Posted on 10/12/2009 3:23:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Are the days of the Jacksonville Jaguars numbered?
Officials in Los Angles announced Thursday that they're one step closer to building a new $800M football stadium.
It'd be an enticing pull for the struggling Jags.
"It's going to be very interesting to see what happens," says WDBO sports director Scott Anez. "They're just not selling tickets right now."
The games aren't on TV in Jacksonville - blacked out because of empty seats at the stadium. And even though team ownership swears they're staying, Anez assures that plenty of owners would be dying to relocate to the nation's second largest media market.
"The city of Los Angeles has been the Holy Grail as far as a place to relocate an NFL franchise," he said.
If the Jags can't sell tickets and L.A. overcomes hurdles in the way of a new stadium, pressure will mount for the team to leave town.
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LA couldn't even support one team, much less two. Jacksonville has a bad team, and the local economy doesn't help, but LA isn't that much better.
The only team that should move to LA is the Chargers, there is already a built-in fan base, and at least some sense of history and tradition.
...you have to wonder if even parts of the most powerful league in sports are hurting now....little by little, the bad economy is taking a toll.
NFL reminds me of lemmings. How many professional football teams have left LA because they couldn’t make it? And still the NFL wants a team there?
They are just a bad as NASCAR. Every track in Southern California has failed. First Riverside, then Ontario. Now they have the Auto Club Speedway and they are having trouble selling tickets.
I live in L.A. and a Seahawks booster. Obviously, I was ecstatic that Hasselbeck could throw 4 TD’s w broken ribs but JAX move or any franchise move could be sustained if a winning team would move there instead of the hapless Rams who got their butts kicked by a 40 yr old QB last night.
The Chargers have a better chance of staying but I prefer them to be in SD. BTW, the site in L.A. is in Industry. Just to drive there one 1 freeway is already a nightmare.
Has San Diego ponied up for a new stadium yet? If not, then going to the City of Industry would make more sense.
NFL is always going to have a tough time in the South, where SEC Football is king. Most fans in places like Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville are bandwagoners, who will turn out if the team is good, but if not, plenty of empty seats.
After yesterday, will they leave pro football?
That was pretty bad, but I still like Del Rio as a head coach.
After yesterday, will they leave pro football? Oh well, somebody’s got to finish in last place...
The only reason Jacksonville even has a franchise is because fArt modell (aka satan) pushed them over Baltimore’s bid to keep the Baltimore stadium deal available if his stepson kept burning bridges in Cleveland.
L.A. football boosters here from mexicans to blacks to everyone follow the Raiders more than the Chargers, based on my conversations. And no, they havent ponied up the dough...yet or seriously.
They won’t get anymore sales in LA if they don’t stop stinking. 2 trips to the playoffs this century with mostly under 500 seasons just isn’t providing a compelling reason for people to go see the team.
dfwgator,
I understand why you do not want them to move but Jacksonville has one of the smallest fan basses in all football.
They will forever be under financed.
Were they to go to L.S. and make it,
They;’d be.
Well watch the movie Major League.
I will say, it might have made more sense for the team to be located in Orlando than Jacksonville, it’s a much larger population, although I suspect a little too close to Tampa for the Bucs’ liking.
I'm originally from Maryland where Redskins are kings but since I've relocated to the South, I've made friends and some of them just have lukewarm interest toward NFL. If you talk college football with them, well you don't want to start because you'll be up all night talking with them.
Tampa will give them the Bucs if they will take them.
Yep, just here in Dallas in my neighborhood, there is at least one representative for each SEC team, so when we have our get togethers, inevitably that's where the conversation winds up.
Glad to see that Los Angeles is swimming in extra cash to waste on a playground for a sports team.
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