(10-06-2024, 11:44 PM)83Austin83 Wrote: Not in season related but something that we all know is coming up for the Jaguars. Obviously with the upcoming construction, the Jaguars are playing their 2027 schedule outside of Jacksonville. I know the Jags were considering the Daytona International Speedway but that fell apart. And there are no other options in Jacksonville for the Jags to use. 

Tampa and Miami would be out for obvious reasons. Savannah wouldn't have the facilities and Tallahassee is too isolated. That essentially leaves the Jags with two options, Gainesville at The Swamp and Orlando at Camping World Stadium.

Orlando of course is the only major city in Florida without an NFL team. And as it stands now, Orlando will probably never get an NFL team. The Jags, Bucs and Dolphins would all fight against it and do everything possible to never allow it. This will probably be the only time Orlando has any leverage against the Jags and the NFL. If I'm Orlando and the Camping World Stadium authorities, I only allow the Jags to play the 2027 season in Orlando on the following conditions:

1) The Jags have to split the cost with Orlando (or fund it entirely themselves) for any required upgrades to Camping World Stadium..
2) The Jags, after the 2027 season, have to commit to play one home game in Orlando every year for 20 years. Now that the NFL has a 17 game format, in years where the Jags have 8 home games, the Orlando game would be a preseason game. In years where the Jags have 9 home games, those would be years where the Jags play a regular season game in Orlando. 

So again essentially Orlando would get 1 game for 20 years, with it rotating each year between a preseason game and a home game. I think it's a fair condition, and if the Jags don't like it then as an Orlando resident I'm fine with the city telling the Jags to pound sand and they can play the 2027 season in Gainesville. Gainesville has no leverage against the Jags, but I definitely think Orlando does now that the Daytona International Speedway idea is dead.

What do you all think? Would you all be willing to play either one regular season game or one preseason game every year in Orlando for twenty years as compensation for being allowed to play the 2027 season in Orlando? Do you think it would help actually build up a fan base for the Jags in Orlando (something the Jags have tried for years but have never succeeded in actually doing)?

First, if the cost to the jags are what you said it will be a hard no. Our tax dollars upgrading their stadium? That would cost Deegan her job as mayor. What would happen is the money spent upgrading UNF or another facility here (soccer) will come into play. The money would then be the same and leave an upgraded facility in Jacksonville after everything is said and done. The Chargers played in a 25k seat stadium for a period while theirs was being built. The upgrades Camping world needs is in excess of 60million about what UF is spending now.

 Orlando has no leverage at all.  A home game there? LOL  No, no, no ... Only peeps that believe that must live in Orlando. I would counsel them to be very careful playing hard ball with a guy like Kahn.

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