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Originally Posted by GoChargers
Disagreed. There were 12 teams with worse attendance than Jacksonville this year. Two of those teams (Cincinnati, Minnesota) made the playoffs. Two more (Chicago, Pittsburgh) narrowly missed out.
Last year, Cincinnati was dead last in attendance and made the playoffs. In 2008, the two Super Bowl teams (Arizona and Pittsburgh) were 24th and 28th in attendance respectively.
Ever since JerryWorld opened up, Dallas has routinely led the league in attendance. Those big crowds haven't stopped Romo and Garrett from choking.
The attendance thing with Jacksonville is overplayed. The real issue is that they drastically misjudged the market at the beginning and built an oversized stadium, hence the tarps. EverBank Field is the 27th-largest football stadium in the country, and that's counting both college and pro football. There's no reason why a market as small as Jacksonville needs a stadium that's almost as big as Dallas' and bigger than the stadiums in Denver, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, Philly, Seattle, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, etc.
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But don't tickets cost about 67 cents down there? And the stadium always seems dead.
Emotion is more than just raw numbers. You say the stadium size issue is overplayed, but it really isn't if it kills the environment. For instance, do you think a 1/2 full Jax stadium carries more energy than a capacity Steelers house?
We'll see. If he's truly a great coach, he'll overcome it. But the Jags just seem like a massive afterthought in that town. I could certainly be wrong.