When the time comes to sift through the games that will and won’t be blacked out locally in a given week, we usually rely on press releases and/or Google. But we’ve got a much more immediate and reliable barometer for determining whether the Jaguars have managed to sell all non-premium tickets.
Former Jaguars tackle Tony Boselli tells us, via Twitter.
“If you guys are in Jax this weekend you catch the Jag game on local TV,” Boselli tweeted earlier this hour. “Big game vs. Philly & Vick.”
It means that the Jaguars, fueled by the return of a Vick to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for the first time since the day Marcus treated Elvis Dumervil’s leg like a flaming sack of poo in the Gator Bowl, have sold enough tickets to lift the blackout.
As of Wednesday, roughly 1,000 seats remained, which (per CBSSports.com) prompted Jags running back Maurice Jones-Drew to urge the Vick-influenced media horde to help the cause.
“All you guys should by a ticket,’' Jones-Drew said. “There’s about 1,000 people here, there’s usually like three.”
It’s the second sellout in two regular-season home games for the Jaguars. Last year, they sold out only one game.
As a result, we’ve got two things to say to our friends in Jacksonville: (1) congrats; and (2) keep it up.