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NFL Blackout Policy Blot on Roger Goodell's Loyal Subjects
Sep 8th 2010 – 5:18PM
It's good to be Roger Goodell these days. Cities bend over backward to build stadiums for the NFL commissioner's teams, usually on their own dime. Television networks back up armored trucks to the league's Park Avenue headquarters for the rights to carry games. And loving fans stream through those stadium turnstiles in...
Blackouts Loom for Detroit Lions
Sep 7th 2010 – 12:08PM
In the NFL, teams that don't sell out their home games at least 72 hours before kickoff are blacked out on local television. For fans in Detroit, that means that the only way to watch a lot of Lions home games this year will be to buy a ticket. Last season, the Lions sold out only four of their eight regular-season home...
Buccaneers Exhibit A for Banning Preseason Blackout
Aug 18th 2010 – 1:46PM
The Tampa Bay Bucs will black out their preseason game on Saturday night against the Chiefs. It is the first blackout in Tampa in 12 seasons, which might signal some arm twisting to get fans to buy tickets for the regular season. NFL rules mandate that games not sold out 72 hours before kickoff must be blacked out in the...
Background on NFL blackout
The television rights to broadcast National Football League (NFL) games are the most lucrative and expensive rights of any American sport.
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