7,000 Tickets Remain for Sunday's Game
by Sean Yuille on Nov 18, 2009 5:18 PM EST
in Detroit Lions News
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PrintIt looks like Sunday's game between the Lions and Browns is headed for a blackout. 7,000 tickets are still available for Sunday's game, and the deadline to reach a sellout is 1 p.m. tomorrow. Of course, if the Lions somehow sell a few thousand tickets and show that they can reach a sellout, then a 24-hour extension will be granted on the deadline. If that doesn't happen, though, the game will almost certainly be blacked out.
So far this season there have only been two blackouts -- when the Redskins and Rams came to Detroit. Before the Rams game was officially ruled a blackout, there were around 10,000 tickets, so having only 7,000 available is at least an improvement.
The Lions have another home game a week from tomorrow, but considering that is the Thanksgiving game and the Packers are Detroit's opponent, there is no chance that will be blacked out. Even last year the Lions sold out the Thanksgiving game against the Titans, so with Green Bay coming to town, I'd bet on it being sold out. I'd also bet on seeing a lot of cheese heads at Ford Field. It's less than ideal to have opposing fans take over your team's stadium, but if that means I can actually watch the game, I'm fine with it.
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Next 8 days are super important.
Win or lose agasint the Browns, we better win, but we have to play them well … then with the Thanksgiving day game, a game that is a big part of Michigan Holiday tradition and a game in which may be the only game some people watch all year or one of the few they can, a guy like me who has to work the weekends a lot, they have another egg like the last few years on Thanksgiving, they’ll give the stupid game to other teams, and then I’ll have to eat dinner watching Buffalo v. Miami????
On a side note, my father spends from Nov 13th until Early December up int he northern Penisula Deer hunting, he tells me that years the Lions plays the Packers during the strecth every bar from St. Igance to Kenosha is full of beer, loud voices and segregated into two halves that can’t wait to tell the other half their team won, if ya know what I mean… He told me he would like to once be on the winning side.
They do bad on the Lions/Michigan High Holy Game and do bad against the Browns after the last few years I can see many people I know breaking. I’ve heard it, These 8 days are the biggest in a long long time, this is not for making the NFL or winning the NFL playoffs … these games are the playoffs for the heart and soul of a great deal of its fan base.
Isn't this one of the few matchups that we actually have a good history against them?
Don’t we tend to get the better of the Browns? I hope that continues.
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
Memories...
In 1989 (I had to look it up), I got to attend the Thanksgiving Day game between the Lions and the Browns in the Silverdome; my first NFL game. I’ll never forget the cloud of smoke that hung trapped by the dome or the Browns fans’ sign “Lions got the Heisman winner, but we got Metcalf and he’s better!”. That Heisman winner, at least, worked out pretty well.
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