McCaskill Gets the Rams on TV

I missed this on Sunday; savvy move on Claire's part

The St. Louis Rams' season opener against the Denver Broncos is a sellout, ensuring that it will be televised on KMOV-TV, Channel 4, in the St. Louis region, beginning at noon.

The Rams had about 500 tickets left unsold Thursday, but all those tickets were purchased a couple of hours before the deadline of noon Friday.

Missouri Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill purchased 100 of the remaining tickets, her office said Friday.

In turn, McCaskill gave 90 of the tickets to students at Clyde C. Miller Career Academy, a St. Louis high school. The remaining 10 went to the George Washington Carver House, which provides crisis intervention for youths and their families.

Under the NFL's blackout rule, teams normally have until 72 hours before kickoff to sell out games or they'll be blacked out locally.

She bought herself some free media and the goodwill of lots of Rams fans. While intuitively one doubts this kind of thing counts, given the margins in this race, just maybe it will.