Quote:If the media ever decides to post them which is the question.

 

From reading the 13 different stories on this only 1 publication actually stated the Bakery defaulted on the loan which is part of the reason Khan is taking over.

Exactly.  You have to dig a lot deeper to find the truth because the local media is really trying to spin that story like Khan is the bad guy.  They all have their own agendas.

 

I know that ever since the city got the team, there have always been a small but vocal group of detractors who howl about anything involving this team.  They resent that the team took a major leap forward by becoming an NFL city, and they hate the way the city has continued to grow since that happened.  They fight everything that advances the team tooth and nail, and relish every opportunity to trash the Jags in their never-ending quest to keep Jacksonville in the Cow Ford mode they prefer. 

 

I don't want to portray Khan like some sort of saint.  He's a businessman who is intent on bolstering his bottom line.  Nothing wrong with that.  As his bottom line rises, so does the bottom line for those who have hitched their wagons to his. 

 

Any time I see the discussions about relocation start to pop up again, I have to laugh because it's clear the team has decided to put roots down here assuring that won't happen.  Unless the bottom completely falls out here in Jacksonville, I think we can rest assured the team is going to be here for the long-term.  Especially when I see the activities ownership is involved with in the community.  I look at Shad Khan as a guy who has spent his life being the underdog who found success, and I think he sees Jacksonville as a similar story.  We're the underdog small market in the NFL.  His goals with his efforts to promote the city and local businesses is rooted in helping Jacksonville shed the small market stigma and grow itself into something bigger.  I was skeptical when he first signed on, but he's proven with each action he's taken both with the team and with the city that while WE think we're a small market town, that's not the vision he has for us long-term.  His mission is to get people to buy into what he sees as the long term success of this city.

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