(05-02-2018, 12:47 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(05-02-2018, 12:39 PM)B2hibry Wrote: That's a huge assumption that the teams valuation would double with a London move. There are a ton of factors that financially don't support that idea or the move. The biggest risk is whether the market is viable. Part of your assumption is that that market will support the Jags equal or greater than current market. The long term answer is no it won't. Also in your revenue comparison there needs to be an understanding that less than 17% of revenue (from your own link) is derived from ticketing. Who is going to make up the rest? Certainly not the current fan base you just shunned. Now you will need to rely on the fan base in London to make that up. Take a look at the link and you'll get a snapshot as to why assuming the UK fan will pick up the Jags slack is dangerous.

http://www.nflgirluk.com/2016/01/24/nfl-...ts-are-in/

London's population is 9 million
England's population is 53 million
UKs population is 65 million

IMO Khan would have no issues capturing the UK's population by marketing the team as Home of the UK Jags.  Right now, the Jags are comparable to a Premier League team (Southampton) playing here in Jacksonville for a single match.  The interest wouldn't be 100% but I guarentee you if Southampton moved their team to Jacksonville, you'd capture the entire state of Florida as your fanbase as fans would flock to see them play the top English Soccer teams on a weekly basis here in Jacksonville.

The portion of that population that actually follows the NFL seriously enough to be used as a home fanbase is tiny. And the vast majority of those people already have teams they support.  Would a portion move to a London Jaguars team? Sure, but it's still a tiny amount of people.  

If the Jaguars ever fully moved to London they would be a novelty item for the first 20 years. Even then American football is so outside of English culture that I can't see it ever becoming that big. 

Soccer became big in America becuase theres so much grass roots movement and it's very easy to pick up and play. That wouldn't be the case in the UK at all.

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