NFL Blackouts

Apparently, several teams could face "blackouts" this year, and I'm not talking about their starters or rosters, but about attendance:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=tsn-167021&bcmt=4930862#mwpphu-comment-4928241

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As the start of the NFL regular season draws near, at least 11 teams could be facing TV blackouts in their home markets,
USA Today reports.


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NFL rules require games be blacked out in the home
market if they are not sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff. The league,
according to the newspaper, had 22 games blacked out last year, a
five-year high. Five teams, all of which had losing records, were part
of the blackouts last season:

Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions, Kansas City Chiefs, Oakland Raiders and the St. Louis Rams.

Tampa Bay is preparing for a possible Week 1 blackout, as team
spokesman Jonathan Grella told USA Today that the Buccaneers are "grappling with the attendance issue."



Since March, Buccaneers officials have mentioned the possibility of
blackouts after last season's 3-13 record. The Tampa Tribune notes, "a
struggling Florida economy and uneasiness about the team's direction
have contributed to the lack of ticket sales."



The newspaper notes three 2009 playoff teams could face blackouts,
including the Arizona Cardinals, Cincinnati Bengals and San Diego Chargers.



Reasons vary for why certain teams face blackouts, including a down
economy, quality of the viewing experience in fans' homes and sustained
poor performance.



NFL commissioner Roger Goodell isn't likely to change the blackout
rules any time soon. He told the newspaper: "We worked hard last year
knowing what our customers are going through. I think the teams have
done a terrific job on that. I'm optimistic that we're going to be able
to hopefully improve that number (of 22 blackouts in 2009)."

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They are certainly starting to chew around the edges as to why this is happening, but they won't go the full "nine yards", so to speak.


If it weren't for the creation of "Fantasy Football" over the past 15 years or so, this National Farce League would've been defunct a long time ago.


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Good post Highlander,

What I see is that the teams know they have big problems. But as they're businessmen, they know this isn't the time to make the changes. So they'll ride this out one more year as if nothing is wrong and next year, following the lockout (the black players will go stark raving mad with all that time on their hands and no money), they'll make their changes. Those changes will include big changes in personel on the field. White players will finally get their due and black players will get what's been their due for years now.

Interesting that blacks are totally unaware of their fragile position. They're proceeding as if nothing is amiss. They have no clue that big changes are right around the corner. I wonder about their agents. At least they're smart people. Certainly they can see what's coming. The whole thing is extremely interesting to watch.

This is my take on the situation. As always, I could very well be wrong.

Tom Iron...

Wow the Bucs are dealing with attendance problem. Maybe the racist head coach and almost coal black roster have something to do with it. I guess some of the DWF's are waking up.

Hit 'em in the pocketbook and they'll start to take notice and think about change.

Good - I have been boycotting the NFL since last year and I hope they all lose money. Racist bas****s!

When Jacksonville had an almost a coal black team a few years ago they had quite a few games blacked out as well. That's what they deserve for the crap they are pulling.
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And their advertizers like the "Emasculate the white men" beer ads.

Gee I wonder if any in the Tampa Bay organization read the article from Denver about the ridiculous amounts of money the Broncos are making from having drafted Tim Tebow. I guess it's too much to expect a Florida team to have enough common sense to get a guy that would excite the fan base and help with attendance problems.

jaxvid said:

Gee I wonder if any in the Tampa Bay organization read the article from Denver about the ridiculous amounts of money the Broncos are making from having drafted Tim Tebow. I guess it's too much to expect a Florida team to have enough common sense to get a guy that would excite the fan base and help with attendance problems.

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What? And screw up Raheem's "Dream Team." No way!! The Bucs don't need a quality quarterback. They already have Josh Freeman and Josh Johnson. Now that's quality!!

NFL season tickets down for third straight season

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/13905224/nfl-season-tickets-down-for-third-straight-season

If the teams with the biggest drops are also among the blackest, even the NFL might take notice at some point and begin rethinking its extremist affirmative action agenda, but it will take drops of more than 1 or 2 percent in season ticket sales. If TV ratings begin to decline significantly that will set off alarm bells because the economy doesn't affect television watching habits; if anything people are more likely to spend time at home watching TV in a crappy economy. I dothink most or all of theblackest teamswill dopoorly this season.

Deadlift said:

NFL season tickets down for third straight season

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/13905224/nfl-season-tickets-down-for-third-straight-season

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Deadlift I haven't ever enjoyed the comments on an article that much.Edited by: DWFan

I always hope the very worst for NFL, Inc.

With any luck, there will be a work stoppage and the 2011 season will be ruined, as most experts anticipate (Adam Schefter recently "guaranteed"Â￾ that it would happen). Or perhaps they could revert to playing "scab"Â￾ (white) players. Then again, those players would probably be preposterously African as well.

I would really love to see TV blackouts, declining attendance, and poor TV ratings this season. I want to see the owner of every franchise weeping as their grimy, racist, xenophobic utopias are flushed like the proverbial and literal feces that they have become.

Thrashen, will you please cease with this sugar-coating & tell us your true thoughts on this matter?



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The only issue I have with a work stoppage is all the whites that would suffer as well. I'm not talking about the Peyton Manning's and Tom Brady's who have more money than they know what to do with. I'm talking about guys like Danny Woodhead who are on the fringes of the league.

Here is another article on the matter. It seems several Colts players cursed Roger Goodell out. I'm sure the ones that did it were some illiterate bruthas on the Colts who would be cleaning toilets if not for their affirmative action sports careers.http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ms-laborquestions090810

The owners will tear the players a new A$$-hole in any work stoppage, as long as they are willing to use replacement players. Go back to the strike in latter part1980's, when dozens of NFL superstars (future Hall of Famers -- Montana, Largent, H. Long, L.T., Swann, ect. ) either refused to strike or joined the "scabs" after a week or two. At that time the league was somewhat more "blue collar" and the players made a lot less. Can you imagine the likes of Ocho Stinko or T.O.(or dozens of other primma donna's/drama queens)giving up millions at their age when the average NFL career is less than 5 years and they will not benefit a bit froma strike?







Owners in the NFL (and NBA) also know for a fact that over 60% of the players/millionares in these leagues are broke within five years of retiring, meaning these clowns probably start squandering theirfortuneon idiotic things (diamond earings, gold hub-caps, strippers, ect.) while they are playing and can't afford to strike. Also, with the UFLand scaled down Arena League around, they now have a more readily available pool of talent to draw from and might even field reasonable strike teams.

As far as the attendance, my guess is the drop is much worse than the NFL owners would ever admit. The retarded DWF's laugh at the WNBA for posting bogus attendance figures and giving away free/selling drastically reduced tickets, but they'd be shocked how many NBA and NFL teams do the same thing, because fewer and fewer people are willing to pay full price to see these "superhero's" act like fools and play like crap. Back during the darker days of the Hasslet era, New Orleans only kept their long sellout streak alive (and avoided blackouts) because their owner (Mr. Benson) was selling up to 10,000 (or more)tickets a week to the floating casino's in the area for close to nothing. The casino's, in turn, would distribute these tickets to "underprivalged youth" in the area, who would scream like crazy and give the illusion on TV that they had a rabid fanbase. Is this any different than the New York Liberty of the WNBA, who have to sell thousands of 1$ tickets to insure a few sellouts a year, figuring they can't find enough NY area lesbiansthat are willing to pay full price to watch one their snoozefests?

Gold hub caps? Nah mane, we be rollin' on dem dubbs!

Seriously though, I'm glad these blackouts are happening. I want to see them increase and the NFL go broke. I would settle for a long work stoppage though. It might not help the plight of the White athlete, but I doubt it would hurt it either.

I hope a lockout comes and it absolutely destroys fantasy football. I am done with the league, I will never come back, but I would thoroughly enjoy from the outside seeing the house of cards that is heavily built around fantasy football's popularity come crashing down. The current NFL product is atrocious, and I don't believe that product can survive and have the kind of success it does without fantasy football's lure.

The NBA is also facing a potential work stopage after next year. After next year, after stocks collapse again, the majority of NBA players will be out in the streets in two weeks if the owners lock out.

If the NFL and NBA both have work stopages then the NHL would own professional sports from early November to early April. That would be cool. lol

More cracking at the seams! Bwaa ha ha!

Undefeated teams earn local blackout due to non-interest

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5611685


TAMPA, Fla. -- A matchup of unbeaten teams hasn't boosted
ticket sales enough to prevent Sunday's game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Pittsburgh Steelers from being blacked out locally.

The Bucs also failed to sell out their season opener against
Cleveland two weeks ago, making this the club's second
regular-season blackout since 1997 - the year before the team moved
into Raymond James Stadium.

The team did not say how many tickets remain unsold. Announced
attendance for the opener against the Browns was 47,211, although
the number of people in the stands appeared to be much smaller. The
Bucs list the stadium's capacity as 65,890.

Two of the leagues most racist teams. This is great news!

BTW, I think Cleveland would have beat TB if Hillis got more carries and didn't have that costly fumble when the Browns were in FG range. Delhomme hasn't looked very good in recent years though. I hope Colt McCoy gets a chance and learns fast!

I predict both TB and the Steelers miss the playoffs! Also, 4 of the whitest teams in the NFL could challenge for the Super Bowl (Colts, Pats, Texans and Packers).

Colonel_Reb said:

TAMPA, Fla. -- A matchup of unbeaten teams hasn't boosted
ticket sales enough to prevent Sunday's game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Pittsburgh Steelers from being blacked out locally.

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That game was going to be a blackout whether it was on television or not.

Ha ha! Good point, Paleocon.

Great post, guys!! It's nice to know than many have put the NFL on waivers as I have. May the bubbling blackouts roll into a boil in this scummy league called the NFL. Speaking of attendance, the UFL's Nighthawks sold out tonight and I thought the game was rather entertaining. Yes, the black receivers on the 'Hawks had several drops as usual, but I got to see Hass actually get into the game. He actually got to catch a ball. And a white guy actually got some reps at RB. Hopefully, the NFL will strike next year and the UFL will get a lot more looks from the fans all over. You can watch the games on Versus, HDNet and online at the UFL website.