The Vikings are in the playoffs. In fact, their last-second 20-19 victory against the Giants didn’t even matter Sunday, because the Bears lost. Have you heard the Bears lost? Because the Bears lost Sunday. To the Texans. In a game that if they would have won, they would have made the playoffs. Just letting every know if they hadn’t heard yet.

Now that the Vikings are in the playoffs, you would expect the fans to be pretty exited.  Maybe even, I don’t know, want to buy tickets to the game. But so far, that’s just not that case. Not all all.

The Vikings announced Monday that approximately 20,000 tickets remain for Sunday’s game against the Eagles at the Metrodome. That daunting number shouts out a very real possibility that the Vikings’ first home playoff game in eight years will be blacked out in the Twin Cities and many secondary markets.

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The surplus of tickets for Sunday’s game, scheduled to be shown on KMSP (Ch. 9), exists because only about 55 percent of the team’s 55,000 season-ticket holders elected to buy playoff tickets.

Now, the Vikings marketing dude is pointing to the fact that with the holidays, and fans waiting to see whether or not the Vikings actually made it in or not, sales are down to start off here. But this wasn’t like the Bears who were fighting for the playoffs, the Vikings had a much easier road to the postseason; they were expected to make it.

There’s still plenty of time till Sunday, so the jury is still out. But I don’t know, there’s another holiday coming up Thursday, I fear that might derail sales once again.

Via PFT.