(11-03-2019, 12:43 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: Unless they cover the stadium with a roof, most people would rather watch a game from the comfort of their own living room.

The Jags aren’t good enough to sell out every game. But this Minshew kid might change that. It will be the house that Minshew Mania built.

We buy season tickets every year, but to be honest my mom and dad are afraid of downtown. They are afraid of the homeless people and they are afraid to park their vehicles.

The stadium is not very inviting and it’s out dated. The swimming pools were a cool addition but that ain’t getting my parents off the couch to drive 30 minutes to a pro football game, pay $20 for a drink, stand in line, walk up the ramp to the nose bleed section, sit in the 99 degree sun for 3 hours, walk back down the ramp and another mile to their vehicle, fight traffic for an hour on the way home, and spend around $100.

They would rather sit home and watch it in tv.

I am not picking on you or singling you out, but your post begs the question of exactly what it needs to be "very inviting."

For a fanbase that is supposedly so passionate about football, we (not you)_ do a lot of complaining about the stadium.

A lot.

Cupholders.

Escalators.

On and on and on.

Does anyone remember what the old Gator Bowl was like before the NFL awarded us the Jaguars?

I don't recall any of these complaints when the Bulls played here and stadium had bleachers. 

Yeah...bleachers. 

Not even with back rests.  No Cupholders or escalators.  Video boards?  Club seats?  Pffft!

The bathrooms were literally piss troughs.


People still merrily filled the stadium for Fla-Georgia.

Had the Jaguars not come to town, the stadium renovations would have been a fraction of what they were to transform the stadium into Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.

Okay...it gets hot at the stadium and it could pose a health risk if it gets too hot.

But cold weather poses a health risk too, and there are plenty of outdoor cold weather cities that don't have domed climate controlled stadiums who support the team.  Heck given the snow that often is there, it takes even more of an effort to get to the stadium in cold weather, whether the stadiums are domed or not.

Forget putting a stadium in the suburbs.  People won't want the traffic, the noise, the litter, the drunkenness in their neighborhoods.  Besides, Khan is putting a ton of money into downtown.  Or is trying to.

So what's it going to take to make the stadium inviting?

Does First Baptist need to set up a stadium campus?  They've owned/controlled virtually all of downtown for decades, and downtown isn't any more desirable a destination.

Red carpets and rose bearers for all fans?!?

Massages?

Lap dances?

Some..."Kraft" treatment?

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