This is the best news for northern California football fans since Trey Junkin retired:
Because of weak ticket sales for the Texans-Raiders game Sunday, the game will be blacked out in that area and instead fans will be stuck with . . . Pats-Colts!
Here is a story from the San Francisco Chronicle about that.
Bodog sent an e-mail today with the news the betting over under for Sunday's TV rating is 21.5 percent of U.S. homes. That's really a lot for a regular-season game.
That's more than double what the World Series averaged.
Comments (6)
Neil...
Here's one you may want to look into and it could have played into this story...
Under the original NFL blackout rule policy, when a game is sold out 72 hours before kick off, the game must be made available to the local staton. However, the station is not mandated to carry the game...it can substitute another game. When the Jets played a couple of cross over games in the late 70's when they were awful, that is they were playing home against an NFC opponent, CBS would substitute what they considered a better NFC game for the Jet game...NBC then did the same for a couple of Sunday's and towards the end of that season (77 or thereabouts), the Jets had a chance to go .500 and it was big news when NBC at the time decided to put the Jets back on local television.
I don't know if the rule has changed. I don't know if there is still a local option to knock a sold out Jet home game off of CBS (all of their remianing games are on CBS except for the last game of the series which will surely be flexed out back to CBS) for a better game (although I don't know whether there are any). By rule, then and now, CBS must carry all Jet road games.
You might want to check this out...and perhaps although the deadline has passed in Oakland, the local CBS affiliate might have had the option to carry Cols-Pats if that rule has not been changed.
Wow. As if it isn't ridiculous enough that television ratings are reported in the news as if they matter to anyone other than networks and their advertisers, you can actually wager on ratings, too?
Seriously, what does it matter to the average sports fan whether a game gets a 5.0 rating or a 10.0 rating? If a game interests me, I am going to watch it whether 10 other people watch it or 10 million. If the ratings were so low as to jeopardize the future availability of sports on television, then I would begin to care.
How about some follow-up: What were the Overnights? I know you claim to be on Vaca, but there is no such thing for a Blogger.
22.5.
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