Battle of Ohio blacked out in Cincinnati

[dazed&confused]

Battle of Ohio gets blacked out in Cincy
Posted by Mike Florio on December 17, 2010, 10:00 AM EST
That seven-year streak of sellouts in Cincinnati quickly has become a three-game streak of blackouts.

And counting.

Sunday’s Browns-Bengals game, a Battle of Ohio that in a round-robin tournament a certain college team headquartered in Columbus possibly would win, won’t be televised in and around Paul Brown Stadium due to lack of ticket sales.

According to Sean McClelland of the Dayton Daily News, it’s the first non-sellout of a Browns-Bengals game in a non-strike year since 1979.

We’re not sure what relevance the non-strike designation has, other than to permit the streak to extend back farther than 1987 and/or 1982.

WOW!

[ace63]

Bengal fans will not go to games when things are bad, trying to force managemt to field a better product. Quite a few have turned in there season tickets and fans are asking people with box seats to turn them down for next year. We will not fill a stadium with the product on the field. Fans have to react or see much of the same.

[ace63]

I have time warner and the game is on WBNS out of columbus.

[Orange and Brown]

Who wants to watch 2 BAD teams play! Both franchises have been ruined year after year with bad coaching and bad management decisions.

[ace63]

Who wants to watch 2 BAD teams play! Both franchises have been ruined year after year with bad coaching and bad management decisions.

It gets the women out of the house and lets the guys get together and drink BEER. and eat. Play cards.

[Orange and Brown]

Who wants to watch 2 BAD teams play! Both franchises have been ruined year after year with bad coaching and bad management decisions.

It gets the women out of the house and lets the guys get together and drink BEER. and eat. Play cards.

Point taken...

[Charge]

I would like to call and thank them for blacking it out, now maybe we can watch a game with two teams that are in the playoff hunt.

[OZZIEOHIO]

I dont care how bad they are, i want my Browns on every week and I will watch them.

[Steely Dan]

Ahhhh, finally, the NFL shows the people of SW Ohio mercy and blackout what is sure to be a pathetic display of "professional" football. Folks in the Cincinnati MSA get a break for once, and may actually get to see a good game on local TV Sunday!

[OZZIEOHIO]

My tv guide says it will be on here in Portsmouth.

[ace63]

Its on in athens

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

I'LL HAVE TO SEE IF IT'S ON HERE IN WAVERLY. I WANNA SEE THE BENGALS , REGARDLESS.

[seofan_via_dublin]

The blackout is a 70 mile radius, it keeps people who stayed at home instead of going to the game from watching it on tv.

I applaud my fellow Bengal fans for not giving mike brown any more money.

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

suppossed to be on here.

[ace63]

Hey !!!!!!!!! Can you smell those baby back ribs cooking down south !!!!! Lot of sauce, there going to be messy.
FOOTBALL today baby.

[biggdowgg]

they should have blacked it out state wide...both these teams are a discrace to the NFL.

[ace63]

:122246

[noreply66]

I could see there were a lot of empty seats

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

i watched it here.