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Bengals Game To Be Blacked Out For First Time Since 2003

10 September 2009
AFC
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For the first time since 2003, a Bengals regular-season game is unlikely to air on television in Greater Cincinnati.

The team’s record 44-game sellout streak of regular-season and postseason contests at Paul Brown Stadium will end at 1 p.m. Thursday unless the NFL grants an extension on ticket sales.

On Wednesday, the Bengals would say only that “a few thousand” tickets remain for Sunday’s 1 p.m. opener against Denver.

The number of tickets appears to be closer to 5,000.

Per NFL rules, a game must be sold out 72 hours before kickoff for it to air within a 75-mile radius of the team’s home market. If the game is close to a sellout, the league may grant a 24-hour extension.

Even fans who subscribe to DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket, who pay nearly $250 for the season-long package, would not be able to watch the game locally. Besides Cincinnati, the game would not air on CBS affiliates in Dayton and Lexington. The nearest market to show the game would be Columbus.

During the past week, the Bengals announced a partnership with the United Way designed to spur ticket sales, and offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth and linebacker Keith Rivers did radio and TV interviews to try to drum up support. Not even the popularity of the HBO special “Hard Knocks: Training Camp” has helped ticket sales.

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