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  • better days
    Registered User
    • Jan 2010
    • 22028

    Chargers Fins blacked out

    The Chargers fins game will be blacked out this Sunday because more than 6,000 seats remain unsold.

    Despite being very good for the last decade & picked by some to go to the Super Bowl this year, The Chargers can't sell this game out. If ANY team moves to LA this should be it. They started there anyway so they would just be going home.
  • MikeInRoch
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    • Sep 2003
    • 10446

    #2
    Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

    I'm surprised. It should be be an easy win for the home team.
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    • better days
      Registered User
      • Jan 2010
      • 22028

      #3
      Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

      Originally posted by MikeInRoch
      I'm surprised. It should be be an easy win for the home team.
      Yeah, all the more reason it should have sold out. Sparano will be on the countdown to be fired if the Fins lose this game.

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      • PromoTheRobot
        Registered User
        • Sep 2003
        • 2311

        #4
        Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

        Half the teams in the NFL can't sell out anymore. Economy sucks. Tickets are too expensive.

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        • Night Train
          Retired - On Several Levels
          • Jul 2005
          • 33117

          #5
          Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

          Originally posted by better days
          The Chargers fins game will be blacked out this Sunday because more than 6,000 seats remain unsold.

          Despite being very good for the last decade & picked by some to go to the Super Bowl this year, The Chargers can't sell this game out. If ANY team moves to LA this should be it. They started there anyway so they would just be going home.
          Everything I'm reading says they are the #1 target of the LA group, for this very reason. They were once the LA Chargers (1960-61) and it could very well happen again.
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          • trapezeus
            Legendary Zoner
            • Oct 2004
            • 19525

            #6
            Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

            i hate teams moving whether it is the bills or not.

            moving teams creates bandwagon fans. and if they are successful right away, watch how excited they are. just keep the teams where they are. we are all displaced and love who we love. just because a new team in LA shows up doesn't mean people are going to **** themselves to go to games.

            they've failed twice. and they don't support the dodgers or kings. they don't care about anything other than laker basketball. and that's not hard for 20k worth of seats to fill up in the second largest city in america.

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            • Ebenezer
              Give me a minute...
              • Jul 2002
              • 73868

              #7
              Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

              Originally posted by PromoTheRobot
              Half the teams in the NFL can't sell out anymore. Economy sucks. Tickets are too expensive.

              PTR
              Which is exactly why ticket sales will not have an effect on teams moving. It's all about the corporate money and luxury boxes.




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              • BillsFever21
                Registered User
                • Aug 2004
                • 9067

                #8
                Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

                Originally posted by PromoTheRobot
                Half the teams in the NFL can't sell out anymore. Economy sucks. Tickets are too expensive.

                PTR
                So very true. Most teams and stadiums have priced out the average fan. You know it's bad when Buffalo is one of the cheapest tickets in the NFL and it cost around $50 for a crappy seat to attend a game there.

                Add in parking, gas for commuting there, money for tailgating and the costs of stuff in the stadium a lot of the population can't afford it or isn't willing to spend the money to attend the game. Especially with so many people unemployed/underemployed or working low wage jobs or haven't received raises in years.

                Between the raising ticket prices, job layoffs and the destruction of middle class pay a large percentage of the population is priced out of going to the games anymore.

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                • better days
                  Registered User
                  • Jan 2010
                  • 22028

                  #9
                  Re: Chargers Fins blacked out

                  Originally posted by BillsFever21
                  So very true. Most teams and stadiums have priced out the average fan. You know it's bad when Buffalo is one of the cheapest tickets in the NFL and it cost around $50 for a crappy seat to attend a game there.

                  Add in parking, gas for commuting there, money for tailgating and the costs of stuff in the stadium a lot of the population can't afford it or isn't willing to spend the money to attend the game. Especially with so many people unemployed/underemployed or working low wage jobs or haven't received raises in years.

                  Between the raising ticket prices, job layoffs and the destruction of middle class pay a large percentage of the population is priced out of going to the games anymore.
                  Agreed & the NFL Makes A LOT of MONEY from television. If the NFL ever moved the Bills they would lose MANY TV VIEWERS & MANY people that subscribe to the Sunday Ticket.

                  I don't care how much more they could make on the Luxury Boxes in LA compared to Buffalo. They would lose more revenue if you calculate how much a viewer is worth which networks & advertisers do than they would take in on those boxes.

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