(02-05-2020, 02:47 PM)hb1148 Wrote:

(02-05-2020, 02:39 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Jackson DeVille is saying a 4-4 home split was the plan all along.
I think this is actually the best solution.
The team would be financially sustainable and the games in Jax would be sold out.

Why do you think the home games would be sold out? Just because it's NFL football? At the price of tickets, that's not sustainable over time.

No, no, it's ok! Khan will lower the price of season tickets by 10% to make up for taking half the games to England.

(02-05-2020, 03:03 PM)D6 Wrote: I don't think that any Jacksonville Jaguars fan deep down wants the Jaguars to move.  How can any Jacksonville Jaguars fan be blamed though for no longer supporting the team financially,  knowing that Shad Khan is not fully committed to Jacksonville?   Khan has put Jacksonville Jaguars fans in a catch 22 situation.   It's reminding me of the situation Stan Kroenke created regarding St. Louis Rams fans.

Do I want it to happen? Of course not. This is my team. I grew up alongside them. I got angry at my parents because we weren't home in time to catch the beginning of the first game ever on TV. I have a very vivid memory of my dad racing through downtown Jacksonville as Boyz II Men performed the national anthem on the radio. You know, back when people had radios.

But at some point, enough is enough. Weaver just vaguely opined about ticket sales and a lack of local support maybe being a serious problem or something. Khan has now moved 25% of the team's home games to a city on the other side of the world that the NFL has been dabbling with for over ten years now as a possible home for a franchise. It just so happens to be an infinitely larger city than Jacksonville with infinitely larger income potential and Khan, like any good businessman with more zeroes after his name than this entire board put together would make in a hundred lifetimes, wants more zeroes. Capitalism, yo. Oh, and Khan's investments in downtown Jacksonville? Those pale in comparison to what he wants to do in London in terms of buying Wembley Stadium outright. These are not the actions of someone who intends to make Jacksonville the home of the Jaguars forever. It's what someone who is working on moving the team but doesn't want to upset the locals too much would do.

If Khan can't get London to work, he sells the Jags, period. Maybe this time to someone who wants to take them to San Antonio, or someone who's got a stadium dealing waiting in St. Louis. The point is that when you spend 15+ years hearing about how your team is going to move, you can tune it out. When you're hearing that and the owner is moving games to the city that the team has been linked to ever since LA fell off the map for us, at some point you lose faith and the ability to trust that your team's management wants your team to stay where it is.

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