Quote:The lease may be bent but not broken. In addition to playing one game per year in London I am a strong advocate of playing one pre-seaon game per year in Orlando once the Citrus bowl completes it's $200 million renovation. It is vital we start making serious progress in the Orlando market. The London game does increase franchise profitablility which in turn solidifies our future in Jax. This in the short term is taking revenue from Jax but will be better for the city in the long term. The law of supply and demand also states that we will have less pressure selling out our home games as demand will be increased for the overall decrease in gross tickets available which willl also be better for our franchise.

 

I do not see the price of the scoreboards as excessive with bed tax money being used that is already committed to the sports complex . Not to mention these upgrades will increase team revenue which in turn will create more revenue for the city . It will also draw more events to the stadium and help insure we do not lose the Florida/ Georgia game to cities like Orlando or Atlanta which will also help fill our coffers.

 

As for the new lease I absolutely agree. We need it to be as strong and nasty as possible. If we are going to pay for these upgrades we definitely deserve some peace of mind in return.

 

I also agree with your court of public opinion sentiment. Not so much on the racism aspect because that was pretty embarrassing and did not say a lot about our lack of cosmopolitan views. It is very strong however considering the black eye that was dealt to the NFL when the Browns and Colts abandoned their cities for supposed greener pastures which ultimately led to football returning to the communities.

 

Down $40 million dollars for a scoreboard to nowhere, how much time and money will the city of Jacksonville be willing to devote to fight a foreign legal battle should the moving vans show up at the stadium after midnight?

 

There's an old middle eastern saying that I'm sure Khan knows, "the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on."

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