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FCC Ends NFL Blackout Rule
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Sep 30, 2014 at 2:51 PM
- jrg
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Sep 30, 2014 at 3:21 PM
- StOnEy333
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This kind of sucks for those of us in the Bay Area. If anything was blacked out it was raiders games and we got to see better games around the league instead of them. lol
Sep 30, 2014 at 3:54 PM
- jreff22
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So how does the NFL fire back? Maybe only allow ESPN to air games...expand the NFLN....
Sep 30, 2014 at 4:33 PM
- susweel
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Originally posted by StOnEy333:
This kind of sucks for those of us in the Bay Area. If anything was blacked out it was raiders games and we got to see better games around the league instead of them. lol
this
Sep 30, 2014 at 4:38 PM
- gold49digger
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Good for the raiders 
Sep 30, 2014 at 5:50 PM
- vaden
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Good. Teams that get public subsidies shouldn't be allowed to blackout tax payers.
Sep 30, 2014 at 5:56 PM
- jreff22
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Originally posted by vaden:
Good. Teams that get public subsidies shouldn't be allowed to blackout tax payers.
Is it the teams doing it?
Sep 30, 2014 at 5:58 PM
- vaden
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It's the NFL doing it, which ludicrously pays no taxes as a "non-profit."
Sep 30, 2014 at 5:59 PM
- GoreGoreGore
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Originally posted by vaden:
Good. Teams that get public subsidies shouldn't be allowed to blackout tax payers.
agree
Sep 30, 2014 at 6:27 PM
- Young2Rice
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Good rule. Its not fair to the fans to prevent them from watching games just because they can't afford to go. Especially in this economy.
Sep 30, 2014 at 6:42 PM
- blunt_probe
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Great, now we're forever stuck with raiders' games. 
Sep 30, 2014 at 7:22 PM
- Esco
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According to the link this ruling won't necessarily change anything for the NFL. Just means the government no longer supports the rule.
Sep 30, 2014 at 8:19 PM
- fryet
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Maybe now we will start to see much larger stadiums. I think teams were afraid to build 100k stadiums for fear that they would have blackouts. If that is no longer a risk, build huge stadiums, and even if you don't always sell out, you can still be taking in more money than if you artificially lower the number of seats available. It may conceivably also result in lower ticket prices in a mega stadium.
Food for thought: What would the noise factor be like in a stadium that holds 150k people?
Food for thought: What would the noise factor be like in a stadium that holds 150k people?
Sep 30, 2014 at 9:55 PM
- Empire49
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Originally posted by fryet:Maybe now we will start to see much larger stadiums. I think teams were afraid to build 100k stadiums for fear that they would have blackouts. If that is no longer a risk, build huge stadiums, and even if you don't always sell out, you can still be taking in more money than if you artificially lower the number of seats available. It may conceivably also result in lower ticket prices in a mega stadium.
Food for thought: What would the noise factor be like in a stadium that holds 150k people?
Means nothing to Niners fans. We just got a new stadium that is nowhere near that size.
Oct 14, 2014 at 5:58 AM
- arwattoo002
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Great and nice pics
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