


Wow, the NFL is beginning to hit an all time low. The Jaguars were on Monday night again. Also by chance against a really bad underachieving Chargers team. Which how the fuck did these Sybil like Dolphins lose to them? (Stay on task, kick the dead horse Jags some more.) Yes I know my as shitty Dolphins were on MNF twice this season. However, the Dolphins do have a little bit more seniority over you douche bags. If you say you are a "lifelong" (come on 16 seasons is not lifelong. They can barely drive on their own at 16!) Jags fan and actually have some knowledge of your franchise then that's Kool & the Gang. But at some point in your football viewing time, you were loyal to another team. And I bet you were a Dolphins fan.
How this paper mill/incredibly bad tasting beer brewery, Brunswick Stew of a town landed not only this franchise, but a Super Bowl too, is as gross as fucking your sister! Since your owner put a franchise in too small of a viewing area, my town became a secondary viewing market for this bullshit. This means unless there is an impending threat of nuclear war, the Jaguars' road games will get priority over all! Fuck! Thanks! And thanks for the extortion I have to pay Direct TV to get around the iron viewing curtain you have imposed on us! I would compare this act of fascism to something similar an undersized Bavarian guy did to a country known for really bad Polish jokes. "Hallo! Ve are your new landlords!" STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP! But last week, November 28, 2011 is a day I will forever cherish. It will mark the beginning of the end. I like to call it VJ Day. Victory over Jacksonville. For that was the day Dick Dastardly and Mutley became liberators to Dolphin fans in Central Florida!
In a previous blog, I lulled you to a good night's rest about how Jacksonville became the colostomy bag of the NFL. I titled it
The Perfect Storm.
http://ronnmexicoshow.blogspot.com/2009/12/perfect-storm.html I love how Wayne (lame duck owner) stuck to his guns and staunchly swore he would never sell the franchise! How he begged to have seats tarpped. This way he could make sellouts because his stadium was too big and his followers too small. Yes this indeed is the Old Mother Hubbard of franchises. His army of followers deserting him, Wayne goes down into the bunker with Eva errr Mrs. Weaver and contemplates the inevitable. A move to Argentina. NEIN! A complete surrender to our Liberators. I think his meeting with Khan went something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54 So as I learn more info on Dick Dastardly (Khan). He currently resides in Urbana, Illinois. Which is 3 hours east of St. Louis, Missouri. Now Missouri has two NFL franchises. The Chiefs and the vagabond Rams. These same Rams were for sale recently and were almost bought by Khan. Are you connecting the dots yet Jacksonville? It's very close proximity to his empire! Now it's no secret Los Angeles wants a team. However it's a complete Jerry Springer show when it comes to settling on a location for a stadium. St. Louis seems to average about 20 years with football teams. The football Cardinals were there 21 years. The Rams have been there for 16. About as "lifelong" as the Jags. But the warranty is about to expire if they continue their losing ways. And if St. Louis finds better things to do with it's city's money. At least according to this article I found on this St. Louis Public Radio site. You know it has to be true when it delivered with the dyness of Public Radio!
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/la-stadium-moves-forward-possible-implications-rams. I also heard a report on NFL Network it would cost the Jags 50 million to get out of their contract. Any iniquitous politician worth his eye teeth will jump at the chance for that cash to let this dead zone of a franchise go. And after the discount rate Khan probably got the JV Jags for, 50 million should develop some new trailer parks for Duval County.
L.A. is a town accustomed to divorces and break ups. And the Rams coming back to L.A. would make a great Hollywood story. Read my Lifetime movie of the week version here, simply titled,
The Battle for Los Angeles.
http://ronnmexicoshow.blogspot.com/2009/10/battle-for-los-angeles.html St. Louis is the rest stop for NFL franchises. Let's face it, the Cardinals baseball team rules that town. It doesn't matter who is playing football. It's just something to fill the void between baseball seasons.
So my ghoulish curiosity, the same curiosity I have for tabloids at the checkout counters, forced me to watch the Chargers/Jaguars game last night. It's three hours I will never get back. I tune in right at the end of
Monday Night Countdown. The talking heads are split 50/50 for this game. I guess I was drunk off the moonshine I recently brought home, but I picked this JV squad to win too. It wound up costing me the football pool to an 8 year old. Seriously! But my reasoning for picking them was this. Usually when a coach gets fired, players know it is audition time. And they play out of their fucking minds. Plus the Chargers past performances had been anything but electrifying. I assumed they would continue on this glorious path of self destruction.
So the game starts. Gone are the days of the Bocephus intro. Instead I was shown a montage of Jaguar "greats." Tony Boselli, Fred Taylor, Mark Brunell and Jimmy I wasn't on
NYPD Blue Smith. Ok they are trying to show they did have some decent players at one time. However it opens to a high angel shot of Ever Bank Stadium. What sticks out are the several sections of tarpped seats. Which probably makes the fans feel right at home. Considering most of the trailers they came out of to see tonight's game have tarps on their roofs. Jacksonville, how do you still have to have some local company buy the remaining seats to ensure a sell out when you have like 10,000 plus seats already covered? What is more astonishing are the announcers saying that there hasn't been a black out this season. How the fuck is that possible? When every home game this season has been blacked out on Direct TV? Bragging about a team's sell out streak with tarpped seats is like boasting you bowled a 300 with the bumpers on the gutter!
The spin on Jacksonville continues. They show Gabbert warming up. He looks like a runner up in a Kid Rock look alike contest, or the guy that scores weed for Skynard when they are in town. They mention Brad Meester and how he has played 173 straight games for the Jags. That man deserves a Medal of Honor for that shit. I heard Wayne Weaver gave him a gift card to Shoe Bazzar as a token of his appreciation.
Ever notice on MNF (Monday Night Football) when they come back from commercial they will mention points of interest a city is know for? Well Jacksonville is known for another close by city's attraction. That's right, and alligator farm in nearby St. Augustine. Also Jacksonville has a blue bridge and an oddly shaped building that is lit green. I think this is their Empire State Building and Brooklyn Bridge. MNF also shows a montage of post card pics of the said building and bridge. After that wore off it was tits and ass of the Jagettes or what ever the fuck they are called.
So by 12:04 of the 3rd quarter this game is out of reach. The Jacksonville faithful have jumped off this sinking trash barge of a franchise for dry land. Most of them had to be up early to go to work at the paper mill to assemble boxes. Or they had to get a jump on their meth routes. The early departures work in the new owners favor for relocation. There is some truth in the 1989 classic
Major League. I'm sure there is a clause that if attendance drops, which it will in 2012, there is an out of some sort for that team to leave because it can't draw fans. Sort of like the plot in that film. So I would expect to see Jacksonville make some bold moves by signing castoffs, underachievers and deceased players to ensure that drop off in attendance.
Like baseball when there is a lull in the action which is most of the game, announcers have to make small talk. Producers in trucks direct cameramen to find ANYTHING interesting in the crowd. What caught my attention was this unoriginal asshole wearing a fireman's hat decorated in Jags colors. Didn't some douche bag in NY do this already? Thankfully spelling was cut from the Duval school system. So we'll be spared chants of J! A! G! S! MNF's announcers also made mention of how depleted the Jags were of talent. All they have is Maurice Jones-Drew. He is the league leader in rushing. He is like the modern day O.J. And ironically wears #32. Hopefully the frustrations of this franchise do not take it's toll and make him take up beheading as a hobby. Or tossing the keys to his teal Ford Bronco to Jimmy Smith for a low speed chase across I 10.
Now the final nail in the coffin to me was when the broadcast ended.
Sportscenter talked about anything but the Monday night game for about 15 minutes. A Denver Broncos rookie linebacker's broken thumb was a bigger topic than this game. Then it dawned on me. Stu Scott and Trent Dilfer are doing the show from the studios in Connecticut. Not from the side lines of the Gator Bowl. And Steve Young said fuck this noise and took a sick day. Damn Jacksonville you were not worth the per diem and airfare for these guys!
I'm telling you Jacksonville, the Mayflower vans are on the horizon. And Khan mentioned the discount code "Irsay" and got a deal on the move. My advice to you is treat this franchise like a house you can't afford the mortgage on. Stop paying and just walk away.