Don't expect to watch the Dolphins and Chargers battle at Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday unless you're planning on attending. The game won't be shown on local television. But some NFL fans may rejoice anyway: the Bolts blackout means Channel 8 will show Sunday afternoon's Patriots-Raiders game from Oakland.
With more than 6,500 tickets (plus some more pricey club seats) still to be sold as of Thursday's 1 p.m. deadline, the NFL didn't even offer the Bolts a 24-hour extension as has happened on occasion in the past. Games not sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff are blacked out in the local market, per NFL policy.
All signals within a 75-mile radius of the stadium and those areas in which the signal reaches within that 75-mile zone are affected, whether network, cable or satellite. That means you also can't see the 1:15 p.m. Chargers game on TV in L.A., which also will get the Pats-Raiders game.
The Bolts can be heard live on radio at KIOZ Rock 105.3 FM and XTRA Sports 1360 AM in the San Diego area, as well as on Sirius Satellite Radio. Fans in the blackout area will be able to watch a replay of the Dolphins-Chargers game on NFL.com beginning at midnight on Sunday night.
The next Chargers home game isn't until Sunday, Nov. 6, and a blackout threat shouldn't be a worry considering the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers will be in town.
Whether games are blacked out or not, you know they will be videoed and will likely be shown later, just like movies do.
the whole bla ckout policy needs to be rethought.. i seriously doubt what the chargers get from ticket sales will even pay philip rivers' salary for the year.. the team money comes mostly from television..the chargers damed sure don't want television revenue lost..as it will be in this case.. don't blame the victims here.. doug
rather, it's the chargewrs management that's clamoring for a new stadium..with new sky boxes, new luxuries that have little or nothing to do with football being played on the field.. they want out of qualcomm, and they make no bones about it..using the threat of moving back to los angeles as a club over the city's head to go ahead and approve a new stadium, including hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.. i don't think that's gonna happen here.. will the chargers actually move- you bet they will, if it's a matter of dollars.. no one has ever accused the spanos family of not being businesspeople.. they are, first and foremost.. doug
Here are some quotes from todays UT: The goal with a new stadium is so it has a positive influence on our city's economy. As of now, The Q is anything but beneficial to our city. " "Not only would a Super Bowl (which could generate 500 Million) come to the city, but additional sporting events and franchises. " "Get a new stadium and SD will get in the permanent SB rotation. Every 5 years or so it will happen." What was that PT Barnum said ?
One of the biggest scams ever, Susan Golding playing the Spanos' against the Padres, all the while knowing the Padres wanted to go Downtown. Many have forgotten that the deal was if the City put 35 skyboxes in and expanded the Chargers would stay through 2020. Now we have two mediocre franchises while Susy is jetsetting around the World.
i'm not at all sure, either, whether one super bowl every several years..(and it'd be more than 5) is that big an economic impact for the city.. true, there are a core group of fans who are in favor of a new stadium..but th3ere's not all that many of them..the average charger fan who can actually afford to go to the games likes qualcomm..if for no other reason than the fact that qualcomm provides one of the biggest parking lots in the NFL..it's usually easy to find a parking place there... and a tailgate area as well..irt's convenient.. but even mark fabiani of the chargers is now saying there must be significant "public participation" in the funding of a new stadium.. that means tax dollars.. a LOT of them.. and i don't think any politician, in this day and age, is gonna be willing to vote in favor of that.. what with the current state of the city of san diego's finances.. i'd pretty much lean toward the likelihood that san diego is going to lose the chargers to los angeles.. and qualcomm will eventually be torn down and replaced with other development.. and..what about the aztecs??? doug
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