by Josh McCain

With a decline in ticket sales, teams like Jacksonville, Buffalo, and Cincinnati are expected to have blacked out home games.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with blacked out home games, a blacked out game occurs when a team fails to sell out its home game 72 hours prior; the game is then “blacked out” or not shown locally.

Many people, especially with the economy, cry foul for this practice because not everyone can afford to go to the games. At first, I’m inclined to agree with these folks.

However, not require a game to be sold out to be on television would drastically cut into a team’s revenue. In cities like Cincinnati and Buffalo, where the winters are quite harsh, getting out to see a game can be murder.

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