The Sunday before Thanksgiving there was much speculation whether the Detroit Lions would be blacked out locally in Detroit for the nationally televised Holiday game. This game has been under scrutiny for the last couple years because, let’s face it, the Lions suck.

However, they have their biggest market here in Detroit, and blacking out the game in the local market where we can’t get enough abuse watching and being disappointed by the Lions is a foolish move by the NFL. Understandably they want to sell tickets to tha actual game. But the Lions have no draw in a rough economy in the worst hit community in the nation.

Ford built the smaller Ford Field because they couldn’t consistently sell out the massive Silverdome. As the team stands now they couldn’t sell out a high school bleacher field…

Meanwhile our struggling local television stations are relegated to showing reruns of M*A*SH during the game slot and losing out on premium ad dollars. The NFL should show a little sympathy and allow us not only to see the lowly Lions lose another game locally, but also to allow the local stations to reap a little advertising benefit.