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Chiefs avoid local TV blackout

The Kansas City Chiefs’ sellout streak lives for another week.

Although a local TV blackout looked inevitable earlier this week, the Chiefs announced today that Sunday’s game with the Buffalo Bills at Arrowhead Stadium will be televised locally. It’s the Chiefs’ 156th consecutive sellout, a streak that goes back 19 years.

But it wasn’t easy for the Chiefs to sell out Sunday’s game. They first had to ask for and receive a 24-hour extension to the NFL’s usual blackout deadline of 72 hours before kickoff, and the local CBS affiliate says it helped all it could.

A week from now the Chiefs may have an even more difficult time selling out Arrowhead Stadium, as they’re hosting the Browns.

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7 Responses to “Chiefs avoid local TV blackout”
  1. fanman says: Dec 11, 2009 1:14 PM

    It’s a pretty sad state of affairs here in KC. It wasn’t that long ago that this was the hardest ticket in town to get. Now, you can barely give them away. Hopefully the front office realizes that in order to sell out the games, you need to put a good product on the field, or this kind of thing happens. I’ll be thinking twice before I renew my season tickets for next year. Here’s to hoping that the Chiefs look decent on Sunday.

  2. slipkid says: Dec 11, 2009 1:15 PM

    hell they will beat the browns
    they may win 2 games in a row again i bet

  3. magsdad1 says: Dec 11, 2009 1:24 PM

    Chiefs vs. Browns.
    Like watching a car accident in slow motion. Vrabel might have to give himself the finger in that one.

  4. CaseyInKC says: Dec 11, 2009 1:35 PM

    I hate to say I told you so… but…

  5. straverse says: Dec 11, 2009 1:42 PM

    The Chiefs should roll over the Browns though. I mean, the Browns could hardly beat the lowly Steelers last night.

  6. Colossus7 says: Dec 11, 2009 2:44 PM

    Poor Chiefs fan will be subjected to watching them play…

  7. Gautam says: Dec 11, 2009 3:56 PM

    Browns at Chiefs – two teams that beat the “World” champions over the past few weeks …. what a matchup woohoo!
    it will be a thriller like the Lions-Browns game fosho

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