The National Football League is watering down its controversial TV "blackout" rule, which restricts local broadcasts for games that aren't sellouts, Kevin Clark of the Wall Street Journal reports. Blackouts were meant to encourage ticket sales, but the strict guidelines are now looking outdated. Some teams want freedom to add stadium capacity without risking blackouts. And blackouts are rare anyway, occurring in only 16 of last season's 256 regular-season games, partly because some team owners and sponsors buy up unsold seats to get blackouts lifted. Team owners have passed a resolution that starting this season will allow for local broadcasts of NFL games even when as few as 85% of tickets are sold. Source: The Redzone
It's about time they do something about the damn blackouts. Only times I have missed a Titans game has been when they have been out here playing the Raiders.
