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The Orlando Jaguars?
Topic Started: Sep 30 2009, 01:00 AM (569 Views)
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Wayne Weaver, the owner of the financially strapped Jacksonville Jaguars, can envision a day not too far down the road when Orlando could become his team's second home.

We're not just talking about the current setup where Central Florida is designated as a "secondary" television market for the Jaguars. No, we're talking about the Jags actually coming to Orlando to play football games -- real live regular-season NFL games.

In a recent interview with the Sentinel, Weaver said the NFL is likely to add two games and go to an 18-game regular season within the next three years. If it happens, Weaver, whose team is already struggling mightily to sell tickets in Jacksonville, is keeping a watchful eye on football-starved Orlando as a place where he could play games and grow his fan base.

"There's certainly the possibility that we would play some out-of-market games," Weaver said. "If it happened, Orlando would be the best option and most reasonable location.

"In the past, we have reached out to try and cultivate that market and haven't had as much success as we would have liked. We probably need to do a better job. That's a given. We are looking at a long-term strategy and thinking out of the box on how we can build a fan base in Orlando."

You hear that, Orlando?

You hear that, Rich Crotty and Buddy Dyer and all you other movers and shakers?

You guys want a legacy? Bring the NFL to Orlando and you will have your legacy.

Instead of building fake bridges, we should mobilize immediately to figure out a way to build a real football stadium for a real NFL team.

This is our opening.

This is our chance to get our foot in the door with the NFL.

And once your foot is in the door maybe you can get your name on a team.

The Orlando Jaguars sort of has a nice ring to it, don't you think?

Granted, it's premature evacuation to predict the Jaguars will leave Jacksonville someday. But it's certainly not premature to say the Jaguars are currently in deep financial trouble in Jacksonville. Nobody is rooting for the Jags to ultimately fail in Jacksonville, but if they do Orlando should be ready to pounce.

Weaver's scenario is a first step: The NFL goes to an 18-game format with the Jags playing a package of regular-season and preseason games in Orlando. The Jags get to tap into the Orlando market; we get a taste of the NFL. How cool would it be to go see the Jags- Dolphins in Orlando? Or Jags- Bucs? Or Jags-anybody? It's the NFL, for crying out loud.
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It's a legit scenario if the Jags' attendance keeps being subpar and we can get a new stadium or renovate the Citrus Bowl.
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I do like the idea of an 18-game schedule.

Two preseason games, and then 18 regular season ones.
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it would be nice but I highly doubt they would even consider preseason games at the citrus bowl. The place is a flat out dump and having gone to a few games there a 100 million dollar renovation isn't gonna bring that building up to nfl standards let alone bcs standards. It's kind of sad that if we had a halfway decent football stadium we would be without a doubt in the bcs bowl rotation, they've been dying to add Orlando to the rotation but the citrus bowl is that s**tty.
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Not in the Citrus Bowl. Rebuild the Citrus Bowl (not the $175-million lipstick-on-a-pig renovation being planned), and we'll talk.
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