The Jacksonville Jaguars is the first and only franchise of a major professional sports league Jacksonville has ever had. Despite a relatively successful history, Jacksonville appears to enjoy only a relatively tenuous hold on the Jaguars.
Specifically, Jacksonvillians have failed to adequately fill the stadium even though the Jaguars offer one of the least expensive tickets in the NFL. For a decade, numerous Jaguars home games have been blacked out on local television as a result of insufficient ticket sales. Others have been televised only after Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver purchased the remaining unsold tickets. In 2008, following one of the team's most successful seasons and in the face of the great, the Jaguars managed to sell out only one home game.
Only Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver's atypical generosity and selfless commitment to the Jacksonville community has prevented the team's relocation already.
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