Several hundred Club seats, some of the best locations in the stadium, are still available as well as a limited number of private suites. The Chargers’ ticket office at Gate C at Qualcomm Stadium is open Friday from 8-3 pm and Saturday from 10-4 pm. Tickets also can be purchased online at www.Chargers.com or by calling 800-745-3000.

Several milestones could be set during Sunday night’s game. Tight end Antonio Gates needs just five catches to become the Chargers’ all-time leader in receptions with 587, surpassing Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver and Chargers receivers coach Charlie Joiner. In addition, Philip Rivers needs just 255 yards passing for his fourth consecutive 4,000-yard season, joining Peyton Manning and Drew Brees as the only other quarterbacks in history with such a streak. And Ryan Mathews needs 57 yards rushing to reach 1,000 yards in his second NFL season.

At halftime of Sunday’s game, the Chargers will announce their Community Quarterback of the Year winner and present him or her with a $5,000 check for their program. The Community Quarterback program recognizes outstanding volunteers who exemplify leadership, dedication and a commitment to improving the youth football and cheer experience for youth in their community. The team also will honor all of the High School Coach of the Week winners as well as the Coach of the Year.

In addition, the Toyota End Zone Challenge will take place at halftime. It’s the culmination of an eight-week on-line promotion from which four contestants were chosen randomly to throw footballs from the 10-yard line into the bed of a 2012 Toyota Tacoma parked in the end zone. Each contestant will have 20 seconds to throw as many Nerf footballs as they can. The winner receives a two-year lease on the Tacoma.
The team will don their vibrant Charger “Power” (Powder) blue alternate uniforms for the second time this season.

Fans are reminded to be careful when purchasing tickets from secondary and unofficial ticket sources. Counterfeit tickets often look so real that fans don’t find the ticket has been duplicated or is counterfeit until they try to enter the stadium. Fans still looking for tickets to the game are advised to visit www.Chargers.com or NFL Ticket Exchange by Ticketmaster (www.Chargers.com/TicketExchange). NFL Ticket Exchange is the official ticket marketplace of the NFL and San Diego Chargers and all tickets listed are authentic and guaranteed.

Approximately 2,000 tickets need to be sold by 5:30 pm PT Thursday, Dec. 15 to lift the local television blackout of Sunday night’s game between the Chargers and the Baltimore Ravens at available.

Tickets may be purchased by logging onto www.CHARGERS.com, calling 1-800-745-3000 or visiting the Chargers Ticket Office located at Gate C at Qualcomm Stadium. The Chargers’ ticket office is open weekdays 8-5 pm and Saturday 10-4 pm.

If the blackout is lifted, the game will be seen in San Diego on KNSD-TV, Channel 7, and in Los Angeles and Orange County on KNBC-TV, Channel 4. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworthwill call the game from the booth and Michele Tafoya will report from the sidelines.

Several milestones could be set during Sunday night’s game. Tight end Antonio Gates needs just five catches to become the Chargers’ all-time leader in receptions with 587, surpassing Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver and Chargers receivers coach Charlie Joiner. In addition, Philip Rivers needs just 255 yards passing for his fourth consecutive 4,000-yard season, joiningPeyton Manning and Drew Brees as the only other quarterbacks in history with such a streak. And Ryan Mathews needs 57 yards rushing to reach 1,000 yards in his second NFL season.

At halftime of Sunday’s game, the Chargers will announce their Community Quarterback of the Year winner and present him or her with a $5,000 check for their program. The Community Quarterback program recognizes outstanding volunteers who exemplify leadership, dedication and a commitment to improving the youth football and cheer experience for youth in their community. The team also will honor all of the High School Coach of the Week winners as well as the Coach of the Year.

In addition, the Toyota End Zone Challenge will take place at halftime. It’s the culmination of an eight-week on-line promotion from which four contestants were chosen randomly to throw footballs from the 10-yard line into the bed of a 2012 Toyota Tacoma parked in the end zone. Each contestant will have 20 seconds to throw as many Nerf footballs as they can. The winner receives a two-year lease on the Tacoma.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS vs. BALTIMORE RAVENS
Qualcomm Stadium (70,000) – San Diego, California
Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

• Philip Rivers passed for a career-high 436 yards today, tying Dan Fouts, for the fourth-most prolific passing day in team history…Fouts happened to be in the broadcast booth at Qualcomm Stadium this afternoon, working as an analyst on CBS.
• Included in Rivers’ day was a career-long 81-yard touchdown pass to Darren Sproles in the first quarter. The play tied for the ninth-longest pass play in team history.
• Sproles finished the day with 278 all-purpose yards – 26 rushing, 124 receiving and 128 on kickoff returns. It was the ninth-best all-purpose day in team history. For Sproles, it also marked his second-consecutive 200-yard game as he accounted for 264 yards – 23 rush, 43 receiving, 10 punt return and 170 kickoff return – in Monday’s season-opener in Oakland.
• Sproles’ 124 yards receiving were a career-high, as well as his first-ever 100-yard receiving game.
• Vincent Jackson had the second-best receiving day of his career today with 141 yards, seven yards shy of his career-high of 148 against Oakland last Dec. 4, 2008.
• It was Sproles’ ninth-career 200-yard game.
• The Chargers reported only two injuries from today’s game, linebackers Shawne Merriman and Shaun Philips both suffered groin injuries.

Local blackout lifted;
Southern California to see Chargers-Ravens

Enough tickets have been sold to lift the local television blackout and allow Southern California to see the CBS Sports telecast of the Chargers-Ravens game on Sunday, Sept. 20 at Qualcomm Stadium.  Kickoff is 1:15 p.m. PT.  The game will be televised in San Diego on KFMB-TV, Channel 8 and in Los Angeles on KCBS-TV, Channel 2.  Dick Enberg and Dan Fouts will call the play-by-play action.

A limited number of tickets, including Club Level tickets, are still available at the Chargers’ ticket office at Gate C at Qualcomm Stadium, at www.Chargers.com and through TicketMaster at 800-745-3000.

In addition, there are approximately 4,000 tickets still available to the Chargers-Dolphins game on Sept. 27. 

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