Today the Jacksonville Jaguars announced that the team will play back to back home games in London next year. Whilst this is great news for London based fans, it certainly doesn’t suit those back in Florida.
The interesting fact here is that it will be two home games. Not a home and then an away game which had widely been speculated for a number of years.
There will be a 15% discount for current Jacksonville season ticket holders, but is that a fair price cut? It is two games after all.
Of course the real issue that this brings up is the direction in which this franchise is going. We know Roger Goodell wants a London based team to leave as his legacy to the sport. Will it be the Jaguars?
In 2018 Shahid Khan (the Jaguars owner) attempted to buy Wembley Stadium. Is this all just a slowly, but surely, approach to move the team to London. Next year will it be three home games and more the following year?
I don’t think anyone would be surprised if we did end up with the London Jaguars.
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