, part of it is ticket prices, its the worst stadium the worst parking…yet my seats have a 98 dollar face value…ridiculous.
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