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...home games will be broadcast in the hard-hit region (by comparison, only nine of the NFL's 256 regular-season games last year were blacked out). "My worry is that if the NFL doesn't look at changing the rule, we're losing a fan base," says Richard Clark, president of the Jacksonville City Council. "I would like to think they would really, really look at those communities which are hardest hit and have an honest discussion about it, as opposed to saying this is the way we've always done things." (See the top 10 things to watch...
...Clark and other football fans shouldn't hold their breath. "No consideration is being given to changing the blackout policy," says NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "It has served us well for decades, and we think it would be a mistake to alter it." And as much as some local officials may be griping about it, teams aren't necessarily helping. Some teams that are facing the prospect of blackouts haven't even lowered their ticket prices to entice fans. In Jacksonville, for example, the average general-admission ticket costs $57.34, a 3.7% increase from 2008, according to Team Marketing Report...
What characteristics make chimpanzees seem most like human beings? Chip Clark, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD...
...nice thing is that Andre has taken [Rogers] under his wing,” Clark says. “No matter how talented you are coming in, at every level you move to there’s still a lot of things to learn...Andre realizes how important Brian is to the team and even for that matter to his own success...
After the policy came under fire for its perceived restriction on freedom of speech, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts contacted school officials to discuss the policy. Long an advocate of the freedom of expression on university campuses, the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Clark University in Worcester last spring, urging university officials to reconsider a decision to cancel a talk by controversial political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein...