Sports
San Diego Chargers Need to Sell 1800 Tickets to Lift Blackout
The team needs to sell the tickets by 1:15 p.m. Thursday.
The San Diego Chargers still need to sell about 1,800 tickets to avoid a blackout for its season opener, the team announced on Tuesday.
The Chargers need to sell the tickets by 1:15 p.m. Thursday to avoid the local blackout on Sunday, but the NFL usually grants a 24-hour grace period if they're close.
In 2010, the Chargers fell about 6,000 seats short of a sellout when they hosted Jacksonville in their first home game. That ended a run of 48 games in which all the seats were full.
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Qualcomm Stadium, which the team's owners want to replace, seats 71,500 people for football games. The NFL exempts expensive club seats, of which about 1,500 are available -- in addition to the 1,800 general seats that still need to be sold.
If the blackout is lifted, the game will air on Fox 5.
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City News Service contributed to this report.
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