Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1.How badly have Jacksonville Jaguars ticket sales dropped?

They lost 17,000 season ticket-holders after last season. Most blame the sluggish economy. Wayne Weaver said “We have got a higher mountain to climb because we're a small market and we've got a big stadium," We don't have 75 years of history like the Steelers or the Green Bay Packers. We're a growing community. We just have to have patience."

2.Were there any managerial layoffs due to the low-ticket sales?

Weaver fired his executive director of ticket sales and marketing and his director of marketing just before the season, making employees below them more accountable for day-to-day operations.

3.Will Wayne Weaver expand Jaguar games to Orlando to increase ticket sales?

Possibly, in an effort to expand the Jaguars fan base, owner Wayne Weaver said the team might start playing regular season games in Orlando if the league expands the regular season to 17 or 18 games. He doesn’t expect the league to increase the number of regular season games before 2012 and he said Orlando would have to renovate the Citrus Bowl or build a new stadium to make the plan feasible.

4.Are the Jaguars in danger of having every home game blacked out?

Unless there’s a dramatic surge in ticket sales, the league's 72-hour-in-advance, sellout policy will prevent those games from being televised in the North Florida/South Georgia market.

5.Will the Jaguars move to the new stadium in LA?

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill on Oct. 22 that effectively approved construction on a new football stadium in Los Angeles. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is looking at a team in a tiny market like Jacksonville that won't sell out a single home game this year on one coast, and he’s looking at an unserved market with 17 million people on the other coast. However, Jacksonville has one of the toughest leases to break in the NFL. The team can only break its lease if it loses money for three consecutive seasons or if a judge determines that the city has not properly maintained Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.

6.What are the Jaguars plans for the future of the team?

Due to a lack of major corporations in the area and slower growth both in terms of population and income compared to other metropolitan areas in the state, the decade from 1999 to 2008 has been disappointing for the Jaguars in terms of revenue. It is hoped that a stricter emphasis on the blackout rule, along with greater success on the field, will be the solution to the problem of ticket sales.