3 Playoff games not sold out yet

[manchild98]

GB still has 11,000 unsold tickets!


GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Perhaps Green Bay Packers fans have little faith in this year's team.

How else to explain why as of Tuesday evening there were 11,000 tickets still remaining, according to a team spokesperson, for Sunday's NFC playoff game at Lambeau Field against the San Francisco 49ers?

The Packers have a streak of 319 consecutive sellouts (301 regular-season games and 18 playoff games) and nearly 100,000 people on their season-ticket waiting list.

Green Bay isn't the only team having trouble selling out for this weekend's games, with the Indianapolis Colts and Cincinnati Bengals also faced with thousands of unsold tickets.

The Colts, who have sold out 137 of their last 138 games, have 5,700 tickets remaining that they need to sell to avoid having their Saturday game against the Kansas City Chiefs blacked out in the Indianapolis area.

NFL rules say teams must sell out games at least 72 hours prior to kickoff to ensure they will be shown on local television. The league extended the deadline to Thursday at 4:30 p.m. because Wednesday is a holiday.

In Cincinnati, Jeff Berding, the Bengals' director of sales and public affairs, said late Monday that after a good day of sales, more than 10,000 tickets remained for Sunday's game at Paul Brown Stadium against the San Diego Chargers. That number dipped below 10,000 tickets later Tuesday afternoon.

In an effort to sell more tickets, the Bengals kept their ticket office open on New Year's Eve and will do the same New Year's Day. According to Berding, the office will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday

 

[sggatecl]

If it were in Detroit, those would be gone in minutes.

 

[biggunsbob]

Yup... Gone in seconds...

 

[tigermud]

The NFL must be proud! yippy we had an 8-7-1 division winner this year, yeahh!! And i'll bet they even beat SF because it's at GB! yippy again 8-7-1 team advances to the second round. You know what's going to happen right?

Somewhere down the line they'll mix it all up again and make it so that you are not assured a playoff spot just for winning the Div, that will be the year the Lions finally win the Div again. You know it!!

 

[biggunsbob]

yup...

 

[manchild98]

The Cincinnati Bengals, Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts all were granted ticket-sale deadline extensions from the NFL on Thursday.

The Packers joined that list after they came up about 3,000 tickets short of selling out 80,750-seat Lambeau Field for Sunday's NFC wild-card playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers.

A Packers spokesperson said the league gave them until 5 p.m. ET on Friday to sell the remaining tickets and avoid a television blackout in their home market, which includes both the Green Bay and Milwaukee areas.

The Packers began the week with 40,000 tickets available.

The Bengals have until 4 p.m. ET Friday to sell the remaining tickets to Sunday's first-round AFC playoff game against the San Diego Chargers.

Late Thursday afternoon, there was no official word as to how many Bengals tickets were left. The team's Twitter account accidentally floated the number 3,500 before being quickly deleted. Team officials later said they weren't able to provide an exact figure, only noting that it was low enough for an extension to be granted.

Many of the Bengals tickets purchased Thursday came from local businesses that are planning to donate them to local military families. By the end of business Wednesday, Bengals director of sales and public affairs Jeff Berding said about 8,000 tickets remained.

The NFL gave the Colts a second extension to try to sell their remaining 3,000 tickets for Saturday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs to avoid having it blacked out in the Indianapolis area.

The Colts have until 4:30 p.m. ET Friday to sell their remaining tickets. The Colts have sold out 137 of their past 138 games.

 

[cheeno]

Okay so the asshole nfl charges you for two home games at exorbitant prices two weeks before Christmas and you don't get your money back... and it is the fans fault. Det, GB, and Chicago were all sent playoff ticket notices to season ticket holders due Dec 12. Do the math minimum 4 tickets (unless you go by yourself to games all season) at $70-300 dollars each. Greedy bastards serves them right.

 

[mhughes0021]

teams that didn't sell out were given an extension until fri.....they need to sell our ot they'll be blacked out lmao.

 

[tigermud]

They are projecting -8 now temp for the GB/SF game, that's pretty damn cold.

 

[lgolfer]

Update: All 3 games sell out
http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/201...y-packers-get-sellout-cincinnati-bengals-wait

 

[JScottWriter]

I was hoping GB wouldn't sell out so the NFL might not kiss their ass a much.

 

[manchild98]

The "Ice Bowl," one of the most iconic games in NFL history, had a wind chill of minus-48 degrees. It's almost inhuman to play football in that weather.

And Sunday's game at Green Bay might be even colder than that.

According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the bad forecast for Green Bay's game against the 49ers got worse. According to AccuWeather, the high will be minus-five degrees, the low will be minus-20 and the wind chill will be ... MINUS-51 DEGREES.

No wonder Green Bay was having trouble selling out this game.

The "Ice Bowl" is the coldest game in NFL history, at minus-13 degrees. The coldest game in NFL history in terms of wind chill was the Chargers-Bengals AFC title game in January of 1982, at 59 degrees below zero. This game has a chance to threaten both of those records.

The second-coldest game in Lambeau Field history was the NFC championship game against the Giants at the end of the 2007 season, at minus-one degree. That mark is definitely in danger.