Orlando "guarantees" NFL game

[JaxAvondale]

JaxAvondale: The city could commit to FL/GA and ND/Navy (Or other teams) games on consecutive weekends more regularly.

The more I think about it, the more it occurs to me this is a very important point. Two games during the latter half of October or two games straddling October/November gives the local commission an opportunity to schedule some very interesting games to pair with Florida-Georgia.

When the amphitheater and flex field are completed, Florida-Georgia Week is really going to get amped up even further.

Amphitheater and flex field should help lure a lot of events to Jacksonville. 2 college regular season games and hosting the NFL draft should be their goal within the next 3-5 years.

[Tacachale]

Losing another Jags home game, without expanding the season, would be an awful loss. Adding  another college game won't replace a lost Jags game, even a major college game would be at most treading water. We can add those all we want anyway, they don't play on on the same days as the NFL. Fortunately, we're unlikely to lose another home game, unless they do expand the season. Maybe a pre-season game.

[JaxAvondale]

Losing another Jags home game, without expanding the season, would be an awful loss. Adding  another college game won't replace a lost Jags game, even a major college game would be at most treading water. We can add those all we want anyway, they don't play on on the same days as the NFL. Fortunately, we're unlikely to lose another home game, unless they do expand the season. Maybe a pre-season game.

The scenario that we were discussing is that the Jags would be the road team for one of the games in London. So, they wouldn't be losing another home game.

[Tacachale]

^ah, yes. Yeah, that would be cool.

[tufsu1]

Losing another Jags home game, without expanding the season, would be an awful loss. Adding  another college game won't replace a lost Jags game, even a major college game would be at most treading water. We can add those all we want anyway, they don't play on on the same days as the NFL. Fortunately, we're unlikely to lose another home game, unless they do expand the season. Maybe a pre-season game.

The scenario that we were discussing is that the Jags would be the road team for one of the games in London. So, they wouldn't be losing another home game.

Tell that to mtrain

[ProjectMaximus]

An Orlando game (although I do not expect it to happen unless it's just preseason) would be very different from London. It could still function as an actual home game, and season ticket holders could receive free shuttle (or the brightline) to the Citrus Bowl...

Again, wouldnt want or expect that, but it's certainly not as big of a deal as London.

[pierre]

The Jags won't lose another home game, even preseason. The only thing I could see is playing a preseason game in Orlando as the road team.

[mtraininjax]

you really are off-kilter these days.  The Jags aren't moving another home game UNLESS the regular season schedule is expanded to 18 games.  Note that the new Citrus Bowl is much better than the previous version, but hardly NFL caliber.  There simply aren't nearly enough club seats/suites.

What little you know, I think the wind feature in your avatar is sucking all the brains from between your ears.....

You don't know anything about what Lamping is planning, but if you look at see what he has done, every strategic move is all about revenue. Would you like a lesson in NFL revenue 101? Even if its a Fake Football game...

The revenue from game day is peanuts compared to the swag and season tickets they can sell by expanding their fan base in an area 2 short hours from Jax. It may be rocket science to you, but it is something that Weaver started and now Khan/Lamping are trying to build on, since there are "cue Lake" double the number of residents around Orlando as Jax and it ranks as the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Florida. Why wouldn't they explore the option of a home game in Orlando? Seats are nothing, they can have them added, even though the Orlando stadium holds 70,000 as it sits now.

Heck they can get you a sofa in the end zone so you don't have to climb stairs anymore.

[Tacachale]

you really are off-kilter these days.  The Jags aren't moving another home game UNLESS the regular season schedule is expanded to 18 games.  Note that the new Citrus Bowl is much better than the previous version, but hardly NFL caliber.  There simply aren't nearly enough club seats/suites.

What little you know, I think the wind feature in your avatar is sucking all the brains from between your ears.....

You don't know anything about what Lamping is planning, but if you look at see what he has done, every strategic move is all about revenue. Would you like a lesson in NFL revenue 101? Even if its a Fake Football game...

The revenue from game day is peanuts compared to the swag and season tickets they can sell by expanding their fan base in an area 2 short hours from Jax. It may be rocket science to you, but it is something that Weaver started and now Khan/Lamping are trying to build on, since there are "cue Lake" double the number of residents around Orlando as Jax and it ranks as the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Florida. Why wouldn't they explore the option of a home game in Orlando? Seats are nothing, they can have them added, even though the Orlando stadium holds 70,000 as it sits now.

Heck they can get you a sofa in the end zone so you don't have to climb stairs anymore.

I can't for the life of me understand why you want to come off like such a jerk. Why do you talk to people like this? It's obviously not heat of the moment, as you're responding to a comment from days ago.

It doesn't help that you're wrong. For one thing, over $3 billion of the NFL's $9.2 billion annual revenues are from stadiums. Additionally, stadium revenues are virtually all the teams get to keep for themselves. The other $6 billion - TV, national sponsorships, most merchandise - is shared, with each team getting a $187.7 million cut. So, teams have a huge incentive to get people into their stadium.

Going to the Citrus Bowl would mean paying to rent the stadium, not getting revenue from local sponsorships, and probably not even getting to keep merch revenue sold there. That's beyond the fact that it holds only 65k people and has few high-revenue-generating premium seats. Even if it sold out, which it probably wouldn't at NFL prices, it would generate less revenue than a game at EverBank.

The real goal, which I think you're getting at, would be to build the Jags' brand in Orlando and try to get Central Floridians to come up to EverBank on Sundays. It might work, but there are likely less risky and less costly ways to do that than losing one of 7 remaining revenue generating games a year to get people to come up for the other 6.

[JaxAvondale]

Another way to help build a following in central Florida would be to hold part of training camp in Orlando every year.

[mbwright]

I seriously doubt the Jags would cover your transportation and other costs associated with attending the game in Orlando, even if you were a season ticket holder.