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Originally Posted by Triple Naitch
Jacksonville is a horrible football town. When they tried to host the Super Bowl, it was a disaster. There was one hotel and 40 taxi cabs for thousands of people. It's hard to believe that Jacksonville has a team and not Los Angeles. Hell, I'd give Chicago a second team before Jacksonville a team.
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Least we not forget that Jacksonville was picked for the Expansion team over Baltimore in 1995. I even remember that the team was gonna be called the Bombers, they were so sure the NFL would pick Baltimore, but no.. Kinda funny that all 5 cities/areas in contention for Expansion in 1995 got teams eventually through relocation: St Louis got the Rams, Baltimore got the Browns and Tennessee got the Oilers (though it would have been Memphis through expansion, not Nashville), and the only city to not have an NFL team after all the dust settled was L.A.
For all the Canadians in attendance, you might remember when Baltimore was in the CFL and won the Grey Cup. The city was so pissed at the NFL and Paul Tagliabue, but the best thing they did about it was join the CFL...lol
People around here were actually surprised that Tagliabue let Model move the Browns, a lot of people felt that he had some sort of Vendetta against Baltimore.
/end history lesson