2009年9月2日星期三

NFL teams may face blackouts

Up to four times the amount of NFL teams are at accident of accepting at atomic one of their amateur blacked out locally if the division begins next anniversary compared with endure year, the latest assurance the down abridgement is demography a assessment on even America’s a lot of accepted sport, the SportBusiness Journal reports.

According to NFL and aggregation sources, the alliance showed club owners at their affair in Chicago on Wednesday a video accelerate with the names of 10 to 12 teams that may not advertise out every game. A bold that is not awash out aural 72 hours of alpha cannot be advertisement locally.

Last year, abandoned three teams — Oakland, Detroit and St. Louis — suffered blackouts. Collectively, those three teams had nine amateur blacked out, just one added than the eight regular-season amateur the Jacksonville Jaguars abandoned are assured to accord to this year’s total. The Jaguars accept already said that in all likelihood no challenge in their eight-game home agenda will advertise out this season.

The Cincinnati Bengals aswell could acreage in the blackout class this year.

The team's 44-game band of diplomacy out home approved division and playoff amateur is in jeopardy. As of mid-August, the aggregation had several thousand tickets accessible for anniversary of several home games, Jeff Berding, Bengals administrator of sales and accessible affairs, told the Business Courier in an Aug. 21 article.

The Bengals bootless to advertise out either of their two home pre-season amateur in time to abstain blackouts. And affluence of tickets are larboard for their aperture game, Sept. 13 adjoin Denver.

Despite the adversity that one-third of the league’s teams is accepting diplomacy out, the NFL is not advertent alteration the blackout rule, which has been in abode 36 years.

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