The Giants game may have sold out yesterday, but the stadium wasn’t full. Premium and club seats aren’t figured in to the NFL’s blackout rules.

Here’s how NY Daily News columnist Gary Myers described the New Meadowlands:

It wasn’t visible on television like the empty seats behind the plate at Yankee Stadium. Forget about television. Anybody at the stadium Sunday saw the block of gray seats that stood out like a sore PSL.

One mezzanine section right at the 50-yard line – $12,500 PSL, $500 game ticket – and one section at around the 5-yard line – $7,500 PSL, $400 game ticket – had just a handful of fans in them. There was an entire row in a section in the corner of the end zone on the mezzanine level that was empty.

Directly behind the Giants bench, one section of the Coaches Club – $20,000 PSL, $700 game ticket – looked like it was pretty well sold out, but the sections next to it had some good seats still available. And it’s not like the seats were empty because the fans escaped the rain and remained in the cozy club lounges.

The Giants announced the paid attendance at 77,245. That means about 5,2000 tickets were unsold: club seat PSLs, suite tickets and seats that were once designated to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act that are now available as regular seats.

Read the full article here.

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