Colts Facing Blackouts

[floridaraven]

I hear the Mayflower trucks are backing up, loading and heading to LA. I think before Manning, the Colts had a few empty seats as well.

[floridaraven]

True football fans show up no matter how bad the team sucks. Look at the washington deadskins, the Giants in the 60's and 70's sucked and still sold out. Colts fans are fair weather and if Luck = Suck the Colts will be playing home games in London.
Ravens have never had a blackout.

The Eagles and Saints had a hard time filling their stadiums in the 90's. Today they are two of the best franchises.

[tigercruise]

What goes around comes around. I hope they move to China.

[CharmCityCrab]

Let's just hope if they move again, they start fresh with a new name, logo, and uniforms; and new franchise records.

Of course, the problem is now, that even if they retired the Colts name today, Manning has left the type of legacy in Indy that we could no longer just remember the Baltimore Colts and consider the Indianapolis years a sad footnote or coda. A great quarterback, a Super Bowl, team records being rewritten, etc.. I don't like to be sad about other people's happiness, but in a way the team's recent success ensured that even after the next relocation (If it happens), the Indianapolis years will never fade away completely in the popular psyche and let the name be retired in Baltimore where in belongs.

Of course, that team isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I'm going to grant that their fan base sucks, has always sucked, and probably will always suck, but the city just built Lucas Oil Field, what, two years ago? Even if all their home games get blacked out or something, the NFL is never going to let a team move from a city that just built them a new stadium a couple years ago. It'd be brought up everytime a team demands a new stadium until the end of time- and other teams would have real trouble getting replacements when their existing stadiums get run down, because politicians would point to this and say "What guarantee do we have that we're not going to spend half a billion dollars and have the team bolt within a few years, leaving us with an expensive boondoggle?".

I think the stadium guarantees at least 15 more years of that team in Indianapolis, no matter how poorly they draw at the gate.

[mcorioles]

just the mere mention of blackouts is a total embarrassment for the Indy franchise what a bunch of fair weather fans.Guarantee we will see half empty upper decks by game 8.

[sirguy]

If I remember correctly the State picked up the tab for empty seats in the old RCA dome. I don't know if that will be the case with Oil Spill Stadium but anything bad that happens to them is just the arc of the Universe bending towards justice.

[18-87-44-29]

A terrible sports town.

Horsefeathers.

And if we're a 'terrible sports town'.....what is Baltimore?

[demopublican]

Will any proteam sell out a game in Indy this year?

[mcorioles]

Horsefeathers.

And if we're a 'terrible sports town'.....what is Baltimore?

16 years and every game sold out that's what Baltimore is.

[LarryN]

16 years and every game sold out that's what Baltimore is.

Even with Stoney Case as the QB.

[ivanbalt]

Horsefeathers.

And if we're a 'terrible sports town'.....what is Baltimore?

Baltimore = city who's football team isn't facing blackouts

[Brohan]

NFL waiting lists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_sea..._waiting_lists

Hilarious bit from this link on ro-oom-222's real favorite team.

The Washington Redskins were reported to have the most number of names on their waiting list at over 150,000. However, recent investigations question if a waiting list exists at all,[9] which would seem to contradict the fact that FedExField has demolished 10,000 seats heading into the 2011 season. The New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Denver Broncos historically have also maintained long waiting lists for season tickets.[1]