Caution: LA is coming to steal your NFL team in 2011

[kells904]

FYI- Just a little something for giggles. Tampa is having a temper tandrum because their games are being blacked out. For thier home opener they drew a crowd of a little over 30,000. Which is sad. We had a crowd of 43,000 in mist of a storm. Im curious to see if the national media is going to jump all over tampa like they did us. Tampa local media is, but I wonder if the national media will.

I highly, highly doubt it.  I've been out of the loop since I've been overseas, but is that Brett Favre crap still going on?  If it is, that will get all the airtime.  That and ESPN's "Tebow Watch".  I've lost all respect for them.  This is only the second story I've ever read that identified teams other than ours that had ticket sales issues.  I also had a two-second conversation the other day with a Californian about the Jags.  "Oh, they don't even have any fans," he said.  Next subject.

[duvaldude08]

FYI- Just a little something for giggles. Tampa is having a temper tandrum because their games are being blacked out. For thier home opener they drew a crowd of a little over 30,000. Which is sad. We had a crowd of 43,000 in mist of a storm. Im curious to see if the national media is going to jump all over tampa like they did us. Tampa local media is, but I wonder if the national media will.

I highly, highly doubt it.  I've been out of the loop since I've been overseas, but is that Brett Favre crap still going on?  If it is, that will get all the airtime.  That and ESPN's "Tebow Watch".  I've lost all respect for them.  This is only the second story I've ever read that identified teams other than ours that had ticket sales issues.  I also had a two-second conversation the other day with a Californian about the Jags.  "Oh, they don't even have any fans," he said.  Next subject.

This is truly going to be a trip. If we meet our goals of no black outs for the entire season, and other teams have a string of black outs, that will make the national media look like ass for even bothering us last year.

[duvaldude08]

Im happy for the win tonight! go jags! There were so many times we could have loss. LOL

[Coolyfett]

FYI- Just a little something for giggles. Tampa is having a temper tandrum because their games are being blacked out. For thier home opener they drew a crowd of a little over 30,000. Which is sad. We had a crowd of 43,000 in mist of a storm. Im curious to see if the national media is going to jump all over tampa like they did us. Tampa local media is, but I wonder if the national media will.

I highly, highly doubt it.  I've been out of the loop since I've been overseas, but is that Brett Favre crap still going on?  If it is, that will get all the airtime.  That and ESPN's "Tebow Watch".  I've lost all respect for them.  This is only the second story I've ever read that identified teams other than ours that had ticket sales issues.  I also had a two-second conversation the other day with a Californian about the Jags.  "Oh, they don't even have any fans," he said.  Next subject.

This is truly going to be a trip. If we meet our goals of no black outs for the entire season, and other teams have a string of black outs, that will make the national media look like ass for even bothering us last year.

People only talk about what they see & hear, if the media dont talk it, doesnt exist

[kells904]

People only talk about what they see & hear, if the media dont talk it, doesnt exist

Colleen Dominguez, Sage Steele, Rachel Nichols & Suzy Kolber...4 reasons to watch ESPN.  Without them, they've got nothing. 

Oh, and "Trickshot Magic" Billiards...5 reasons to watch ESPN.

[CS Foltz]

Tampa Bay has issue's huh? But for some strange reason........they were just fine after winning the Super Bow! Am I the only person that see's a correlation between winning and filling the stadiums? They suffer the same issue that Jacksonville does............win and they will come! Lose and lots of luck because people will not pay to see a loser.......plain and simple! Business 101....from what I remember of it!

[coredumped]

Tampa Bay has issue's huh? But for some strange reason........they were just fine after winning the Super Bow! Am I the only person that see's a correlation between winning and filling the stadiums? They suffer the same issue that Jacksonville does............win and they will come! Lose and lots of luck because people will not pay to see a loser.......plain and simple! Business 101....from what I remember of it!

Well, green bay hasn't been to the superbowl since 1998 and someone (literally) has to die in order to get season tickets there.
Fair-weather fans come and go, building a team with die-hard fans takes a long time. We're still a young team. If we can hang in there we'll have a good strong following of die hards.

[CS Foltz]

coredumped..........you have a point! Green Bay dates back to the start and has the fan base to boot! But they also have a tradition of winning to match that time frame! The Jag's have not been around that long and have lots of work to do............but they have to win and establish a winning tradition! This is where we are lacking and we need to win more than we lose.........a record like last year 8 & 6 just won't cut it! We backed into the payoffs and it took help from other teams losing and winning in order for the Jag's to make it into the first round!

[duvaldude08]

coredumped..........you have a point! Green Bay dates back to the start and has the fan base to boot! But they also have a tradition of winning to match that time frame! The Jag's have not been around that long and have lots of work to do............but they have to win and establish a winning tradition! This is where we are lacking and we need to win more than we lose.........a record like last year 8 & 6 just won't cut it! We backed into the payoffs and it took help from other teams losing and winning in order for the Jag's to make it into the first round!

I know they also played all their Games in Milwaukee for a LONGGGGGG time in their early years and that helped build their fan base. Thats why I was shocked however everyone kinda dissed us for the idea of playing out of market games in Orlando. Other small markets, including buffalo and Green bay, has done it. Why cant we?

[jandar]

coredumped..........you have a point! Green Bay dates back to the start and has the fan base to boot! But they also have a tradition of winning to match that time frame! The Jag's have not been around that long and have lots of work to do............but they have to win and establish a winning tradition! This is where we are lacking and we need to win more than we lose.........a record like last year 8 & 6 just won't cut it! We backed into the payoffs and it took help from other teams losing and winning in order for the Jag's to make it into the first round!

I know they also played all their Games in Milwaukee for a LONGGGGGG time in their early years and that helped build their fan base. Thats why I was shocked however everyone kinda dissed us for the idea of playing out of market games in Orlando. Other small markets, including buffalo and Green bay, has done it. Why cant we?

The contract between Jacksonville and the Jaguars that runs through 2030 and is a huge hurdle for any prospective owner to overcome and move the team is the reason all home games are played in Jacksonville.

The contract basically states that every home game for the Jaguars has to be played here at the stadium. This excludes us from being designated as the "home" team for London games, as well as any "home" games played in Orlando.
The Citrus Bowl also has too few Luxury Boxes and Club Seating to allow an NFL team to play there.

[copperfiend]

I know they also played all their Games in Milwaukee for a LONGGGGGG time in their early years and that helped build their fan base. Thats why I was shocked however everyone kinda dissed us for the idea of playing out of market games in Orlando. Other small markets, including buffalo and Green bay, has done it. Why cant we?

One reason is the Citrus Bowl is a dump, so you couldn't play there anyway.

[BridgeTroll]

I know they also played all their Games in Milwaukee for a LONGGGGGG time in their early years and that helped build their fan base.

They never played all their home games in Milwaukee...

The first Milwaukee game was played on December 3, 1922, against the Racine Legion. The 1939 Championship between the Packers and the New York Giants was played at State Fair Park. The Packers won, 27-0.  The Packers played their final game at County Stadium on December 18, 1994, against the Atlanta Falcons.

The Packers maintain two separate season ticket plans, reflecting their time spent in Milwaukee: Gold package holders, made up largely of former Milwaukee season ticket holders, have a three-game package consisting of the annual Midwest Shrine preseason contest plus the second and fifth regular-season home games each year; Green package holders (made up of original Green Bay ticket holders) attend the annual Bishop's Charities preseason game and the remaining six regular-season contests.

[Shwaz]

  I'm might have a man crush on Dan Hicken after listening to this clip of him gutting a SI writer aka the national media!
http://www.stationcaster.com/player_skinned.php?s=61&c=367&f=57154

[copperfiend]

Unfortunately, the article is already out there in print. People are going to read it and assume it is true.

[Shwaz]

Unfortunately, the article is already out there in print. People are going to read it and assume it is true.

It was already the general consensus from the 1 million other articles pushing the same angle already out there... at least this time there was a rebuttal.