NFL Blackout Restrictions Are A Big Injustice

Discussion in 'NFL General Discussion' started by Chubz, Sep 26, 2009.

  1. Chubz

    Chubz 1st Stringer

    Detroits unemployment rate is somewhere near 40%. People that were longtime season ticket holders of the Detroit Lions had to give up their tickets due to unemployment and saving money to stay in their holmes. Now those people can't even watch their hometown team play because the team can't sell enough tickets.

    The NFL blackout rules are 40+ years in the past. Those rules were passed back then to force people to go to games so that tv broadcasts wouldn't hurt the home teams gate.

    The Lions should sell those empty seats for 5 bucks or just give the tickets away and give something back to a city that needs some good. The NFL should lift the blackout restrictions in every market. Our economy is the worst it's been since the great depression. How can the NFL expect sellouts in some of these cities and realize the times were in and just give back a little.

    Who's to blame for this, The NFL owners. Roger Goodell whether people realize it or not is an extension of the NFL owners. He's going to do whatever the team owners want him to do. I would love for congress to get involved in this but with the mess of everything else that won't happen.

    Also I realize that this extends beyond Detroit too, but the City of Detroit is suffering worse than pretty much any other city in the country.
     
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  2. smeags

    smeags militant geek

    buy our products !!!!! support our teams !!!!! spend spend spend !!!!


    but heck you if you think you're seeing the game if it didnt sellout.

    if the nflpa is smart they will use this issue as a bargining chip because this is flat out bullcrap.
     
  3. Dougerrrr

    Dougerrrr Laus Deo

    It's not just the owners the tv networks could do something besides dump millions into the teams pockets. Right?
    What if networks demanded a little more from the teams and owners to not allow these blackouts? All the networks do is dump more and more into the next agreement and then things like the NFL network and Sunday ticket come along and make it harder for a lot of people to see games also. Understand it's a business but someday it's going to be a private club and the NFL will have ruined what made it so appealing before.....it was available to the every day guy and gal and they felt like they were a part of it all.
    Can't afford one game tickets any more let alone season tickets. There are billion dollar stadiums to pay for and multi million dollar salaries too.
     
  4. wide right

    wide right Grumpy Old Man

  5. Chubz

    Chubz 1st Stringer

    That only counts people collecting benefits as unemployed. A lot of citizens have used up all their benefits. The real rate is closer to 40. Just like the national rate is 9.7%, it only counts people collecting benefits and doesn't count other markers. The real national rate is over 15%.
     
  6. smeags

    smeags militant geek

  7. BU54

    BU54 1st Stringer

    I think they should lift the blackout rule. It's just a local game. Not like it's nationally televised.
    Greed is the root of all evil.
     
  8. wide right

    wide right Grumpy Old Man

    My team's season is sold out and nobody is snitching about blackouts here. If the community in incapable of supporting a team does that community deserve a team?
     
  9. themush

    themush iDIOT sAVANT

    WR it's not just a community thing it's a national thing.

    If Goodell had any balls at all he would lower the blackout ticket sales percentage to around 60%-70%.
     
  10. CaptainStubing

    CaptainStubing Gave her a Dirty Sanchez

    eh, i kind of understand what youre saying wideright but no one could have predicted the economic devastation that unions and high government taxes would have on the economy of detroit................. oh, wait a minute, millions of us warned of it for years so it's really no surprise at all ..........

    seriously, hopefully detroit will start to generate new jobs and they can start selling out the stadium again soon.
     
  11. Chubz

    Chubz 1st Stringer

    you are a complete toolshed. In case you havent read or watched the news at all, this country is on the worst economic situation since great depression. Pull your head out of your butt. Some areas of the country can still buy tickets to their games and some can't. Its not about a community supporting a team. They've supported those teams for years, whether it was upping the ticket prices or charging absurd prices for concessions, those people still came year after year. This year thousands of people dont have the luxury of having the extra money to go to a game and drop their kids college tuition bill on a game. So instead they stay home and watch the game on TV. And then, hey no game blacked out due to lack of ticket sales at the teams gate.

    It's not a comminuty support thing, it's a hey time to give back thing.

    Don't be an butthole with stupid remarks. Consider yourself lucky that your team's fans still have the resources to buy a ticket to a game.
     
  12. wide right

    wide right Grumpy Old Man

    So you lost your job and you're angry. We get it. Argue your point without the name calling or do you do that because you have no point to make?

    Is the recession Roger Goodell's fault? No. Why does he need to "give back"? The NFL is a successful business model. If Detroit, Jacksonville, and San Diego can't sell tickets that's on them.
     
  13. themush

    themush iDIOT sAVANT

    No one is saying the recession is Goodells fault...come on WR.

    All I'm saying is show some balls and lower the mandatory ticket sales percentage. Even if just for the regular season. Wouldn't be a bad thing to show a little compassion instead of talking about moving teams to Europe or Mexico....
     
  14. Alcohol_IV

    Alcohol_IV eBattle Champion

    How about giving back to all the taxpayers who paid for stadiums, police details, access road construction/widening, etc? When times are good we can pay for these giant construction projects but when times are bad these multimillionaires can't "give back" by making money on TV advertising instead of ticket sales?

    I wish Arena, CFL, whatever counter-programmed these blackouts if only to wake the NFL up.