John Oehser and Pete Prisco wrote a book called Jags to Riches about the 15-year process of bringing the NFL to Jacksonville, 2-year process of forming a team, and a quicker-than-expected rise from 4-12 to the AFC Championship Game. Unfortunately they did not write anything about the need to change our logo before our first game  because of a copyright issue, but I learned a lot about the formation and early years of the franchise. For example, who would have guessed we nearly got the Cardinals, Saints, and Colts before the city finally realized it needed an expansion team instead of an existing one? Or that Jacksonville had been trying to get a team since I was 2?

 

I never knew the NFL was talking about expansion that year. In fact I did not even know which division every team was in or that games are played on Sunday night. So to even try to guess where I was or what I was doing on November 30, 1993 at 4:15 p.m. would be really stupid. But one thing I do know is I became a Jaguars fan in August 1997, so the first four times we played against the Bengals, I rooted for Cincinnati.

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