ESPN Bought Tickets To Avoid Local Black Out Last Night

[jonathanlambert33]

SAN DIEGO -- The Chargers avoided becoming the first team in more than a decade not to have a "Monday Night Football" home game televised locally in their market.

A day after applying for and receiving a 24-hour extension to try and sell nearly 9,000 tickets, the team announced on Saturday that a group of local sponsors, along with ESPN, guaranteed the purchase of enough tickets to lift the local television blackout for Monday night's game against the Indianapolis Colts at Qualcomm Stadium.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9816412/san-diego-chargers-avoid-local-blackout-monday-night-football-clash-vs-indianapolis-colts

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

Charger fans didn't want to go see this game? ....

 

[Pugz]

these black out rules are ridiculous.

 

[NV]

Pathetic honestly.
 
Even with that team playing well. 

 

[Teagz]

LA Chargers imo

 

[Big Bid'Ness]

Chargers games are always blacked out or threatened to be blacked out.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

I don't get the concept behind Blackout Rules for a team locally. Then of course I don't really get the concept of math in general so I shouldn't be talking, lol.