The Cleveland Browns have announced that Monday night’s game against the Ravens has been sold out, and thus will be televised locally.
Area residents are trying to figure out whether that’s good news or bad news.
In a release, the Browns attributed the sellout to the combined efforts of the team, ESPN, Bud Light, and FOX affiliate WJW-TV.
In other words, those entities purchased the unsold tickets.
The unusual move here is that the sellout was announced without a 24-hour extension, and a full 24 hours before the Friday night deadline. Teams typically embrace an extension in the hopes that folks who are on the fence will decide to go ahead and buy tickets that otherwise will be bought by sponsors, the team, and/or broadcast partners.
