QUAL-COMM KIDS GET SO MANY TICKETS? CHARGERS CAN'T SELL OUT

          San Diego officials are "dipping into the city treasury
     again" to buy unsold Chargers tickets to lift the TV
     blackout for the team's home games, according to Philip
     LaVelle of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE.  Those tickets are
     then being distributed to county public school children as
     part of the Chargers' Touchdown for Youth program.  The city
     has already spent $1.7M "or more to buy unsold tickets to
     two preseason home games" at an average ticket price of $42,
     and more tickets are being bought for Sunday's home opener
     against the Colts.  As of yesterday, county schools had
     received "about" 15,000 tickets to that game.  Season-to-
     date, the city has purchased more than 40,000 unsold
     tickets.  Meanwhile, Chargers officials released their
     current season-ticket sales numbers which indicated that the
     team has sold 46,000 season tickets, down from 51,000 last
     season.  Team execs attributed the drop to the team's "poor
     performance" last year (S.D. UNION-TRIBUNE, 9/23).