Once again, a football game has been played where pictures circulated showing empty stadium seats and once again, an NFL team has released numbers contradictory to those images. The San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams combined for a hugely exciting game on Thursday, but it looked like a fairly sparse crowd was able to enjoy the action.
The 49ers tend to disagree. They released attendance figures for the evening and say that more than 60,000 people physically attended the game, according to figures from Pro Football Talk. The 49ers also claim that they distributed 97 percent of the 68,500 available tickets for the game.