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[thelakelander]

Baltimore hates Jax?

[I-10east]

^^Even after the Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2000, they still talk about how Jax shouldn't have gotten the expansion team instead of them, and they had to take the Cleveland Browns from Cleveland. It's a constant on sites like PFT. I can think of countless examples. It's not like we are on their minds constantly, BUT if someone was to mention Jax to a Baltimoron, I wouldn't expect positive things to be said.

[tufsu1]

Also, Jacksonville is one of the cities that courted the Colts back in the day....but like Baltimore, Jax. got screwed by Bob Irsay.


That said, Baltimoreans (the correct spelling) don't even hate on Indy anymore.....we just feel sorry for them

[Wacca Pilatka]

^^Even after the Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2000, they still talk about how Jax shouldn't have gotten the expansion team instead of them, and they had to take the Cleveland Browns from Cleveland. It's a constant on sites like PFT. I can think of countless examples. It's not like we are on their minds constantly, BUT if someone was to mention Jax to a Baltimoron, I wouldn't expect positive things to be said.

I'm from Maryland and can vouch for what I-10 is saying.  Even if I weren't, the frequent bitter and derogatory references on message boards et al. from Baltimore fans about Jacksonville and how it shouldn't have gotten the expansion team is sufficient evidence.

"The Band That Wouldn't Die" ESPN documentary presents further evidence of it.  And at the Jaguars-Ravens Monday night game in 2011, a number of Ravens fans there wouldn't shut up about it.

[I-10east]

No offense Tufsu, I'll be nice, Baltimoreans.  Although there are still some Ravens fans (maybe that's what I should have said, instead of lumping all of B-More) who still kinda have an ax to grind, mainly from having to take the Browns from Cleveland.

[fsquid]

Glad Kahn shipped that Niners game to London, who would want to watch them here in Jacksonville?

[I-10east]

I even think that Byron Pitts's (B-more guy) 60 minutes interview with Shad Khan was an attempt to make the city look bad. Okay, quotes that Pitts said "News did not go over with some so well that a Pakistani-born Muslim brought the Jags in this conservative corner of N.E. Florida". Okay, he kinda made us sound like a dry county in Tennessee somewhere as we do have plenty of Democrats here also, and even a Black democrat as the mayor. Then he quoted this hate from Floridaslate.com, a site the covers ALL OF FLORIDA NOT JUST JAX; the hateful quotes said "Terrorist from Pakistan" "Sand monkey" and "If you buy Jags season tickets do you have the buy a prayer rug". That could've been someone from Martin County, De Soto County, who knows? Then Pitts went to egg on Khan into saying that "It's wasn't Jax's finest moment" junk. Nobody in Jax of significance ever said anything publicly bad about Khan. 

[I-10east]

Glad Kahn shipped that Niners game to London, who would want to watch them here in Jacksonville?

I know right? He would ship out a game with us playing a marquee team.

[duvaldude08]

^^Even after the Ravens won the Super Bowl in 2000, they still talk about how Jax shouldn't have gotten the expansion team instead of them, and they had to take the Cleveland Browns from Cleveland. It's a constant on sites like PFT. I can think of countless examples. It's not like we are on their minds constantly, BUT if someone was to mention Jax to a Baltimoron, I wouldn't expect positive things to be said.

I'm from Maryland and can vouch for what I-10 is saying.  Even if I weren't, the frequent bitter and derogatory references on message boards et al. from Baltimore fans about Jacksonville and how it shouldn't have gotten the expansion team is sufficient evidence.

"The Band That Wouldn't Die" ESPN documentary presents further evidence of it.  And at the Jaguars-Ravens Monday night game in 2011, a number of Ravens fans there wouldn't shut up about it.

You know I had friends asking me " Why do you hate the ravens?" I told him why and he said "Just because they dont like Jax?" I told him that I am a Jacksonville native and if you trashing anything that has to do with my city, I have a problem with that and I take is personally. Especially when its something that is almost 20 years old. When we played the ravens in 2011, I went on various sites and they referred to us as " Their expansion garbage rivals" etc etc. People were commenting saying, "They should have never had a team anyways." Thats why it kills me when teams like the Ravens claim nobody respects them, or even praise them for hanlding "adversity" to reach the super bowl. You dont know disrespect and adversity unless you are Jaguar fan. Weve been dealing with that from day one. For a team and a city thats has always minded their business, has been getting trashed and drugged through the mud since inception. But as they say "god dont like ugly". I have a strong feeling this franchise is getting ready to take off and there is going to alot of CROW to be eaten by everyone. We struggled at times, weve made some mistakes, but what franchise hasnt? anyways, Im done 

[tufsu1]

believe me....Baltimore people are quite happy with the team they ended up getting....Super Bowl champs 5 years after moving and rebooting the franchise....I really don't think there is any resentment over not getting an expansion team....in the end they waited 1 extra year for a team....NBD

[duvaldude08]

This is...odd

Ross says AEG bid doesn’t reflect intent to move Dolphins

Posted by Mike Florio on January 21, 2013, 8:17 PM EST

AP
With Dolphins owner Stephen Ross wanting to transform his team into the Lakers of the NFL, Dolphins fans now have reason to fret about Ross moving his team to the Lakers’ neighborhood.

According to Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Ross has made a bid on AEG, the company intent on building a new pro football stadium in Los Angeles.  The development is creating concern that, if Ross isn’t able to persuade the local authorities in South Florida to help finance improvements to Sun Life Stadium, Ross could move the Dolphins to L.A.

“I have no interest at all in moving the Dolphins,” Ross told Hyde in an email, explaining that the effort to buy AEG is “strictly advancing our real estate, sports, entertainment and technology business.”

Still, there’s something odd about an owner of one NFL team trying to buy a company that wants to build a stadium that relies on an NFL team moving to L.A. in order to play there.  But Ross, like Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, would be abandoning a stadium Ross currently owns.

[Tacachale]

^Disgusting.

[BridgeTroll]

Deadspin analysis of Facebook "likes" of NFL teams... Jags dominate NE Florida
http://deadspin.com/5979970/facebook-data-provides-the-most-accurate-nfl-fandom-map-ever-created

[copperfiend]

Pretty interesting map. The Jaguars seem to be in a similar position as the Bucs, Texans, Chargers, Browns, Bills and Jets. And it reaffirms that the Cowboys and Steelers are the two most popular teams and it isn't even close.

[Tacachale]

Now that is a cool map. You have to wonder how accurate it really is, though, considering how many different loyalties exist in the same cities (it's obvious the Jets' popularity extends beyond Nassau County, Long Island.) At any rate I find it unacceptable that there are Patriots and Steelers enclaves in Florida. Time for Lamping to ramp up the promotions buses in Flagler and Volusia.