Sorry, Bills and Bucs fans. The NFL continues to believe that the best way it can win your loyalty is by blacking you out from watching the game. And unfortunately, the FCC upholds this policy with an unnecessary rule of its own. (Sports Fans Coalition and other public interest groups have asked the FCC to end this rule, and the agency is currently considering the request.)

This is the fifth and final blackout of the season for the Tampa Bay Bucs. Last year, the team was the only one in the NFL to have all eight of its home games blacked out. This means that there have been 13 blackouts in Tampa in just two seasons (and one of those games was in London, so it couldn’t be blacked out). Clearly, the blackout policy ISN’T WORKING. Instead, it’s just punishing poor fans and taxpayers who have paid for the stadium, and likely exacerbating the situation.

As for Buffalo, it’s the first game to be blacked out this season, and likely not the last. Meanwhile, the team is asking the public to kick in $100 million in public financing for improvements to the stadium. Yet, ownership can’t even kick in a few hundred thousand dollars for reduced-priced tickets to allow local fans to see the game. Such is life in the glorified real estate scam known as professional sports.

That’s not all sports fans. Unless Jacksonville sells 6,000+ tickets for its Monday night game against the Chargers, the Jaguars game also will be blacked out locally.

Didn’t the NFL say it was going to work to repair the damage it had done by locking out its fans? Here was Goodell after the lockout ended: “I think we have some work to do, though, to make sure they understand that we are sorry for the frustration we put them through over the last six months. Our commitment is to bring them better football going forward.”

Better football going forward…except in Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Buffalo, San Diego, Jacksonville, Oakland…

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