NO EXCUSES, St. Louis

The Rams' home sellout streak made it to 95, I believe, before
ending with a non-sellout at last year's final home game against
the Redskins. So we head into this season wondering if the schedule's
going to be filled with TV blackouts. In fact, the schedule's seemingly
engineered to help the Rams sell out games. The last two games, which
often are the hardest ones to sell out, are against the two teams on
the schedule whose fans "travel best", Green Bay and Pittsburgh. Those
seem guaranteed sellouts because of likely large road fan contingents.
The scheduling process is a great mystery, but it's plausible the Rams
asked for those games late because they're worried about failing to get
sellouts, and the league did them a favor.

Well, I'm here to say St. Louis has absolutely no excuse not to sell
out the whole home schedule. Look at Buffalo. They went 7-9 last
year, drafting one pick ahead of the Rams in the first round. They
had the #30 offense last year. This offseason, they've lost Willis
McGahee, Nate Clements, London Fletcher, Takeo Spikes, Darwin
Walker, not to mention Matt Bowen :P. All this while raising ticket
prices an average of 12.5%. And at last word, they still have Anthony
Hargrove on their roster. Yet...

The Bills have already sold out their first five home games.

The Rams have every promise of an exciting offense, they more than
adequately replaced their most significant player lost (Drew Bennett for
Kevin Curtis), they have league elites at WR, RB, and QB, two of whom
they have locked up long-term, they play indoors, and a large number
of this year's seats are cheaper than they were last year (except mine,
of course).

There is no excuse whatsoever for St. Louis not to sell out every game
this year, so step up, people. At least sell out the Big Dead game; I have
to be able to record it because I'm out of town that week.