Chargers game blacked out

Easter Brunch in San Diego. Follow us…. Subscribe Today! About Us Advertise Careers Contact. Significantly more than these other teams. Reportedly, the Chargers were about 7, seats short of a sellout. That means they did sell 64, tickets to this game, which would be enough to sell out the Metrodome and come damn close in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, probably close enough to get an extension and sell out the remaining seats.

According to plans given to the media, seating capacity at the hypothetical downtown seat will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 62, With a new stadium, blackouts would never be an issue. This is the part that bugs me the most.

Whenever the Chargers have issues selling out and blackouts are threatened, sports media types both online and on the radio love to rail about how bad San Diego fans are.

The easy answer here is no way. Not with Los Angeles 45 minutes down the road, and the season opener getting blacked out. I mean, even Jacksonville avoided a blackout for their home opener. It's a down economy, there's a lot to do in San Diego, blah blah blah. There's no way you can spin this without the city coming off looking pathetic. There aren't 50, football fans willing to pay to watch a Super Bowl contender? It's one thing for the Jaguars, Lions , and Raiders to struggle.

But the Chargers are good. So it's sort of an open-and-shut case. San Diego needs to get it together. That said If you were looking for the "toughest contender to root for" it'd have to be San Diego, right? Dean Spanos, their owner, apparently has dreams of Los Angeles. Their GM refuses to pay key players on offense, and more important, just seems like an out-and-out prick.

They mortgaged their Draft on Ryan Mathews , who had just 75 yards on Monday night. And their two most prominent players are Shawne Merriman and Philip Rivers. The same Philip Rivers who had a full-on tantrum on Thursday.

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