BREAKING NEWS: "No."
by Alfie Crow on Sep 9, 2010 1:51 PM EDT
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I have some very important breaking news.
No one will be surprised if the crowd is wearing more No. 15 jerseys than the combined number of Jaguars jerseys. - Adam Schefter, ESPN
Actually, everyone on the face of the planet who isn't completely lazy and actually has a clue will be surprised, unless you think there will be less than oh... 7,000 people total will be at EverBank Field.
Sunday's opener against Denver is sold out and will be televised locally in Jacksonville because the Broncos' No. 2 (or 3?) quarterback is a local kid who made good. And that could be it this season for Jaguars sellouts. We're serious. - Don Banks, Sports Illustrated
You might be serious Don, but that doesn't make you any less wrong. It's very likely the following two home games will be sold out against the Eagles and Colts. I guess the No. 2/3 quarterback in Denver sold those out too, by proxy. Not the mention the half pack of tickets including Sunday's game was outsold by over a 2 to 1 clip. I guess actually calling the ticket office or the Jacksonville Jaguars public relations staff is just too hard for you.
On the show (Jaguars This Week), I reported that I had acquired information that the half-pack that doesn’t include the Denver game has out-sold the half-pack that includes the Denver game 2-1. Being that there’s been no single-game ticket sale for the Denver game, it’s a fact that there’s no evidence to suggest the Broncos’ backup quarterback has driven ticket sales for this game. All of the evidence suggests that the preponderance of fans that will attend Sunday’s game are coming to see the Jaguars, not the backup quarterback. I’m sure a lot of them are also Tebow fans and will wear his jersey, but hard ticket-sales facts do not support the notion that he’s driving sales. - Vic Ketchman, Jaguars.com (via duvaljag in the comments)
In case you can't tell, this stuff is driving me insane. I'm trying to ignore it, but it's impossible.
On the level of absolute beating the Jaguars fanbase is taking over this, it is insulting and you should feel insulted. It's degrading. National media is telling everyone we're not good enough and we needed a University of Florida product as a back up on the other team coming to town to sell tickets.
I've already gone on two Colorado talk shows under the guise of talking about the Jaguars/Broncos this weekend, only to have the conversation dominated by Tim Tebow talk. I'm at my breaking point, honestly. I feel terrible for Tim Tebow, the actual kid, whom I have no ill-will against. He's never going to live up to any of this and it's heartbreaking. I don't hate Tim Tebow as much as I hate the legion of Tim Tebow.
Stop ignoring it. Ignoring it isn't going to make it go away.
Fight back. Prove everyone wrong.
The national media continually quips, "Will there be more Tebow jerseys in Jacksonville than Jaguars jerseys?"
No, there won't. Guaranteed.
Just because of this, I'm sitting in my ticket seat on Sunday, putting on my fan hat, and wearing my Daryl Smith jersey.
CIRCLE THE WAGONS BOYS AND GIRLS!
That's the end of my rant.
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GET YOUR TEAL ON, JAG FANS!!!
Anyone else going to the pep rally at the Town Center tommorrow? Alualu, Kirk Morrison, and others…
im going to try to make it out there..........
probably wont make the pep rally, but ill be at the whisky river thing at 6
frankDUBZ aka Frank Silba
"I'm smacking you with the truth......" - Me
Great post
Its getting ridiculous. Only way to get the media to pay attention to us – WINS!!!
The wins will cure everything!
todays ask vic
“On the show, I reported that I had acquired information that the half-pack that doesn’t include the Denver game has out-sold the half-pack that includes the Denver game 2-1. Being that there’s been no single-game ticket sale for the Denver game, it’s a fact that there’s no evidence to suggest the Broncos’ backup quarterback has driven ticket sales for this game. All of the evidence suggests that the preponderance of fans that will attend Sunday’s game are coming to see the Jaguars, not the backup quarterback. I’m sure a lot of them are also Tebow fans and will wear his jersey, but hard ticket-sales facts do not support the notion that he’s driving sales”
case in point
what?
you want “reporters” to make phone calls and actually gather information to support their imaginative hypotheses?
on another note, and I can’t refind the article, but the head of NFL Business Section (or some such), said ticket sales are down league-wide, and that it would take “an exceptional situation” for a team to increase its tickes sales.
Great Post Alfie! Keep em' Coming
EverBank will be a sea of TEAL come sunday…..Time to beat denver down HARD!!! and this tebow bs is an after thoughts!
I live in maryland
So unfortunately i cant be in jacksonville, but I’ll be cheering my heart out from MD. It gives me chills to think of Everbank full and rowdy.
But it gives me even more chills to think what huge game this is for the jaguars. How awesome would it be to smack the broncos back to colorado with a big loss.
GO JAGS! cant wait till sunday
Oh yeah!
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Sep 9, 2010 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Atlanta will be representing
I’ve instructed the local ATL Jags to be in their teal and black! Everyone is complying, and we"ll be ready to get our brand new “Mojo is my Mofo” t-shirts as well. Go Jags!!!
by ATLJagsMan on Sep 9, 2010 1:47 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
"I might be a little husky...
But I ain’t notoriously BIG!"
lol…. that’s great.
WTF IS THE INTERNET?!?
Not surprising
This, unfortunately, has come to be expected.
Can someone ask Schefter if the Jaguars are still interested in Jake Plummer because of his connection to Dirk Koetter? A connection that does not exist considering Plummer never played for Koetter at ASU.
The Banks quote is also extremely misinformed. Just like most of the national media.
As pissed as this makes me.....
I hope and pray, and am fairly confident, that it is pissing off the group that will take the field on Sunday. Think about it, their comments may indicate that we are not good enough fans to buy tickets, which is a shot at us (even though most on this site will be at EverBank on Sunday), but it also implies that this team is not good enough to warrant ticket sales on their own ability. That it takes a bench warmer from the other team to get people in the seats BECAUSE THE JAGS ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! Bullshit!! There is no way, as an athlete, let alone a pro athlete, I would tolerate that one minute without showing the stupid F****** national media how wrong they were.
This plea goes to the Jacksonville Jaguars. GET YOUR HEADS ON AND TAKE THE BRONCO’S HEADS OFF ON SUNDAY. We will be there for you. You make sure you are there for us!
I got my $5 Jag Tee Son!
Talking to my boy, my neighbor in Section 435 (REPRESENT!), who was trying to get 2 together for his sister and bro in law and couldn’t. No 2 seats are available together in the general bowl for the Denver game.
TEAL OUT is in effect. We’re gonna CRUSH the Broncos on Sunday.
WTF IS THE INTERNET?!?
Up Top
FF, I’m in seat 26 all year brother. There’s a bunch of us that go and sit together up there. My first year of season tickets but most of them have been there for as long as I can remember. Look up, we’ll be there. If not, you will hear us…
WTF IS THE INTERNET?!?
I will come see you on Sunday....
and look for us as you go to your seat! Can I assume you still sport the beard?
The beard has become a Jacksonville landmark
You can’t miss it! It flows in the breeze. HOPEFULLY we can get a breeze. I will give a shout out and a hand shake on the way up for sure. I’ll probably need to take a knee and catch my breath anyway.
WTF IS THE INTERNET?!?
Ofcourse we are at the top
If you’re going to be a monkey, you might as well be a gorilla. That or until we can afford the club seats. FF isle seat right here. the guys that are usually standing at the top of the isle. Sundays are going to be fun again. Come on up and say hi
My wife and I are in 436 just a couple of rows back from you seats 1 and 2. See you Sunday, aisle buddy!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~Carl Sagan
Awesome......
There is a crazy guy, about 1 or two rows back, 6 or so seats in from our aisle, in 436. Do you know who I am talking about? He is fanatical, and I say crazy only because of his incredible passion. He is about 40 – 50 with short brown hair.
Hell yeah, I love that guy. I sometimes worry about his safety though. Between the jumping, the pacing back and forth, and the out of control high fives, I fear that he might take a tumble into the next row. Nobody can question that dude’s love for his team though.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~Carl Sagan
I'll be wearing my brand new 93 jersey
Section 412. Warning to any 15 jerseys in my vicinity: YOU WILL BE OFFENDED
Right ther with ya brotha!
Section 412 representin! Get some real JAGUAR LOVE!!! Lets get it on DUVAL!
How people like to say in the US
Never mind the facts if they are an obticle for a good story.
Man even Brian Sexton and Vic crushing some of their colleagues now!
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Sep 9, 2010 2:32 PM EDT reply actions
Here's the new slogan for ESPN
ESPN: Where we don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.
You can't reason with unreasonable people.
Glad to hear....
the energy for the Jags is back!! GO JAGS!!!
I'm thinking...
the EXACT same thing! Everyone at BCC just made my day!!!! I love you guys (and you too Alfie)!
by The Rickness on Sep 10, 2010 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
+1 except Michel C Wright and Paul Kuharsky
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Sep 9, 2010 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions
No Micheal C. Wright
took a cheapshot about two months ago. He is like the rest of them Z!!!!
He is accurate
about the Jags all the time. Very few out of town reporter can say that!
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Sep 10, 2010 8:00 AM EDT up reply actions
He is a cool guy still
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Sep 10, 2010 7:59 AM EDT up reply actions
I'll give Wright a lot of credit
He did a damn fine job as the beat guy here. He was probably one of the better beat guys the TU had, never looking for an angle to make himself part of the story that I could see and he built up enough credibility and confidence in the locker room.
And really, if you think about it, didn’t we as a city and a fanbase, DESERVE a cheap shot or two? I’ll take a shot from a guy who lived here over a shot from someone who doesn’t even know where Jacksonville is.
But, hey, the past is the past, and while we may not shed the yokel label, we can shed the apathetic fanbase label.
Facts?......
we don’t need no stinking facts! Can’t wait until Sunday, I’ll be wearing this years first round pick’s jersey and it ain’t 15! #93 Baby! I might even start a cheer…AluAluAluAluAlu! Of course, after a few brews.
Coming from a lifelong Gator and Jaguar fan...
I hate the fact that Gator Nation (Esp. the Jacksonville locals) will even consider wearing the UF #15 jersey to the game. I have argued this with people whom I know that will be doing this. Sadly they say the Jags suck and they are their to support Tebow. I have cheered Tebow for the last 4 years and I truely admire what he has done for NCAAFB and I most certainly wish him the best in his career and so forh… but this is now the NFL. I will not ever cheer for him nor root for his team as long as he isnt dawning a Jaguars jersey. I’m not saying I wish he was a Jaguar, but I will admit part of me wanted to draft him at some point this draft. Unlike everyone else I do think that Tebow will pan out in the NFL as a good QB….and for that I would have liked to have taken him late in the draft. But he took off his Gator jersey and with that goes my support, in college you support the school and team not individual player…hence why some schools don’t even put names on jerseys.
It sickens me that even “Jag Fans” ran out and snatched up that Broncos Tebow jersey or will be wearing a gator jersey to the jaguar game. Then again…with fans like that we def could stand to lose them.
Go Jags!
While I'd prefer they wear Jaguars attire
I’d certainly rather people wear a gators jersey than a Broncos jersey. Heck, there were probably a few hundred UF Tebow shirts in the stands the past few years anyway.
DG is the best we have and help is not on the way. I realize he's not perfect, but I feel a lot better about him at QB than I do the O-Line, DB's and LB's ability to cover a TE.
This post...
should be distributed via fliers dropped from an airplane circling jacksonville. I think it’d get everyone fired up.
I don’t live there, but I"m a huge jags fan in Illinois. no ill will against tebow, just the hype.
Local media carrying the torch
Hick, Vic, and Alfie are all getting pissed about the bullshit reporting perpetrated by their peers in the media outside of Jax. The fans have been lamenting this point for several years. “We get no respect.”
Is it oversensitive to bewail this perceived inequity?
Yeah, it probably is. At least now, members of our local media are starting to get a little peeved. Starting to bark back, confront their cohorts, hold them accountable. It makes me proud to see Jacksonville come together and stand behind this team the way we have this year. I love that you guys are being standard bearers for our city, and the truth. Well done, Crow.
Vae Victis!
If they...
wear Tebow jerseys to the game, spit on them and beat the hell out of them. LOL
Proving what?
I’m from Florida, but spent alot of time in CO. Denver has always had a reputation as a classy franchise, and the Broncos are up there all-time for consecutive sell-outs. The fans can be rough verbally like most fans, but not known for violence. Suggesting violence against other fans, even in “jest,” is reprehensible. Show some class.
I'll be reppin'
My Jags as hard as I can all the way out in the Bay area CA. But I’ll be seein’ em in SD next week. Go Jags!
by Delson on Sep 10, 2010 1:15 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I'm so sad
That I can’t make it to a game!
I’ll be representing from the Last Frontier baby! Alaska, whoo!!
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