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Chargers Must Sell 4600 Tickets to Lift Blackout
The team will need to sell the tickets by Thursday at 1 p.m. They face the injury-plagued Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
The San Diego Chargers will need to sell 4,600 tickets by Thursday at 1 p.m. or the game against the Kansas City Chiefs will be blacked out on local television, it was announced Tuesday afternoon.
Three of the first four home games last year were unavailable to local television viewers because not enough tickets were sold by the deadline. The 2011 home opener, against the Minnesota Vikings, did make it on TV.
The NFL generally grants 24-hour grace periods if sales of general tickets are close to a sellout. Pricey club level tickets are not included in the formula for Qualcomm Stadium, which seats about 71,000 fans for football.
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Fans have a much higher bar to scale for the following week against the Miami Dolphins. The Chargers said around 9,700 tickets remain unsold for that contest.
City News Service contributed to this report.
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