Sunday, October 4, 2009

BUCK UP OR BLACKOUT!!

So not only does the NFL force Joe Buck upon us like some kind of creepy uncle pulling you in to sit on his lap, but now they're telling fans to buck up your hard earned cash in this down turned economy or be blacked out. Turns out more people saw the Detroit Lions beat the Redskins in my apartment than probably in all of Detroit. Some 40,000 people in Detroit,Lansing, and surrounding counties got blacked out on sunday because the lions, a team that had lost 19 straight games, could not sell enough tickets. So in a time when families are dining in and taking staycations, in a time when people are trading clunkers for cash and hosting sell your gold parties, the NFL is saying too bad. Long referred to as the no fun league the NFL is living up to its nickname by demanding families spend there money at the stadium or be subject to local blackouts. See it here or see it nowhere!! That's the new NFL motto. In a market with a growing unemployment rate, a whopping 28.9 %, the NFL had the nerve to blackout a lions game because the Ford family couldn't sell enough tickets to the people they've been laying off. What's next? Where does it end? Will they next try to tell us we must buy a $7 hot dog, perphaps if they don"t sell enough beer by halftime the teams will not come out for the second half, drink up people we have a game to finish. The term "blackout" should be reserved for power outages, what the NFL is doing is more considered strong arming. Pay or else!!

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