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A look at the days when NFL fans couldn’t watch the home team on television — ever

"In the dark days of silly, anti-fan blackouts, New York Jets fans had to travel at least 75 miles outside the New York City market to watch their team beat the Oakland Raiders in the 1968 American Football League championship game," Richard Sandomir writes, adding that if the same restrictions were in effect now, fans in the Indianapolis market would not have been able to watch their Colts play the Jets in the AFC Championship Game on CBS. "The blackout rule enforced for years before and after 1968 by the A.F.L. and the N.F.L. prohibited viewers from watching their teams play at home for fear that giving away the games on television would hurt attendance," Sandomir writes.
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