Quote:Exposure means more than just season ticket sales. There are all sorts of revenue streams that exposure helps build and if you expect the team to stay in Jacksonville, then season ticket holders will need to show a little more devotion than being put off by an 80 mile home away from home road trip to a sporting icon.

 

It's Daytona not Timbuktu. The sellout will far outweigh the few crass that are put off by an extra hour drive.

 

Green Bay's fan base makes a trip like this every home game. I don't hear them complaining.

 

We're not Green Bay, and I've never implied Daytona is Timbuktu, but feel free to twist it as you see fit.

 

I get what exposure means.  I also recognize that the overwhelming majority who would show up for a game like that, especially if it's the first time they play football there, will be coming to see the new facility, and won't care one iota about the teams on the field, ESPECIALLY if they recognize it for what it is, which is a glorified practice game where they're not going to see the best either team has to offer. 

 

I think that despite the fact that the team has been downright awful at times over the past several years, the season ticket holders have shown tremendous devotion to the team, even when the team took a regular season game away to play in London.  Go ahead and take another game away, and do it while they're still losing a game to London, and let's see just how understanding the fans can be.  Especially when they are trying to expand the market by playing in Daytona Beach, and particularly after the stadium here has undergone significant renovations intended to be a draw for those fans who only have to drive 80 miles from Daytona to see the Jaguars if that's what they're truly interested in. 

 

The interstate runs both ways you know, and the fan experience at a home Jaguars game will trump going to a speedway to watch a preseason game. 

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