Posted: 9/21/2008 10:31:00 AM EDT
| Saw a note on the bottom game ticker right before halftime of the Giants/Bungles game. |
Ok, maybe I just haven't had enough to drink yet but this makes no sense to me...
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That is some stupid shit. If you pay for your ticket, they want to force you to the stadium if you want to see football, they dont want you staying home and watching the other game.  I had to read it three times to understand what they meant. |
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The NFL has some weird rules. It looks like they should call that just in case "the home team sucks their opponent for the week sucks and there is the game of the season on TV so get your ass to the stadium and watch the shit bowl instead of staying home and watching a good game" rule. |
Is that an attempt by the league to keep local companies from "buying out" the remainder of tickets to get the game on local TV? Serious failure if it is because of the way it's worded. |
I hate the idiots who go to the game and that is the only time they ever come to downtown. They make traffic suck and they tend to get lost easlly. I also feel that very few pro sports figures play for the game instead of the big bucks. I am still pissed about the new stadiums that was declined by the voters but was built anyways. Sorry about the rant I'm PMSing. |
Get the Sunday Ticket on DirecTV and watch as many games as you want. oh yeah HOW ABOUT THEM DOLPHINS  Sir James... |
Yes. The NFL got it's panties in a wad several years ago--a couple of decades, even?--because of that exact situation. IIRC, there was a further "scandal" involving the Detroit Lions buying their own tickets, or something like that. (At the time, ISTR, if the game was sold out it would automagically be aired locally. Something like that.) Coincidentally, after two days in the office after our little trip to paradise, Mrs. Drang headed down to Salem, Orygun, for a business conference. She decided to economize by taking the train--Amtrack has at least two trains a day that stop in Seattle and Salem. She returned Sunday evening, and as I was waiting for her at King Street Station there was a steady stream of folks getting on a train north or south--they had extended service, normally terminating in Seattle, up to Bellingham, just so MigraDog could get home after getting hammered on cheap beer at Qwest Field...  (Do they have cheap beer at Qwest Field these days...?)
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I think part of the stadium naming rights include the ability for the sponser to buy a certain number of tickets at gametime or sometime before gametime for charity in order to meet the NFL's definition of a sold out stadium in order to get the game on TV. |
