Cardinals had 24 more hours to avoid blackout
With 1, 000 tickets remained to be sold by Thursday afternoon, the Arizona Cardinals should have been blacked out on local television as league rules require games to be sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff.
Fortunately the NFL decided to give the team 24 more hours as extension to deadline. I guess it will not be difficult for the team to sell out tickets within 24 hours as the game against the Carolina Panthers in Glendale is anyway worth watching.
Besides, the Cardinals have sold out all 37 games played at University of Phoenix Stadium, which opened in 2006. But for this season, partly because of economic depression, many fans sought to buy cheaper NFL jerseys and spent less on tickets, and the Cardinals have received 24-hour blackout deadline extension from the league for three games.
