Anyone know this?
As if the NFLs greed wasn't enough already....
Full article in link, i posted partial:

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/fact/...cc4c03286.html
Teams are allowed to buy unused tickets at 34 cents on the dollar -- the visiting team's share -- and declare a sellout," Union-Tribune sports columnist, Tim Sullivan in this column, Sept. 18.

Determination: True

Analysis: Union-Tribune columnist Tim Sullivan calculated that it would have cost the team about $220,000 to buy the unsold tickets and avoid the blackout of its first home game earlier this month.

The loss of the money, apparently, outweighs the loss of good will with fans.

He was correct in his analysis.

New York Newsday columnist Neil Best set the nation of football abuzz this summer when he discovered that NFL teams could purchase any unsold tickets to their home games at a steep discount. Doing that would spare fans -- along with local bars and restaurants -- a blackout of the live broadcast of the games.

As Best revealed, home teams can buy unsold tickets at 34 cents on the dollar and ensure that the game is televised across the region.

The games are blacked out for a radius of 75 miles around the unfilled stadium.

Sullivan did a little math and discovered that if 8,000 tickets remained unsold, it would have cost the Chargers about $221,380 to ensure that there was no blackout. This is based on the average ticket price at Qualcomm Stadium. And as Sullivan noted, the real price would probably be lower considering that the unsold tickets were probably priced lower than the average of all tickets.