I lived close to Jacksonville back in '93 when the city was awarded the franchise. They wanted an NFL team so bad, and several teams had used the city as leverage to get a better deal in their home cities. At one point both the Colts & Falcons flirted with moving to Jacksonville, but of course neither did. I watched the ceremony live on a Jacksonville TV station when they revealed the second expansion team (they had already announced the Carolina Panthers), and when it was revealed to be Jacksonville, the city went crazy. They strongly supported that team, and it had pretty fast success.
I’m glad for the city that the team is still there, and I still root for them when they’re not playing the Falcons.
I grew up in the Jax area, and I was in junior high when the team was announced. It’s hard to explain what a validation of the entire community the team was, as irrational as it is.
I left over twenty years ago, and wouldn’t want to live there again, but the Jags are the one part of Jacksonville I won’t give up.
I lived close to Jacksonville back in '93 when the city was awarded the franchise. They wanted an NFL team so bad, and several teams had used the city as leverage to get a better deal in their home cities. At one point both the Colts & Falcons flirted with moving to Jacksonville, but of course neither did. I watched the ceremony live on a Jacksonville TV station when they revealed the second expansion team (they had already announced the Carolina Panthers), and when it was revealed to be Jacksonville, the city went crazy. They strongly supported that team, and it had pretty fast success.
I’m glad for the city that the team is still there, and I still root for them when they’re not playing the Falcons.
I grew up in the Jax area, and I was in junior high when the team was announced. It’s hard to explain what a validation of the entire community the team was, as irrational as it is.
I left over twenty years ago, and wouldn’t want to live there again, but the Jags are the one part of Jacksonville I won’t give up.
That’s a GREAT way to put it.