Charger Fans! Save Some Sorrow & Watch the LPGA This Weekend!
by Ryan Ballengee on Sep 16, 2009 12:29 AM EDT
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I don't know if you were able to force yourself through watching the second half of the Monday Night Football doubleheader the other night. Between Mike & Mike doing the play by play or the paper match up of the Oakland Raiders against the far superior San Diego Chargers, it was tough to get excited for the game.
Charger fans had to walk away from the game even less excited than they started. It took a score with 18 seconds left to play to skirt past a club whose head coach is under investigation for assaulting a member of HIS OWN STAFF.
Well, this weekend, the wounded Chargers get to make their home debut at their outdated ballpark - the stadium formerly known as Jack Murphy Stadium. And, rightfully so, they might not sell out the stadium.
When it comes to the NFL, if fans don't sell out their stadium for home games, then the league penalizes the fans on the couch by blacking out the game on TV. As Tod Leonard reports in the San Diego Union-Tribune, that may well benefit the LPGA Tour. This weekend, the LPGA returns to San Diego for the first time in sixteen years for the 20 player Samsung World Championship at Torrey Pines. No Chargers on TV may mean better ratings and attendance for the LPGA, playing in the heart of golf crazy San Diego.
Who would you rather watch: Paula Creamer or Norv Turner?
Weigh the prospect of watching Norv Turner under-utilize a roster with deep talent against the Baltimore Ravens defense or watch a twenty player field of the best LPGA players in the world. It is not exactly a slam dunk decision.
Let's be serious, though. The odds of a Charger fan potentially cheering on a guy (UMD alum Shawne Merriman) that is accused of whooping a reality star's ass is much higher than them coming down to Torrey Pines to catch some great golf action.
A shout out to SBJ's Jon Show for the tip on the story by Tod!
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Well – I think I’ve figured out why RB doesn’t understand how golf doesn’t get better ratings against the NFL. RB – if you’ll watch the guys in the helmets on the field instead of the coach on the sideline… :-D (J/K)
That blackout rule is kind of bizarre. You have to sell out a certain percentage of your stadium so people living within 50 miles of the stadium can watch on TV. We had to put up with it here in Atlanta for…well…MOST of the 41 years the team has been around. What bugs me are the teams that cheat. They tarp off the upper level of their stadium to cut down the “number of seats in the stadium”. Any idiot could walk in the stadium and say “no – there are seats under that tarp. Do you think we’re that dumb ?”
I’m with you – let’s hope some people who would normally be sitting at home watching the Bolts on TV will get up and out to the golf course to see if Paula Creamer is actually wearing that dress on the course…or playing with a Slotline putter ! ;-)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
by courtgolf on Sep 16, 2009 9:40 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The way that Jacksonville tarps off several sections of the upper deck is so gross.
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by Ryan Ballengee on Sep 16, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
cheating?
Who suffers as a result of management blocking sections of seats? Certainly not the fans who benefit from local television showing the game as a result of the faux sellout. If seats at an NFL game are subject to the same rules of supply and demand as any other business, then team ownership is justified in reducing the inventory at its discretion. The alternative would be to tear the section down.
Other alternatives: Field a team that gets people excited enough to want to see the game in-person. Decrease ticket prices so that it takes less than a week’s pay to get into the stadium.
Truth has a well-known liberal bias.
by dianemarie on Sep 16, 2009 10:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Arthur Blank did exactly what you’re talking about, D. When he took over the Falcons, we hadn’t seen a home game on TV other than the occassional Dallas Cowgirls game in years.
As soon as he got his chair under the owner’s desk, he started selling upper deck season tickets for $100 (8 season plus 2 pre-season games). People flocked to the stadium to buy in and that 72,000 seat circus tent was filled. Two years later, he raised the price to $150 and people still bought in. (the ticket price was to cover Michael Vick’s new contract…thanks a pantload Mike)
Arthur Blank is a hell of an owner – he understands the importance of putting butts in seats – and it isn’t always about the biggest names – sometimes it’s about having seats people can afford.
Now that we have a real NFL QB, the Dome is going to be filled for a lot of years to come – no matter what the seats cost.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
by courtgolf on Sep 16, 2009 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
we hadn’t seen a home game on TV other than the occassional Dallas Cowgirls game in years.
Please don’t insult women like that; they’re the Dallas Cowpukes 8-)
I’ll be interested to see if the Bungles ownership ever decides to put a competitive team on the field. By competitive I mean leading the league in something other than arrests. They sold out here this past week — first regular season game. Since they lost on a “fluke” play, the next home game stands a chance of selling out as well. In the not too distant past the only sellouts were when Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indy or Tennessee would play here because Cincinnati is close enough for people from those cities to drive.
Truth has a well-known liberal bias.
by dianemarie on Sep 16, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There must be something in the water in Cinncy – the Bungles AND the Deads have a lot of talent, but they suffer huge numbers of injuries, not to mention the ones who just lose their mind…right Ocho ?
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
by courtgolf on Sep 16, 2009 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have called them the Cow*pies* for quite a while. They haven’t won a playoff game in this millennium.
by Old Man Par on Sep 17, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Watch Philip Rivers or LPGA golf? After all, who tunes into a Chargers game to watch Norv Turner? Who watches a Dallas game to watch Wade Philips? Or even a NE game to watch who-ever-the-hell it is that is their coach? (I kid, I know perfectly well who Bill Belichick is.)
…think I will put the golf on the DVR.
by Old Man Par on Sep 16, 2009 12:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Haha, I just wanted to make fun of Norv. He is truly awful.
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by Ryan Ballengee on Sep 16, 2009 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
maybe post-season awful – he sure gets a lot of teams to the playoffs.
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
by courtgolf on Sep 16, 2009 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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