Sports Agenda for Friday (9/14/12)
Big Story:
It's another weekend of big college football games and the Dolphins have their home opener and no one wants to go, I'll explain in the agenda.
Quote of the Day:
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." – Abraham Lincoln (too bad the modern business world doesn't agree)
College Football:
Not a lot of time today, so lets get right to the picks!
Ohio State over Cal
TCU over Kansas
FSU over Wake Forest
Va. Tech over Pittsburgh
Louisiana-Monroe over Auburn
Alabama over Arkansas
Northwestern over Boston College
Penn State over Navy
Louisville over North Carolina
Texas A&M over SMU
Va. over Georgia Tech
UCF over FIU
Florida over Tennessee
Mizzou over Arizona State
Georgia over FAU
Michigan State over Notre Dame
UCLA over Houston
Bethune Cookman loses a close one to Miami
Your lead pipe lock of the week:
Texas over Ole Miss
Miami Dolphins: (vs. Oakland, Sunday)
We know the Miami Dolphins are bad, really bad.
We also know that South Florida sports fans are notoriously some of the most fair-weather fans in the country.
That's not a good combination when you're trying to sell tickets.
Here's how bad it has gotten for the Fins.
Earlier in the offseason, the NFL allowed the Dolphins, and any other team that wanted to, to consider a sell-out when they've sold 85 percent of the premium tickets for the game.
This alleviated having to sell thousands of tickets in order to ensure the game would be on local television.
Otherwise, the game would be blacked out per NFL rules.
Even with the lower limit, the Dolphins still couldn't reach that plateau for home opener against the Oakland Raiders.
So, Dolphins owner Stephen Ross and other sponsors and broadcasters have to buy up the remaining tickets for, if memory serves me correctly, 34 cents on the dollar. If they buy up the remaining tickets, then the game can be shown locally.
If a team chooses not to because there are simply too many, then the game is blacked out.
Luckily for Dolphins fans, Ross and other Dolphins partners contributed enough to buy up the remaining tickets.
Which means the game will be shown locally.
But how far have the Fins fallen? They can't sell out the home opener, even only having to sell 85 percent of the tickets.
That's pretty bad…no, that's really, really bad.
Again, where do you put the blame?
Easy, on the guy who built the team that is so bad on the field.
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