There were plenty of reasons why the crowd was smaller than average Thursday night.  Most of them go away if the team is winning.

 

Weather was a factor (it was raining for my most of the drive up from Orlando and was still raining when we arrived at the parking lot), that keeps fans away, especially when the team is losing.  It was a late game.  By the time I got to bed it was 2 AM and I have to get up at 5:30 for work.  Made for a long day on Friday.   Lots of people (who ARE fans, just maybe not die hard fans) won't go on three hours of sleep to sit in what was predicted to be a rainy stadium to watch what has been a losing team.  

 

Personally given all those factors, I think the crowd was pretty good and surprisingly loud.   Jaguars fans deserve credit for showing up in the numbers we do given the past several years of Jaguars football.  

 


 

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