Jags V/S Titans - Monday Night Football in Jacksonville

[Steve]

What is the difference between the number needed to avoid a blackout and an actual sellout?

50,957 vs 67,164.  The latter number is the stadium capaciy (including covers).  From the  67K number, the club seats, suites, terrace suites, visiting team allotment, and I believe handicapped seats are taken out of there.  Many of those are sold, but have no affect on the blackout number

[Steve]

I wouldn't count on that, there is probably something in the agreement that says the Jags can't buy up tickets to avoid paying Everbank if a game is blacked out.

No, they could.  NFL policy says that Weaver can buy the unsold seats at .34c per dollar to get the game on TV.  He has said publicy that he won't though. They did that for a long time, and all it did was train people that they could just watch on TV.

[BridgeTroll]

Thanks Steve.  Have we sold out any games this year?

[duvaldude08]

At this point I say no news is good news.

[Dapperdan]

Blackout has been lifted. No need for WJXT to have even run that story. Dumb.

[Steve]

Thanks Steve.  Have we sold out any games this year?

There are actually only two times in our history that were true "sellouts".  In 2004 against Pittsburgh (that was when the capacity was 76,877 - no covers - , and anyone who was at that game remembers the 20,000 steelers fans), and in 2007 against the Colts, at the current capacity of 67,164.

Every other game in our history, there were at least a couple of seats not sold.

[Steve]

Blackout has been lifted. No need for WJXT to have even run that story. Dumb.

Was it Dumb?  If the Jaguars sold a couple more tickets because of it, I bet Wayne Waver wouldn't have thought it was dumb.

[Wacca Pilatka]

There are actually only two times in our history that were true "sellouts".  In 2004 against Pittsburgh (that was when the capacity was 76,877 - no covers - , and anyone who was at that game remembers the 20,000 steelers fans), and in 2007 against the Colts, at the current capacity of 67,164.

Every other game in our history, there were at least a couple of seats not sold.

According to the 2006 tickets distributed figures, I think 5 of the 8 home games that year were true sellouts, with 67,164 listed as tickets distributed.  I think it was the Cowboys, Steelers, Colts, Giants, and Patriots.

[Uh Duh]

There is no mention of TV4 airing the game in the story posted at Jaguars.com.  They do say it will be televised nationally on espn.

[duvaldude08]

I also read on Jacksonville.com that the Titans have returned some of their allotment which means its just more room for the Jags who like to purchase tickets at the last minute. We need to teal the stadium out.

[tufsu1]

There is no mention of TV4 airing the game in the story posted at Jaguars.com.  They do say it will be televised nationally on espn.

when games are shown on cable, a local station is allowed to simulcast....and those local stations usually buy up the tickets so it can be shown (happened in Philly several times when I lived there in the early 1990s)

[Bativac]

There is no mention of TV4 airing the game in the story posted at Jaguars.com.  They do say it will be televised nationally on espn.

when games are shown on cable, a local station is allowed to simulcast....and those local stations usually buy up the tickets so it can be shown (happened in Philly several times when I lived there in the early 1990s)

Yeah, last night during the late news, Sam Kouvaris confirmed that TV4 will be showing the game. Along with two or three hours of pregame stuff. And probably an hour of post game.

I'm not a football fan but it'd be nice for the Jaguars to win just to get the national media to maybe, possibly ease up a bit on the Jax bashing. Can't remember how many article headlines I read on the internet, prior to the Buffalo game, that said something like "the Bills will finally have a guaranteed win this week against the weak Jacksonville team."

[duvaldude08]

Just got my ticket in the mail! Im so ready!

[urbanlibertarian]

See ya there, Dude!

[BridgeTroll]

My issue with the local advertising and marketing of Jags tix is that it seems to stop as soon as the "Blackout has been lifted" benchmark has been reached.  Local news both TV and radio have refered to the Monday night game as sold out when in fact 10 - 15k tickets are still available.