To make sure the team benefits from a stadium full of enthusiastic fans. To protect home game attendance of the teams. To assure the entertainment value of a full stadium -- for people in the stands and for people watching TV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think they should quit forcing people to have to go to an actual game in order to watch their team play. Maybe base your attendance on how good your team is rather than how many people are in the stands. In other words if they don't make enough money, they cut the game off and say if you want to watch the game, then come and give us your hard earned money. How can you "enjoy" all the people in the stands (cause we all know that's what everyone pays attention to when watching sports games) while watching tv when you can't even see the game because it's blacked out? Greedy greedy. That's all they are. Quit screwing the fans.