(02-05-2020, 10:07 AM)Mikey Wrote: Haven't been an STH for a while, so don't really have a dog in the fight, but I feel this needs to be said.

Which teams aren't clouded by the spectre of relocation? The teams that manage to sell their tickets. For ages we've fought blackouts, tarps, crows, and everything else while still saying this is Jacksonville's team and it belongs here. Heck, when the franchise was awarded, part of the selling point was this was the only major sport in town, and wouldn't have to compete for spectator dollars.

So Shad announces another game being relocated, where tickets sell as soon as they are available, and how does the fanbase react? "EAT A BUTT CONN I WON'T GO TO ANY GAMES CONN" If that's the reaction, you've made the complete relocation inevitable. This IS a call to act. If tickets are cheaper, albeit for fewer games, the city should be rallying, shouting that the time is now to get in, be a part, and tell Khan that the fans do in fact care, and won't stand idly by while the team gradually drifts away. How the fanbase responds is so very, very instrumental in the next move.

I wish I had disposable funds to even buy a seat or two for the season, and donate it to a good cause. I grew up in Cleveland, and have endured the loss of the team I loved once already. This doesn't have the same stink on it, I promise. That was an owner holding a city ransom, and the city refuses to bend to his will. The fans and the city still loved their team, and supported them. The one similarity is that there was an adversarial relationship between owner and city/fanbase. That vitriol still remains to this day.

I hope with all hope that this is not the beginning of an end. I hope that fans with the means to do so continue to buy their tickets, and continue to make Jacksonville the home of the Jaguars. I want to see a sea of teal in the stadium for years to come. One day, I'd love to introduce my kids to the greatest feeling in the world, when you walk through the concourse, into the bowl of seats, looking down upon the field, and realize that this is home, the place that brings us joy, and where we'll be for as long as we can imagine.

Fix the O-Line!