Jaguar Fans Staying Away in Droves

[Keith]

With 17,000 of 42,000 season-ticket holders not renewing this year, according to Jaguars senior vice president Tim Connolly, it'd take a miracle beyond a Hail Mary pass to sell the required 50,200 non-premium tickets for the NFL's blackout policy to be lifted.
http://www.jacksonville.com/sports/columnists/gene_frenette/2009-07-26/story/jaguars_cant_avoid_2009_blackouts

[superbowlbound]

ha! and we've sold 61,000 season tickets. Jacksonville blows.

[cloudwasher]

Once the blackouts start, the fan support will begin to plummet even lower. Its only a matter of years until the franchise relocates. Looks like LA will be getting a football team soon.....

[papabear]

Once the blackouts start, the fan support will begin to plummet even lower. Its only a matter of years until the franchise relocates. Looks like LA will be getting a football team soon.....


I understand the blackout idea that if the games are on TV people don't have as much reason to buy tickets. The problem for Jacksonville is that it's been an issue long enough that it only serves to further diminish fan support.

[Dave]

Worst. Fans. Ever.

This is what happens when you put a third-rate organization in a fourth-rate stadium in a fifth-rate "city" with a sixth-rate fanbase.

[Keith]

Jags are announcing ALREADY that all home games this season will be blacked out. As if that might increase ticket sales or something...?

The Jaguars play the first of 10 home games this year Saturday night — two in the preseason and eight in the regular season — and the team has already announced all 10 will be blacked out on TV because of a lack of ticket sales.

This will be the first time in their 15-year history that they’ve blacked out all 10 games

http://jacksonville.com/sports/football/jaguars/2009-08-21/story/jaguars_ready_for_string_of_blackouts

[painekiller]

Well it only a matter of time

LA Jags (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slMTiDZuVp0)

[NBT]

Jax, being a military service town, has too transcient a population for it to have the stability to sell out on a regular basis. The same can be said of San Antonio. That is why it probably will never be an NFL city ( along with Houston and Dallas already having teams, of course).

[Nconroe]

Might be because Jacksonville isn't that big either.

if you put Austin and San Antonio together its a pretty large audience.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/09/10/nielsen-local-television-market-universe-estimates/5037

[HPF Bob]

It was kind of a dumb choice to begin with but I'm starting to believe the NFL never is going to put a team in Los Angeles. The rest of the league now uses it as a way to threaten cities into better stadium deals. Who's going to believe a threatened move to L.A. isn't credible? Yet, there hasn't been a team there now in over 15 years.

Angelenos already have a pro team - the USC Trojans.