(12-04-2024, 06:28 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(12-04-2024, 06:19 PM)carp8dm Wrote: St. Louis?  San Diego?  And the ever sought after London?  LOL  Heck, OKC, Salt Lake City would also be something they'd discuss.  Salt Lake City held an Olympics...  OKC is fast developing and already has an NBA team.  There are cities that would be happy to get the Jaguars if the owner wanted to go.  And the NFL wouldn't stop that new owner.

I mean, the thing is, Jacksonville is not looked at highly in terms of national reputation when in comes the NFL talking heads.  I'm sure there are several cities a new owner could lobby the other owners to approve of that would leave our city without an NFL team.

San Diego would be an option. Of course, they would have to stick a crowbar in their wallet to build a stadium. Is St. Louis a football city? Why did the Rams leave there?

Yes, St. Louis is a football city. The Rams moved because Kroenke is a piece of [BLEEP] that wanted to go to LA market.

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(12-04-2024, 06:36 PM)carp8dm Wrote:

(12-04-2024, 06:28 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: San Diego would be an option. Of course, they would have to stick a crowbar in their wallet to build a stadium. Is St. Louis a football city? Why did the Rams leave there?

It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, the Owner of the Rams used a demand for a new stadium as leverage to leave St. Loius.  The city hemmed and hawed, but eventually approved a new stadium worth 1.1 Billion in 2005 dollars.  But the NFL owners said, nope, too late.  [BLEEP] you and [BLEEP] these fans, WE are going to move this team LA.

This. The city actually approved plans for a top-notch stadium. But the NFL and Kroenke had no intention of staying in St. Louis. Both wanted to get back into the LA market and just used the stadium as an excuse. It's why they settled with St. Louis for 780 million. St. Louis just [BLEEP] up by not baking a contingency that would require the NFL to give St. Louis another team.

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