Quote:Which is still right between the defending NFC champs and the bills as far as drawing interest in London and not our best home game last season.
You're so funny. The Cowboys are the most popular team in the NFL and one of the most popular franchises in all of sports. IT doesn't matter if the 49rs won the Super Bowl, they aren't as popular as Dallas. Neither are the Squealers.
That would be a premium game in Jacksonville anyway since most of those people would travel from their smelly city to be here. I say we send a crap game over there and see how loyal they really are. I say we send the Bills game there.
Quote:You're so funny. The Cowboys are the most popular team in the NFL and one of the most popular franchises in all of sports. IT doesn't matter if the 49rs won the Super Bowl, they aren't as popular as Dallas. Neither are the Squealers.
We aren't talking about how popular a team may be elsewhere. We are talking about here in Jacksonville and Dallas was never considered the best home game last year. Wasn't considered that when the schedule was made, and wasn't considered that when the game was played. In fact, the first time it was ever referred to as the "best home game" was in the opening to this very thread.
Odds are Dallas will never be considered the best home game here in town, regardless of how popular the brand, unless you are a cowboys fan. There will almost always be a team on the schedule that either presents a bigger rivalry or a more meaningful game and generates more interest to local fans than the cowboys. Especially a cowboys team coming off an 8-8 season.
That's just the reality between two teams with no conference ties, no divisional ties, and no meaningful competitive history between them, and the cowboys don't hold a candle to the interest generated when the steelers come to town which, as usual, had the highest attendance of all our home games.
The steelers are the best home game.
They are our true rivals
Quote:And yet still the Cowboys.
Exactly. Apparently that puts you in the same business acumen as the rest of the rubes aside from Predator. He's the only one who embraces the brilliance.
Quote:The steelers are the best home game.
They are our true rivals
They haven't been true rivals since the division was blown up. Ask a steeler fan who their true rivals are and Jacksonville won't get a single mention. A rivalry is a 2 way street.
Who is the Jags biggest rival right now?
Quote:They haven't been true rivals since the division was blown up. Ask a steeler fan who their true rivals are and Jacksonville won't get a single mention. A rivalry is a 2 way street.
Who cares what a steelers fan thinks. It obviously has no effect on the attendance. The steelers still are the biggest NFL sell in this town and all you have to do is go all the way back to last season to see they drew the highest attendance of any home game in Jacksonville. More than any other "true rivals".
Just like it is every year they play here.
Quote:Who cares what a steelers fan thinks. It obviously has no effect on the attendance. The steelers still are the biggest NFL sell in this town and all you have to do is go all the way back to last season to see they drew the highest attendance of any home game in Jacksonville. More than any other "true rivals".
Just like it is every year they play here.
You're the one spinning it as a rivalry game. That's not how they see it. They snap up tickets to away games at any venue they're playing at if they are available. Are you implying that they're rivals with every other NFL team as well? You say the steelers are the biggest NFL sell in this town. It's not Jaguar fans buying up all those extra tickets. The fact that you think this makes them rivals is laughable. This isn't 2001.
Quote:You're the one spinning it as a rivalry game. That's not how they see it. They snap up tickets to away games at any venue they're playing at if they are available. Are you implying that they're rivals with every other NFL team as well? You say the steelers are the biggest NFL sell in this town. It's not Jaguar fans buying up all those extra tickets. The fact that you think this makes them rivals is laughable. This isn't 2001.
I'm not spinning anything. The steelers game is the biggest sell in this town, the most premium NFL regular season game that comes to this venue regardless of who is buting tickets. Who on earth do you think would be buying any extra tickets for the cowboys game? It sure as heck wouldn't be jaguar fans.
Who do you think you are trying to fool? Some out of town fans? Some youngsters who haven't experienced multiple steeler game?
To sit here and say the steelers game isn't the most premium NFL game every time they come to town is laughable.
Anyone who has ever been knows you are lying through your teeth.
I don't understand how the Jaguars make revenue by moving any high profile game overseas. This can't sit well with the city and its fans. As a competent businessman like Khan I don't understand these moves. If you want the team to garner more interest and fans maybe wait until the team is winning.
Quote:They haven't been true rivals since the division was blown up. Ask a steeler fan who their true rivals are and Jacksonville won't get a single mention. A rivalry is a 2 way street.
I work with a Steeler fan who remembers the good ol days of the AFCC
He still considers the Jaguars franchise as an out of division rival.
Though the rivalry has been weakened by not facing each other as often.
Even after the realignment, it seemed we pulled the Steelers about as often as the Pats and clots were playing each other.
Likely because we were finishing in the same 2nd place as them for awhile, plus getting the AFCN every 3 years.
And we played some slobberknockers.
I'd say the rivalry kind of died as the Jaguars talent level did.
It's like in 07 we punched them in the mouth one last good time...
and then ran away and hid like little girls lol
They need to sell the NFL to London. Obv. the Jags are impossible to root for, but watching a team like Green Bay run up the score may be entertaining for London
Quote:I work with a Steeler fan who remembers the good ol days of the AFCC
He still considers the Jaguars franchise as an out of division rival.
Though the rivalry has been weakened by not facing each other as often.
Even after the realignment, it seemed we pulled the Steelers about as often as the Pats and clots were playing each other.
Likely because we were finishing in the same 2nd place as them for awhile, plus getting the AFCN every 3 years.
And we played some slobberknockers.
I'd say the rivalry kind of died as the Jaguars talent level did.
It's like in 07 we punched them in the mouth one last good time...
and then ran away and hid like little girls lol
Co-signed.
I practically live in Steeler Country and most Pittsburgh fans over the age of 30 who were around to know about the days of the AFC Central, still consider us something of a rival...the odd thing is, most of them are also rather supportive face-to-face, unlike if I were a Ravens fan, for example. It's like, no matter how bad we may be when we play Pittsburgh, it's rarely an easy out and they acknowledge that.
Quote:Co-signed.
I practically live in Steeler Country and most Pittsburgh fans over the age of 30 who were around to know about the days of the AFC Central, still consider us something of a rival...the odd thing is, most of them are also rather supportive face-to-face, unlike if I were a Ravens fan, for example. It's like, no matter how bad we may be when we play Pittsburgh, it's rarely an easy out and they acknowledge that.
We were the upstart franchise that challenged their dominace in the old NFC central. Of course the rivalry isn't the same as it used to be, but we still hold a 12-11 record advantage against them so they know they can snub their noses at us.
All you have to do is hear the buzz in town and see the sellouts whenever they come to play to know something still exists.
The Jaguars play the Bills in 2015, a team where the fans don't travel as much down to Jacksonville as other teams do such as the Packers.
The Jaguars have never won in London, and you would think the Owner would want an easy win to make them look good if it is all about Branding (or if you felt his intentions
was to move the team there eventually).
The 49ers and the Cowboys the last two seasons might had to do with the Rams that had backed out of the deal when the Jaguars stepped up or he may of just felt that
the amount of fans watching those games was good towards the Branding of the Jaguars & that the team wouldn't have won those games in Jacksonville either.
The 2016 NFL London game will most likely be the Jaguars vs the KC Chiefs
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