Jaguars to partially abandon that hellhole Jacksonville

Say what you will about Jacksonville, but it's a damn sight nicer than Jacksoffville.

 

I believe the Cards-49ers games in Mexico City were Cards home games when they still played at Sun Devil Stadium. Attendance hasn't been a major problem for the Cards since they moved into a building that didn't force fans to spend half the game sitting in direct sunlight on metal bleachers in 115-degree heat.

 

If I'm not mistaken... The Chargers and Vikings are both getting new stadiums. The Niners, while never a threat to leave, are getting one as well.

I agree that playing the LA card has gotten more than one team a new stadium. Assuming San Diego and Minnesota are staying, which teams would even be candidates to move to LA? Rams? Raiders? Jags? There really aren't that many options.

 

Sun Devil Stadium was a shithole...

 

Those bullets have just about been spent, though. The LA threat has been used at least a half-dozen times around the country, but now that the Vikings' deal is done, it's really down to four teams: St. Louis, Jacksonville, San Diego and Oakland. The two in California are going to have a bitch of a time going that route to get public funding.

My money is still on the Rams moving back.

 

You'd be wrong. The local TV ratings in the Jacksonville area are much higher for the NFL than any college game -- and not just for Jaguars games.

 

Not sure what the Kevin Bacon reference is supposed to be about. I can assure you there are not "swaths" of empty seats, unless it was the last five minutes of one of Del Rio's stinker games. Facts are facts: The NFL attendance figures show the Jaguars consistently ahead of the Bucs, Dolphins, Rams, Cincinnati and Arizona. I could count the Bears, but they only offer 61,000 seats and have a waiting list.
The Jaguars may be close to last in terms of your interest. Don't speak for everyone else.

 

You conveniently leave out that the team and sponsors buy tickets at 35 cents on the dollar to avoid blackouts.

 

Yet, that great city L.A. lost two NFL franchises IN THE SAME YEAR! in 1993.

 

And every NFL team has the ability to do that. Jacksonville is not playing by different rules.

 

No, but then their attendance figures are really just bullshit.

 

Just one of Bacon's finest cinematic moments: