Coach Marrone , Jalen Ramsey and the rest of my heroes of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Please, no more “Terrible Feelings”. Don’t you realize what you guys have done for Jacksonville, and the nation? You guys were the Cinderella team of the decade. You came in as the absolute last team pick, and had’em all quaking in their boots. They were all scared.

Guys, please, stand up and yell. You did it. You did more in a season than the city has been able to do for itself in forty years.

There’s always sadness. Think Alabama-Georgia. A certain Hawaiian kid dashed a lot of hopes for Georgia. For Alabama, he probably cost Jalen Hirts $40,000,000. in signing money.

Guys, please, stand up and cheer. You did it.

I’m a 70 year old kid, who couldn’t believe it when you beat Houston, watched you dismember Pittsburg, ran the tale on the west coast,  Pittsburg, again, and had hated New England on the ropes, but LET them tap dance away. It just don’t get much better!

I’ve gotta include one last anecdote. Almost 50 years ago, I was driving my blue '68 Shelby GT500KR convertible daily to college where I parked next to a then unknown basketball players’lavender Cadillac Eldorado convertible. Never a basketball fan, I nevertheless became one.
Of course, the Cadillac belonged to Artis Gilmore, the team JU and they are my heroes still. They lost their shot at the basketball Super Bowl, to John Wooten’s UCLA powerhouse. No one remembers who played in the NCAA final, ‘cause JU had already lost, just like no one will remember this years Super Bowl.
Let us never forget John Wooten used his control of the NCAA to have the dunk shot banned  for two years while the JU teams’ 7 footers had to block shots instead of dunk.
This kid ain’t forgot! Joe Williams, Artis, Pembroke , Chipper, Rex, Greg, this kid ain’t forgot.
 
Damn guys stand up and cheer! You did it! You made us believe again. Maybe fifty years some snot nosed, drooling old football fan will totter to his feet and say Coach Marrone, Jalen, Leonard, Calais, Marcell, THIS KID AINT FORGOT.

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