(02-08-2020, 08:33 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: The people in Buffalo have absolutely nothing going on except football.
What makes you say NO?
Buffalo also has Toronto right next door, with a much larger population, a better stadium, and a lot more money. I could also see the Bills trying to pull off a "move to Toronto but still pitch this to Bills fans as their team" move, which worked out oh so well for the Chargers, but the Bills don't care because money.
I think New Orleans is safe at this point. If they survived Katrina and the very open flirtation between Tom Benson and their adopted home in San Antonio, the Saints can survive anything there.
(02-08-2020, 09:28 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I say no because I'm tired. Tired of supporting a bad product. Tired of the accusation that what we in Jacksonville give isnt enough. Tired of being told if we just give them more money then we can keep the right to give them more money. Tired of hearing that winning matters. Tired of wasting hours on Sunday. Tired of playing the tittians on Thursday night. Tired of bad line play, of obsolete football schemes, and Todd Wash. Tired of hearing that Downtown can be revitalized. Tired of the naysayers being right. Tired of it all.
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Even as Weaver was supposedly trying to move the team to LA, he wasn't giving off that vibe from within the organization. Just articles from PFT and ESPN saying that they had heard from one source or another that he wanted to do so, and that he ultimately sold the team because the NFL wanted a higher profile team there and wouldn't sign off on it. Please don't ask me to dig up the articles--I'm only here this morning because I had eight reports dropped on me yesterday afternoon that need to be done by Monday afternoon, each report takes about four hours and, well, you do the math. Just think back to 2005-2009 and how many times the words "Jaguars" and "Los Angeles" appeared in the same sentence.
The signs with Khan were there from the start. He tried to buy the Rams with the intent of moving them to LA and was shot down. There was a clause in his contract buying out the Jaguars that guaranteed Weaver a token sum of money ($5 million-ish?) if Khan moved the team within five years. Not that $5M would have stopped him from moving the team to a market like LA. Why would you put that there unless you knew that the intent was to ultimately move the team? Weaver stopped just short of confirming that was the intention when he said that Khan hadn't given him his word or made any assurances that the team would stay put, and he hadn't pushed for one. Then he shipped out a home game, tried to buy Wembley Stadium, and will likely try again. Then a second home game followed by a "press conference" in which he sat one-on-one with a lightweight team employee/reporter throwing softball questions that were no doubt written by the team for her to ask. Now he's stuck a syringe into Jacksonville's arm and is content to let the city slowly bleed out until London is ready. Even at a 4-4 split, even if that's where it stays (or 4 Jax, 5 London if the 17-gave season happens), these are no longer the Jacksonville Jaguars. They're the London Jaguars, who use Jacksonville as a convenient home base because it's not
too far away and allows them to benefit from US tax and labor laws, so who cares if they play a few games a year in front of 12 fans in one of the top ten swamp cities in northeast Florida?
