Sports Fans Coalition submitted more than 4,000 letters from sports...

Sports Fans Coalition submitted more than 4,000 letters from sports fans opposing retaining the sports blackout rule. The fans wrote to the FCC saying local blackouts don’t encourage attendance “but rather deprive them of seeing the games at all because they are physically unable to go to the stadium,” the coalition said Tuesday in an ex parte filing (http://bit.ly/W7mPUH). “These blackout rules serve no purpose other than to punish fans for not attending the game,” the letters said. The letters were obtained through the fan advocacy organization, FanFreedom.org.