Rams Come Through, and Raiders Don’t
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The gods who look after football TV fans came through in fine style, defeating the miserable skinflint, Al Davis. Davis isn’t satisfied with 88,936 people attending the game; he wants his pound of money-flesh of 92,000.
ED MARTIN
Los Angeles
According to Val Pinchbeck, NFL director of broadcasting, in order to lift the TV blackout of a game not sold out 72 hours in advance, both of the teams involved, plus the league, must agree to do so. To have assured a sellout the Raiders would have had to buy about 19,000 tickets, the number that were unsold at deadline time.
