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Teams are not selling out for PLAYOFF games...
Bengals, Colts, Packers struggling to sell tickets for Wild-Card Weekend...
The NFL made it through the 2013 regular season with just two games blacked out on local TV due to sluggish ticket sales. Could that number be matched during this weekend’s wild-card round?
Cincinnati, Green Bay and Indianapolis all reportedly have thousands of tickets still available for Saturday’s and Sunday’s action, leaving all three spots in danger of falling shy of a sellout. Teams generally must have all tickets sold out 72 hours prior to a home game or risk that game being blacked out within a 75-mile radius of the stadium.
According to the Indianapolis Star‘s Mike Chappell, the Colts already have asked for and been granted by the league an extension on their window until 4:30 p.m. ET Thursday — 48 hours before Indianapolis’ game with Kansas City. Chappell reported that the Colts were still 6,000 tickets shy of a sellout as of Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, that number was at 10,000 as of late Monday. The Bengals host San Diego at 1 p.m. ET Sunday, meaning they need to unload the remainder of those tickets by Thursday afternoon (or request an extension of their own).
“We need to do everyday what we did today,” Jeff Berding, the team’s director of sales and public affairs, told CincyJungle.com of his hopes that Bengals fans can replicate their ticket-buying pace from Monday.
Cincinnati, Green Bay and Indianapolis all reportedly have thousands of tickets still available for Saturday’s and Sunday’s action, leaving all three spots in danger of falling shy of a sellout. Teams generally must have all tickets sold out 72 hours prior to a home game or risk that game being blacked out within a 75-mile radius of the stadium.
According to the Indianapolis Star‘s Mike Chappell, the Colts already have asked for and been granted by the league an extension on their window until 4:30 p.m. ET Thursday — 48 hours before Indianapolis’ game with Kansas City. Chappell reported that the Colts were still 6,000 tickets shy of a sellout as of Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, in Cincinnati, that number was at 10,000 as of late Monday. The Bengals host San Diego at 1 p.m. ET Sunday, meaning they need to unload the remainder of those tickets by Thursday afternoon (or request an extension of their own).
“We need to do everyday what we did today,” Jeff Berding, the team’s director of sales and public affairs, told CincyJungle.com of his hopes that Bengals fans can replicate their ticket-buying pace from Monday.
http://nfl.si.com/2013/12/31/wild-card-weekend-tickets-bengals-colts-packers/?eref=sihp
I heard tonight on the news that the Bengals were not close to selling out.
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That's a working class area, unlike wealthy areas such as Denver. If I still lived in WI, I'd go a month without groceries just to be able to go. 
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Does that include LOWERING the ticket prices? And what about lowering the parking and concession prices, too, while you're at it?
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and still leave enough money left over for beer. 
Colts owner Jim Irsay announced Friday on Twitter that the final 1,200 tickets available for Saturday’s Kansas City vs. Indianapolis postseason contest had been purchased by Meijer, a supermarket chain, which planned to donate those tickets to military families. The Colts needed two extensions from the NFL to avoid the local (75-mile radius) TV blackout that comes as penalty for not selling out a game.
The Bengals, who host San Diego on Sunday afternoon, also appear to be nearing a sellout thanks to help from the business sector. Kroger, another multi-state supermarket chain, purchased “a large quantity of tickets” for the playoff game, also with the intent of providing those tickets to military families. Cincinnati originally had until 1 p.m. ET Thursday to lock in a sellout, then asked for an extension as well.
The last game of wild-card weekend, San Francisco at Green Bay, is also within striking distance of a sellout — despite wind-chill temperatures expected to dip near minus-30 around kickoff late Sunday afternoon. The Packers announced Thursday that 3,000 tickets were left for that contest, then dropped that estimated number down to about 1,000 on Friday...
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