Colts short of sellout

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Colts are again racing against the clock to sell tickets.\nThe team has until noon Thursday to avoid its fourth local television blackout in five games at the RCA Dome. Team officials said Wednesday that 6,200 tickets remained.\nRay Compton, senior vice president of sales and marketing, said that the Colts received many complaints about last Sunday's game against Tennessee being blacked out on TV after the game was sold out after the deadline.\nThe team is holding a marathon sales effort, running 17 hours from 5 p.m. Wednesday until the noon deadline -- or until all the tickets are sold.\nThe Colts have sold out 34 consecutive regular season home games, dating to Dec. 27, 1998, when they completed their second straight 3-13 season.\n"Quite honestly, we have a big hill to climb and perhaps it is very unlikely that we will sell out the game before the blackout deadline," Compton said. "We will be armed and ready to sell our fans tickets"