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[ben says]

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‏@WOKVNews 5h @JPGunz Lamping says there will not be blackouts. It's not even part of the conversation. #Jaguars


Suck it media and haters.

Best Jags news I've heard in months!

[blizz01]

The Chargers-Cowboys game that was blacked out was a preseason game and it was like three weeks ago.

OOPS - I blew it / sorry.  Need to adjust my date filters when scouring the news at work....But, what's wrong with a little mis-information that's non-Jaguars related?   

[duvaldude08]

I keep looking at our schedule and dont see what everyone is hitting the panic button about. I see 9 wins on there. Just my personal beliefs, I think we can sweep the Colts again, the Titans are a complete mess at the moment so I think we can sweep them, the Bills and Dolphins are very doable, The Bengals arent an issue hopefully we dont beat ourselves this time (that game still urkes me), The Jets and Raiders, it depends. They blew out the Bills, but the Bills were absolutely terriable that night, so I would have to wait and see what the Jets look like a month from now. And we can beat the Raiders, but the westcoast thing will be the deciding factor on that. That would make us 9-7. Maybe pull of a surprise win against some of the more elite teams, maybe 10-6. Let's see how the team progresses. That will determine everything.

[Keith-N-Jax]

DD, take the teal glasses off and look at the schedule again. , Should be a good show Sun, they are honoring Sanya Richards-Ross (gold medalist in the 400 and 4x400) and Bethune's band is preforming for halftime. I love marching bands.

[duvaldude08]

DD, take the teal glasses off and look at the schedule again. , Should be a good show Sun, they are honoring Sanya Richards-Ross (gold medalist in the 400 and 4x400) and Bethune's band is preforming for halftime. I love marching bands.

Please allow me to be delusional Keith. Thank you.. LOL And yes Sunday is going to be a great day. Texans better get ready for a good dose of our two best players, Blackmon and Mojo. Every course well throw a few monkey wrenches in there.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

DD, take the teal glasses off and look at the schedule again.

He can't.  They're contacts.   

[duvaldude08]

DD, take the teal glasses off and look at the schedule again.

He can't.  They're contacts.   

Okay here my shirt for sunday. Anybody else wears it, your dead. I will have on my knee high Jags socks and my black and teal watch.  BTW, are we tailgaiting or what?

[fsujax]

nice shirt DD, what section do you sit in?

[Dapperdan]

Looks like I was wrong. The  bowl is not sold out all season. The Jags are just going to televise all games regardless. Kahn would rather pay the 34 cents on the dollar to the NFL for unsold tickets and end the blackout and ticket counting game every week.

Also, in a  bit of interesting related news, on Saturdays, you can go get a 20 dollar game certificate. With this cetificate, you are guaranteed a seat on Sunday, but you have no idea where. Also, you can buy up to 4, but no guarantee all the tickets will be together. This is a great deal for people who want to get in and see a game, but never had enough money. It might be bad for a fan who paid 60 bucks for their seat to see someone waltz up and pay 20 bucks for a seat next to them, but we need to get those holes filled somehow. This 20 dollar seat buyer may turn into a season ticket buyer Thoughts?

[Tacachale]

^I've always thought stuff like that was a good idea. As for people spending 60 bucks getting jealous (it's hard to believe they'll be putting these people in much better seats than that), well, the only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure they have enough.

[duvaldude08]

Looks like I was wrong. The  bowl is not sold out all season. The Jags are just going to televise all games regardless. Kahn would rather pay the 34 cents on the dollar to the NFL for unsold tickets and end the blackout and ticket counting game every week.

Also, in a  bit of interesting related news, on Saturdays, you can go get a 20 dollar game certificate. With this cetificate, you are guaranteed a seat on Sunday, but you have no idea where. Also, you can buy up to 4, but no guarantee all the tickets will be together. This is a great deal for people who want to get in and see a game, but never had enough money. It might be bad for a fan who paid 60 bucks for their seat to see someone waltz up and pay 20 bucks for a seat next to them, but we need to get those holes filled somehow. This 20 dollar seat buyer may turn into a season ticket buyer Thoughts?

Dan where did you read that? They basically said sales are looking very good and black outs are not in the conversation for this season. No one said they were buying unsold  the tickets all season to televise the games. Or did I miss something? Nto a jab at you, but you know I am very fact based.

[Dapperdan]

I follow Vito Stalino on Twitter and he detailed it lat night. I can try to find if that is anywhere else.

[duvaldude08]

I follow Vito Stalino on Twitter and he detailed it lat night. I can try to find if that is anywhere else.

If so, its not a bad idea. For example, it only takes 50,957 for us to lift blackouts. If were, say 2,000 short of lifitng the blackouts, buy the tickets, but then have an attendance of 63,000, we really didnt lose. We bought 2,000 tickets to get on TV, and then sold an additional 13,000 tickets.

But you know, these fools in Tampa are killing me. Stop whinning about blackouts. And its funny everyone is saying "poor tampa" and that the NFL needs to change their rules. But when it was use, the rule was just fine. Their excuse is "its hard to sell tickets when people cant see the product.." Well you know what, no one seen our product in 2009, and we sold the most new season tickets in the NFL in 2010. Cut the bull crap tampa.

[fsujax]

i am getting excited about Sunday! would love to see a packed house.

[Bridges]

Looks like I was wrong. The  bowl is not sold out all season. The Jags are just going to televise all games regardless. Kahn would rather pay the 34 cents on the dollar to the NFL for unsold tickets and end the blackout and ticket counting game every week.

Also, in a  bit of interesting related news, on Saturdays, you can go get a 20 dollar game certificate. With this cetificate, you are guaranteed a seat on Sunday, but you have no idea where. Also, you can buy up to 4, but no guarantee all the tickets will be together. This is a great deal for people who want to get in and see a game, but never had enough money. It might be bad for a fan who paid 60 bucks for their seat to see someone waltz up and pay 20 bucks for a seat next to them, but we need to get those holes filled somehow. This 20 dollar seat buyer may turn into a season ticket buyer Thoughts?

Dan where did you read that? They basically said sales are looking very good and black outs are not in the conversation for this season. No one said they were buying unsold  the tickets all season to televise the games. Or did I miss something? Nto a jab at you, but you know I am very fact based.

The coin flip game tickets and the blackout unsold seats are 2 different things.

I was at a lunch with Mark Lamping yesterday.  The coin flip tickets are last minute tickets made available along with several "orphan" tickets.  Regardless of what you hear, every single team in the NFL has to buy tickets every week because some are made available.  The visiting team didn't use all their tickets and gives some back the day before, employees of the organization use less tickets than requested, etc.  Those tickets, along with "Orphan" seats (those seats that are sandwiched between season ticket holders.  Such as the middle seat in a row of 13 seats where 6 season ticket holders on one side and six on the other).  Lamping said that these seats and the last minute extras amount to about 1500 seats.  The coin flip ticket idea is a novel one to the NFL.  Should be interesting to see how it works out.

As for season ticket holders getting upset.  I wouldn't.  I mean you pay $20 you have no idea where you are sitting until you walk into the stadium.  They might as well just call it the Bud Light Zone Cover Charge. 

The blackout number is something different, and I believe there are tickets still available.  But Khan and Lamping are determined to remove Jacksonville from the Blackout talk.  Think about it, we haven't had a blackout in 2 years and yet, it's still the first thing outsiders talk about.  But that's because we talked about it too much too.  We had a blackout gas gauge, we announced every week that we would ask for a 24 hour extension to sell tickets, only to announce in 24 hours that the blackout was lifted.  In order to get rid of this association, they've decided that they will not blackout any games, nor talk about it.  That's why it's a little confusing about the ticket sales.  We're so used to talking about blackouts.  The term blackout is in our lexicon when talking about the Jaguars.  We're still searching for the number now.  What they're saying is, forget the number, forget the blackout, doesn't matter.  We're going to grow this brand, and we're going to grow it differently than we have and differently than the other 31 teams in the NFL.