IndyStar: Potential TV blackout is a black eye for NFL, not cities
No, the possibility of a blackout is not an embarrassment for the city of Indianapolis, any more than it's an embarrassment for Cincinnati or Green Bay (which has sold out every game since 1959, except for a 1983 playoff game during the strike-shortened year).
It's an embarrassment for the NFL, which continues to handle postseason tickets in a way that makes it too difficult to sell out stadiums for the country's most beloved and popular sport.
It's an embarrassment for a league that only had two blackouts all season, and hasn't had a playoff blackout since 2002.
It's an embarrassment, a black eye, for the NFL, which overprices playoff tickets — and this, right after the holidays — and leaves fans with too little time to get themselves together in order to make a purchase.
This doesn't require any civic navel gazing; this does require the NFL to take a long, hard look in the mirror. This is not Indy's problem, not Cincinnati's problem, not Green Bay's problem. It's the NFL's problem.
http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/kravitz/2014/01/02/kravitz-potential-tv-blackout-is-a-black-eye-for-nfl-not-indianapolis/4297657/
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These professional sports organizations should not receive any help from the taxpayers to build their stupid stadiums!! 