Thanks, Raiders Fans…

Great news from Matt Maiocco’s Niners blog (great blog, by the way):

Good news for Bay Area professional football fans. KPIX, Channel 5, announced that the Raiders-Texans game is not a sell-out. Therefore, the game will be blacked out in the Bay Area. The station will carry the Patriots-Colts game in HDTV on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Can the networks apply some simple common sense to the television scheduling sometimes? Luckily those Raiders fans took matters into their own hands. Even the Raiders fans were actively telling each other not to buy tickets to the game on Saturday so that the Pats-Colts would be shown on the local networks.

Now if they could only do the same thing every single other week of the season…