To fill that stadium, there needs to be an emotional connection between the fans and the team.  That's because shelling out that much money for a ticket to a football game is not a rational decision.   It's an emotional decision.  And what Khan is either willfully ignoring or simply ignorant of is the fact that it is impossible for local fans to make an emotional connection to a team that appears to have one foot out the door.  

And this is why moving that game to London could do as much to hurt local revenue as it does to help it.   More revenue in London, less revenue in Jacksonville.  It's a zero sum transaction that only accomplishes one thing: damaging the relationship between the team and the fans in Jacksonville.  

Fan support is like a marriage; it's a fragile thing.  It involves trust.  And once that trust is damaged, it is very hard to get it back.  No one will invest themselves emotionally in a relationship where they think they are about to get burned.  

That's why this move is so surprisingly tone-deaf.  If he is sincere in wanting to keep the team in Jacksonville, this might be a huge blunder.  

But of course I am often wrong about many things.  Time will tell.

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