Quote:I'll go out on a limb here and guess that many on this board weren't around in 1996. I remember it distinctly.


Nobody ever thought that a 9-7 wildcard team would make it through the first round of the playoffs. Jaguars win 30-27.


Nobody ever thought that they would beat the Denver Broncos in the Divisional Round of the playoffs... in Denver. Jaguars win 30-27.


While we lost in the Championship Game that year, the point is that the Jaguars came out of nowhere and proved all of the critics, fantasy football players and even the fans wrong. Thus the "do you believe in miracles?" campaign. That's where my screen name came from by the way.


I remember going down to the stadium that night, and that was my first experience ever in an NFL stadium. I grabbed season tickets and held them for several seasons, only giving them up for personal reasons within the last few years.


I'm not saying that the current team is going to somehow come out of nowhere and make it that far. What I am saying though is the foundation is being layed down. We have a good young quarterback that is the future of this franchise, some promising young wide receivers and other players that can get us to that point.


It's going to happen. We're going to take our lumps as the team grows and learns, but eventually it's going to happen again. All I'm saying is stay positive.


I started this thread because I have not seen this kind of dedication, nor these kinds of comments coming from players in a long time.

Yea, look back at the scores from that season. Were we getting our butts kicked like we are these days? Nope. One bad loss, 28-3 vs PIT, and all of our other losses were close. This is a second year expansion team btw.

The constant whoopings we are taking these days is unprecedented in franchise history, and extremely rare in NFL history.

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