This is very discouraging from my standpoint. There is still a ton of tickets on Ticketmaster and even more on the secondary market. Has a playoff game ever been blacked out before? I haven't heard anyone reporting this but the deadline is tonight and there are still a nice chunk of tickets unsold. I'll be there but there is going to be a ton of green there and probably some empty seats.
Yep which means that most of my fellow season ticket holder did not purchase playoff tickets which means unsold tickets. With a team that supposedly has a 15,000 person season ticket wait list, you would think those people would snatch them up quick. Our fans are getting complacent.
Why would Indy fans not buy the tickets for what is most likely their only home playoff game? I don't understand..
Very funny........ It is a combination of things. We have had a ton of playoff games here over the last decade, a bunch of the season ticket holders are actually ticket scalpers that did not purchase playoff tickets this year, and no one is expecting a lot of the Colts this year. Same thing happened in 2006, everyone expected Larry Johnson to truck us, the RCA Dome was like 20% Chiefs fans and then when we played the Patsies magically there were almost no Cheatriot fans there.
Huh? I'm not trying to be funny, I didn't mean for it to sound like I was sure that we'd beat you guys. You guys aren't the 1 or 2 seed so the most likely scenario (if you beat us, of course) is that you'll play @New England and @ Pittsburgh...
It's a national game, it can't be blacked out I don't think. That's crazy that it isn't sold out though, especially since it will likely be the only home playoff game, win or lose.
It can be blacked out, it likely won't be as usually the team or the local TV station broadcasting the game(their NBC affiliate) will buy the remaining tickets. The dolphins had their local CBS affiliate buy reamining tickets for their 2000 WC game vs. Indy.
Oh I didn't know that, I thought if it was a national game it doesn't matter. Funny that the Fins couldn't sell out a playoff game though haha. Thanks for the info.
This is a major reason why Indy is considered a second rate town and will never get a MLB or Hockey team. If they can't fill a sparkling new stadium for a home football playoff game that's pretty sad. Good for Jets fans though!
No town should actually want a hockey team. Indianapolis will never get an MLB team because they already have a AAA team. Indianapolis is not New York, there aren't as many people, there aren't as many rich people, and this is their 10th home playoff game since 2000. Not to mention no one is expecting much out of this team come playoff time. When you have that many playoff games at home, and when you are in what a lot of people consider a "down year" it is not overly shocking that there are tickets available. With that being said, it is still a playoff game, in primetime, on a saturday night, and I would expect it to easily sell out.
Sounds like Atlanta Braves syndrome--they've had so many home playoff games it's no big deal to them in the first round. Compare that to us, our last one was vs Indy in 2002, we've had two total since 1986.
Except Atlanta is a terrible pro sports town. Indianapolis supports the 2 major franchises they have- the Pacers and Colts. Atlanta is a college town.
