Dave Hanzus of NFL.com accuses Jaguars of mis-painting arrows, on purpose.
by Alfie Crow on Oct 3, 2011 11:28 AM EDT
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PrintMost of us have seen the mis-painted arrows on half of the field in the game against the New Orleans Saints, but this is the most ridiculous take I've seen on it thus far. Dave Hanzus of NFL.com essentially contends the Jacksonville Jaguars did it on purpose, for a "homefield advantage", which is absolutely ridiculous?
The Jacksonville Jaguars, apparently abandoning hope that their indifferent fan base can provide a traditional home-field advantage, appear to have resorted to, um, more experimental methods. At least that's how it looked Sunday at EverBank Field, where the arrows on the south side of the field were pointed in the wrong direction for the Jaguars' matchup with the New Orleans Saints.
Please see the photo on top for visual confirmation of the gaffe. Good grief.
As you probably know from every field, on every level, in every league (even the XFL!) in the history of the sport, the arrows are supposed to point toward the nearest end zone.
Call us cynics, but we don't believe this was some accident by a bumbling grounds-crew intern. Something Machiavellian was at play in Jacksonville.
Oh, and really appreciate the "indifferent fanbase" potshot, guy. The Saints TOTALLY looked confused trying to find the endzone. Good call, Dave.
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he's a bleacherreport, pinstripealley, twitter blogger
the thing that confuses me is why nfl.com decided to publish it.
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I don't remember the world hating the Jags this much when Coughlin was here.
How could this [funny] mistake be an advantage?
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someone was probably smoking something and remembered something funny. A reporter once asked Joe Namath if he preferred grass or astroturf. He said, “I don’t know. I’ve never smoked astroturf”.
Jaxson>>>
that was Tug McGraw
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Absolutely ridiculous especially since its not from bleacher report or pft
by rusty904 on Oct 3, 2011 11:42 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Machiavellian
He’s so educated and cultured. How does that term even apply here?
by rusty904 on Oct 3, 2011 11:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It was on yahoo's front page all day yesterday...
It must have been a really slow day in the news yesterday for them to nitpick this much.
This guy gets a paycheck from the NFL? He is a writer whose check is stamped with Goodell's name on it?
If so, why would you be so open and immature in your criticism of an obvious mistake by a team of your employer?
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by tiquanunderwear on Oct 3, 2011 12:45 PM EDT reply actions
I always felt.....
that those arrows were more for TV since you often only see a small part of the field than the players of fans at the game. Maybe we were trying to confuse the guys at Fox.
And the winner of the "Douche-bag of the Week" award goes to....
YOU GUESSED IT! Dave Hanzus!
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Here's my repsonse to Dan's article
Actually the stadium holds 78,000. The tarps cover up 10,000 seats. Jacksonville Florida has 1 million people in the city. Divide 1 million by 65,000 and you get 15. One of of every 15 people goes to the the Jags on Sunday. Now take New York for example since Dan is from there and normally covers baseball, which he should stick to, New york City has 8,175,000. Metlife Stadium holds 82,566 this means one out of every 98 people go to the game. So if you want to put things as illogically as this author did. We can say that Jacksonville has a better fanbase because 1 of every 15 people attend the game on Sundays as opposed to 1 in 98 in New York. That’s indifference for you.
by Bill The Thrill on Oct 3, 2011 2:35 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
major issue with your argument
crazy ass waiting lists for season tickets to the jets and giants. could very well be close to 1 in 15 new yorkers who would be willing to get season tickets. you also have major sports teams in every sport situated in the metropolitan area, so you have a lot of jets and giants fans who choose to buy season tickets fro the mets or yankees or rangers or islanders or devils or knicks or nets, in place of giants or jets season tickets.
He specifically said, "If you want to put things as illogically as this author did"
Are you really breaking his argument down?
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you sure about that waiting list?
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it exists, unless since the PSLs it is no more
but it definitely existed a few years back. I have a friend who was trying to get seats and was told there was a waiting list
I actually got a call from the Redskins telling me that I was eligible to purchase season tickets
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It's not an argument
It just shows how dumb some people can be when discussing the Jags fan base. I know that New York has an awesome fanbase I used to live there but don’t say the Jaguars fanbase is indifferent when you don’t have a clue.
by Bill The Thrill on Oct 3, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
This is all that is
A damn shame because you’d think writing for the official site of the league, you’d keep the trite BS to the real journalists, like those on Bleacher Report.
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Actually, the Jets no longer have a waiting list.
My brother has tickets (used to be mine) and he was able to move to better seats because of the loss of a ton of season ticket holders because of the high PSLs. There was actually tickets available on game days last year, don’t know if that’s still the case.
, but they have no more waiting list.
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