Chargers may be blacked out for opener
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Topdawg13New MemberOP
With roughly 8,000 general admission tickets still unsold, Southern California's only NFL team expects Sunday's home opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars to be blacked out.
That will end a streak of 48 straight sellouts, including the playoffs. The last Chargers home game blacked out was against New Orleans on Nov. 7, 2004, when Marty Schottenheimer was their coach and Drew Brees was their quarterback.
"We're disappointed, but from a couple weeks out we thought this was a possibility," executive vice president A.G. Spanos said Wednesday.
The deadline for reaching a sellout is 1:15 p.m. PST Thursday. Teams can request a 24-hour extension from the NFL, but that's usually done only when a team is confident it can reach a sellout.
Spanos, grandson of owner Alex Spanos, said the only sure sellout is against New England on Oct. 24. The next game with the best chance of selling out is a Monday night game against division rival Denver on Nov. 22.
Spanos said there are more than 10,000 tickets left to sell for a game against Arizona on Oct. 3.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke
schmoliootsubscriberYet Miami fans are the worst according to the media.
HardKoreXXXNew MemberThat loss to KC probably didn't help either.
I think it has less to do with the team and more to do with the economy, however. San Diego hasn't lost any fans since last year.
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djphinfansubscriberthat team and franchise has been posing as both for years...
every year...overrated..
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