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Raiders sell out, but how?
By John Ryan
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 2:40 pm in General news, NFL, Raiders.
The Raiders just confirmed that they have sold out and will be on local TV this weekend. This is surprising, and not just to me. Yesterday, the folks at Fox sent out the lineup for the NFL weekend, and they were so expectant of a local blackout that they listed the Arizona-Oakland game being shown only in the Phoenix market, with the Bay Area getting Seattle-Minnesota instead.
I can’t blame Fox for that leap of logic. Two teams with a combined 1-10 record playing in a stadium that rarely sells out even when the home team is good? What’s going on here?
According to the Raiders, you can credit the extra ticket sales to two factors: John Madden receiving his Hall of Fame ring, and the annual youth game. Yeah. I’m sure tens of thousands of people are lining up for those sideshows.
Combined with the sellout of the previous home game against Cleveland, which is even blander and less watch-worthy than Arizona, it looks like something fishy is going on. (I wasn’t at the stadium for that one, but various people have told me empty seats were plentiful, and I’m assuming that will be the case this weekend too.)
Somebody’s buying the tickets, obviously, for whatever reasons they have. I just wonder who it is.
–Calling the game will be Matt Devlin (never heard of him) and Tony Siragusa. Goose is pretty entertaining, but they have a small TV booth in Oakland — frighteningly small under these circumstances — and the press-box elevator is balky even in the best of times. Could get ugly.
–Because the game sold out, it looks like we’ll pick up an extra Fox game. At 10 a.m., we’ll see Carolina-Cincinnati.
–I’m already looking forward to the following Raiders game. Pittsburgh at Oakland. On CBS. With analyst Rich Gannon
this will be our 4th home game sellout
chargers,browns,cardinals and steelers game already sold out.
Raiders sell out, but how?
By John Ryan
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 2:40 pm in General news, NFL, Raiders.
The Raiders just confirmed that they have sold out and will be on local TV this weekend. This is surprising, and not just to me. Yesterday, the folks at Fox sent out the lineup for the NFL weekend, and they were so expectant of a local blackout that they listed the Arizona-Oakland game being shown only in the Phoenix market, with the Bay Area getting Seattle-Minnesota instead.
I can’t blame Fox for that leap of logic. Two teams with a combined 1-10 record playing in a stadium that rarely sells out even when the home team is good? What’s going on here?
According to the Raiders, you can credit the extra ticket sales to two factors: John Madden receiving his Hall of Fame ring, and the annual youth game. Yeah. I’m sure tens of thousands of people are lining up for those sideshows.
Combined with the sellout of the previous home game against Cleveland, which is even blander and less watch-worthy than Arizona, it looks like something fishy is going on. (I wasn’t at the stadium for that one, but various people have told me empty seats were plentiful, and I’m assuming that will be the case this weekend too.)
Somebody’s buying the tickets, obviously, for whatever reasons they have. I just wonder who it is.
–Calling the game will be Matt Devlin (never heard of him) and Tony Siragusa. Goose is pretty entertaining, but they have a small TV booth in Oakland — frighteningly small under these circumstances — and the press-box elevator is balky even in the best of times. Could get ugly.
–Because the game sold out, it looks like we’ll pick up an extra Fox game. At 10 a.m., we’ll see Carolina-Cincinnati.
–I’m already looking forward to the following Raiders game. Pittsburgh at Oakland. On CBS. With analyst Rich Gannon
this will be our 4th home game sellout
chargers,browns,cardinals and steelers game already sold out.
