No blackout for Jaguars preseason games, but regular season looks like a differe

copperfiend · August 11, 2011, 03:51:42 PM

Quote from: Dapperdan on August 09, 2011, 05:44:21 PM
Why the hell does LA need a retractable roof stadium?? For those cold, snowy LA winter nights?

Yeah, didn't you ever see Crash?

All kidding aside, I am sure one thought it to use it for NCAA basketball like they do in Houston and Indy.

Ajax · August 11, 2011, 04:36:44 PM

Quote from: copperfiend on August 11, 2011, 03:51:42 PM
Yeah, didn't you ever see Crash?

Or Magnolia?

duvaldude08 · August 17, 2011, 12:01:42 PM

The bucs preseason is going to be blacked out. And I see few other teams really struggling to avoid black outs. The reason I am curious is because the NFL is fronting the 10,000 tickets to teams to help blackout numbers. It seems that's all we needed to make sure our preseason was televised. However, the bucs for example, are still having blackouts. Are other teams taking advantage of the complementary tickets? If the bucs have and their preseason is still blackout, that means their ticket sales must be terrible. Any thoughts??

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/17/bucs-blackout-streak-continues-through-the-preseason/

- FYI-we are down to 13,011 tickets to avoid black outs. There was a huge jump in tickets sales over the weekend (472) and we sold 153 yesterday. If we keep up with the pace we may be able to spare the entire season. I have my tickets! What about you?

Tacachale · August 17, 2011, 12:19:59 PM

^I don't know... was this offer extended to other teams? At any rate it won't help us in the regular season. I really hope the NFL wises up and lifts the blackout rule this season, but that seems unlikely if they're willing to blackout several preseason games.

urbanlibertarian · August 17, 2011, 12:23:53 PM

Quote from: Tacachale on August 17, 2011, 12:19:59 PM
^I don't know... was this offer extended to other teams? At any rate it won't help us in the regular season. I really hope the NFL wises up and lifts the blackout rule this season, but that seems unlikely if they're willing to blackout several preseason games.

The offer was extended to all teams because of the lockout.

duvaldude08 · August 17, 2011, 12:34:07 PM

Quote from: urbanlibertarian on August 17, 2011, 12:23:53 PM
Quote from: Tacachale on August 17, 2011, 12:19:59 PM
^I don't know... was this offer extended to other teams? At any rate it won't help us in the regular season. I really hope the NFL wises up and lifts the blackout rule this season, but that seems unlikely if they're willing to blackout several preseason games.

The offer was extended to all teams because of the lockout.

Thanks that's what I thought. I pointed this out to make a positive note. WE MAY BE AHEAD OF THE PACK ON TICKET SALES. If other team can barley lift the blackout or not lift it at all WITH 10,000 extra tickets, that means their sales are worse than ours. I think other teams are struggling worse than we are, but they don't publicize it. I think were the only team who publicize our ticket count on a regular basis.

Dapperdan · August 17, 2011, 12:46:08 PM

If we have 13,000 tickets left and the NFL grants us 10,000, doesn't that still leave 3,000? Are the Jaguars eating those tickets?

duvaldude08 · August 17, 2011, 12:51:00 PM

Quote from: Dapperdan on August 17, 2011, 12:46:08 PM
If we have 13,000 tickets left and the NFL grants us 10,000, doesn't that still leave 3,000? Are the Jaguars eating those tickets?

Since those are "complimentary" Tickets ,I don't think that comes off of our overall ticket total. They still want us to sale tickets. I that was a move to get preseason games on TV and give teams more time to foucus on sales for the regular season. Also, the 13,000 is not minus all of the expected group sales either, which is supposed to around 7000-9000 total. (eventually)

Tacachale · August 17, 2011, 01:13:19 PM

The complimentary tickets offer isn't in effect for the regular season, as it stands we still need to see all our remaining tickets.

Wacca Pilatka · August 17, 2011, 01:15:38 PM

We had between 37,000 and 38,000 season tickets sold in the general bowl last year and are at 35,000 right now. We sold about 8,000 group tickets per game and single-game tickets made up the rest.

Right now we are at an average of 3,000 group tickets per game, but I'm sure that hardly any are for the preseason games and that there is a concentration of them for the big-ticket games like the Monday nighters, the Colts, and the Saints. Last year the Jags switched to the game-by-game chart of regular season tickets remaining to lift blackouts before the season started, and you could see that the general bowl was already nearly sold out for some games (Colts, Eagles, Broncos), while a couple of games still had 10,000 tickets left to sell (Redskins, Raiders).

I think we are actually slightly ahead in the club seats. We've sold about 7,800 club seats on a season ticket basis and I think it was 7,000 last year.

I am pretty sure the complimentary tickets offer has stood in the past and that it can be used in the regular season too, as a one-time thing; I seem to recall the Chargers, Bucs, and Bengals all taking advantage of it for late season games in recent years that otherwise would have been blacked out. I think there was some talk of the Jags' potentially doing this for the '09 nationally televised finale against the Colts had it not sold out on its own. I am sure the Jaguars cannot take advantage of it since they used it in preseason, and I doubt they would anyway.

duvaldude08 · August 17, 2011, 01:39:36 PM

I noticed that too. Our club seat sales are up this year.

Tacachale · August 17, 2011, 02:01:25 PM

^According to the news stories I read, this preseason complimentary ticket policy is not extended to the regular season. Regular season comps may be something different.

http://jacksonville.com/sports/football/jaguars/2011-08-16/story/jaguars-notebook-mayor-alvin-brown-joins-teams-push-sell
http://www.wokv.com/news/news/local/no-tv-blackouts-jags-preseason-games/nDGNP/

If the NFL doesn't do something about its policy, there are going to be a LOT of blackouts this year across the board.

duvaldude08 · August 17, 2011, 02:11:39 PM

Quote from: Tacachale on August 17, 2011, 02:01:25 PM
^According to the news stories I read, this preseason complimentary ticket policy is not extended to the regular season. Regular season comps may be something different.

http://jacksonville.com/sports/football/jaguars/2011-08-16/story/jaguars-notebook-mayor-alvin-brown-joins-teams-push-sell
http://www.wokv.com/news/news/local/no-tv-blackouts-jags-preseason-games/nDGNP/

If the NFL doesn't do something about its policy, there are going to be a LOT of blackouts this year across the board.

Right. Its only for the preseason

comncense · August 17, 2011, 02:11:59 PM

Have the Jaguars always waited this long before the regular season before opening up ticket sales for single game tickets? I know as a season ticket owner, we aren't allowed to purchase single game tickets until the end of this month I think. Between the single game tickets and hopefully they'll bring back the half packs (Black & Teal ticket 4 game ticket packages), I would think that a good number of the remaining tickets we still need to sell get taken up.

copperfiend · August 17, 2011, 02:30:48 PM

Quote from: comncense on August 17, 2011, 02:11:59 PM
Have the Jaguars always waited this long before the regular season before opening up ticket sales for single game tickets? I know as a season ticket owner, we aren't allowed to purchase single game tickets until the end of this month I think. Between the single game tickets and hopefully they'll bring back the half packs (Black & Teal ticket 4 game ticket packages), I would think that a good number of the remaining tickets we still need to sell get taken up.

The lockout changed everything and pushed it back. It really screwed teams in smaller markets like Jacksonville, Tampa, San Diego, Oakland, St Louis and Minnesota that spend an entire offseason moving tickets.