MNF, Building Lights, and the National Spotlight

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Well, we're on the Yahoo splash screen:

ESPN confuses new Jacksonville with old Jacksonville, and … Charlotte?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/ESPN-confuses-new-Jacksonville-with-old-Jacksonv?urn=nfl-wp13393

This isn't about Jacksonville as much as it's about Yahoo Sports taking a not-so-subtle dig at ESPN.

A lot of different outlets think that ESPN should only be BIG 'E', Liitle 's'  -  Es

[simms3]

Well, we're on the Yahoo splash screen:

ESPN confuses new Jacksonville with old Jacksonville, and … Charlotte?

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/ESPN-confuses-new-Jacksonville-with-old-Jacksonv?urn=nfl-wp13393

Some of the better replies to this story:

Question for all Jaguars fans......did this stop the Chargers from handing your team their ASSES?

I also shaved my balls thinking that the aerial shot was real!!

Somebody watched the Jags on Monday night? That's a bigger story than ESPN not telling you their aerial footage of the stadium, not gameplay mind you, wasn't live. As stupid as this sounds, I watch the game to see the teams play, not to see a birds eye view of Jacksonville!!

If only the Charger team playing Monday was a past year's version too...

You people really need to get laid

People worry about this stuff,, but have no idea what their kids are doing. Home Of The Free and Taxed

picky, picky.

I thought Chris Chase wrote this for sure

They show Boston when the Patriots play and Gillette Stadium is in Foxboro which is 50 miles away from Boston. P.S. Jacksonville is a Dump!

if during the seattle game, you see a huge white dome that lookes like a huge orange juicer with a flag on top... you know that's outdated footage.

seems that it does not take much to make people snap these days, even the couchpotatos are on the edge (of there seat that is)

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Some of the better replies to this story:

Yours was the one about shaving balls wasn't it.   

[blizz01]

+1 - I just laughed out loud & got a look from our assistant.  (I couldn't tell her why)

[KenFSU]

People overreact to every little comment about the city by the media because Jacksonville has a city-wide inferiority complex. When a raw nerve gets touched, everyone goes spastic like the red-nosed man from Operation when the tweezers touch his metal. If people were genuinely confident in our city, they would shrug it off. Detroit gets it ten times worse from the media than Jacksonville does, but they're a damn proud city, and it rolls right off their back. Vegas got trashed following the NBA All-Star weekend two years ago far worse than Jax did following the Superbowl, and they aren't still bitter about it.

I sincerely believe that the inferiority complex is the primary thing holding this city back from reaching greatness.

And I also think that the city's own inferiority complex also has a deeply negative effect on the Jaguars as well. I'm convinced that a sizeable segment of our population does not think we deserve an NFL franchise, thinks the team will eventually end up relocating, and reject the team and even bashes them as a proactive way of breaking up with the franchise before the franchise breaks up with them.

It's really ugly and puts a tangible, deeply depressing black cloud over the franchise.

Ticket sales have almost inarguably become a bigger story than wins and losses here in Jacksonville.

And every bad home loss produces this really weird "the Jags are leaving the city" vibe.

It's a really odd, unique, uncomfortable, undeniable phenomenon that we need to find a way to deal with.

[duvaldude08]

I think the complex started when we got the team. So its more so the attention of the Jags cause the complex.  Before the team, Jacksonville was just business as usual. No worries, we just did our thing. Soon as we got the national spot light and started to get dogged out and singled out on a regular basis, (especially the past five years), yes the fan is basis is a tad bit sensitive and I can understand. But you are correct, its time for us to get over this. Bump what people have to say and get some pride. Thats why it seems I have my "head in the sand" when it comes to certain things pretaining to the city and the team. I erfuse to dwell on the negative thats going on.

PS and you are right about Detriot. However, Detriot is not singled out like Jacksonville is. Jacksonville is the red headed step child of the NFL. Have been since day one. You hear more negative stuff about Jax than you do any one city these days.

[JaxNative68]

^ blame it on the FBC and be done with it

[duvaldude08]

^ blame it on the FBC and be done with it

Darn Baptist! LOL

[downtownjag]

I think the complex started when we got the team. So its more so the attention of the Jags cause the complex.  Before the team, Jacksonville was just business as usual. No worries, we just did our thing. Soon as we got the national spot light and started to get dogged out and singled out on a regular basis, (especially the past five years), yes the fan is basis is a tad bit sensitive and I can understand. But you are correct, its time for us to get over this. Bump what people have to say and get some pride. Thats why it seems I have my "head in the sand" when it comes to certain things pretaining to the city and the team. I erfuse to dwell on the negative thats going on.

PS and you are right about Detriot. However, Detriot is not singled out like Jacksonville is. Jacksonville is the red headed step child of the NFL. Have been since day one. You hear more negative stuff about Jax than you do any one city these days.

But the national media is creating what it intends to bash - a wrecklessly loyal, diehard fanbase that doesn't care what anyone else thinks.  We haven't laid down and taken it, we've stuck it to the national media and become more passionate, due in part, to the antagonistic comments by the hopelessly lazy and uninformed national media.

[duvaldude08]

I think the complex started when we got the team. So its more so the attention of the Jags cause the complex.  Before the team, Jacksonville was just business as usual. No worries, we just did our thing. Soon as we got the national spot light and started to get dogged out and singled out on a regular basis, (especially the past five years), yes the fan is basis is a tad bit sensitive and I can understand. But you are correct, its time for us to get over this. Bump what people have to say and get some pride. Thats why it seems I have my "head in the sand" when it comes to certain things pretaining to the city and the team. I erfuse to dwell on the negative thats going on.

PS and you are right about Detriot. However, Detriot is not singled out like Jacksonville is. Jacksonville is the red headed step child of the NFL. Have been since day one. You hear more negative stuff about Jax than you do any one city these days.

But the national media is creating what it intends to bash - a wrecklessly loyal, diehard fanbase that doesn't care what anyone else thinks.  We haven't laid down and taken it, we've stuck it to the national media and become more passionate, due in part, to the antagonistic comments by the hopelessly lazy and uninformed national media.

+10

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Guys, it's not the passionate, die-hard fans that worry me.  It's the guy sitting in his theater room in Queen's Harbour that has the disposable income that doesn't feel like going to the games of a team who:

Tarps 1/3 of the stadium - Peter King
Isn't worth sending a crew to cover the game - ESPN
Will move to LA any moment now - Everyone who needs a storyline (low hanging fruit and deadlines)
Owned by a tax-cheating, American Hating Muslim - Small Minded Racists everywhere - local radio callers, bloggers, commenters on Jax.com
We'd be better with Garrard - he had surgery and would have been on IR anyhow


It's to the point where those of us who know the facts are just tired of it.  We're tired of the mis-information.  We're tired of the Tebow story.  We're tired of the constant abuse.  We're also tired of the mediocrity on the field, but sometimes you have to look past wins and losses.  Just looking at our IR roster makes me cringe, but the average watcher doesn't know that.  They expect to know a name and win every game by 17 points.  Most didn't know Pozluzney until he started tackling everything in sight. 

Gabbert spent 2 years in a spread offense and didn't have any time to prepare for the NFL, but the average fan expects him to look as polished as Ponder.  Really?  5th year senior in a pro-style college offense with one of the most dynamic recievers in the league, Percy Harvin.  Adrian Peterson.  Oh, BTW, what's the Vikes record?  The average fan doesn't care.  It's the What-Have-You-Done-For-Me-Lately League. 

I can argue this point day in / day out.  It won't matter.  I know what we have.  I realize the potential that's there and I'm willing to wait.  I also realize that it's going to take 2-3 winning seasons and a trip or two to the playoffs before our AVERAGE fan base starts buying tickets. 

I'll still be there.

Rome wasn't built in a day, either, but she's still standing, and that's the plan from our GM.   Brick by brick, the team will get built and the process can be long and arduous, probably not pretty, but once it's there, it should stay standing for quite some time only needing some yearly maintenance.  At least that's what I hope.

[JaxNative68]

I would like to see some quality bricks being purchased during the draft, not faux brick at the pice of real brick.

[KenFSU]

I would like to see some quality bricks being purchased during the draft, not faux brick at the pice of real brick.

Wait, are we talking about the Courthouse again?

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I would like to see some quality bricks being purchased during the draft, not faux brick at the pice of real brick.

Wait, are we talking about the Courthouse again?

Nah.  Rome, man, Rome.