Destiny: The Insider's Story of How Jacksonville won the Jaguars
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- Explosive negotiations and a town considered too small for an NFL team. But a sleepy city in Northeast Florida was awarded one of those coveted franchises. Underdog Jacksonville somehow managed to pull off the surprise of the sports world, landing the NFL’s 30th franchise to become home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Destiny: The Insider’s Story of How Jacksonville Won the Jaguars, revealed behind-the-scenes suspense and how the Jacksonville Jaguars nearly weren’t. “This story was bigger than sports and football,” said WJXT Vice-President and General Manager, Bob Ellis. “It’s about tenacity and the drive to never give up. It‘s about economic impact for future generations in North Florida. Jacksonville, no question, was the underdog but some local big dreamers refused to back down and in the process changed the NFL and Jacksonville’s history.” WJXT crews spent a year traveling the country to document the 15 year odyssey of unfulfilled hope, hearing from visionaries sharing never before heard stories and anecdotes of behind the scenes work to make a little big town’s dreams come true, despite the overwhelming odds against them.
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My grandmother started the Putnam County Jaguars Booster club in '93! All of Northeast Florida came together to get this team!
She and everyone else involved in bringing us the jags are Duval heroes!
Putnam hall
Crack circle
I think another big reason, Jacksonville got a team was because of the USFL and the Jacksonville Bulls. The support that team got in their 1984 home opener was phenomenal. 73,000 plus to watch spring football. Jacksonville also led the league in attendance the 2 years they existed. I knew at that moment Jacksonville was special.
Yes ! Jacksonville was no stranger to football or the nfl. The NFL even played games in the gator bowl back in the day. We also got teased by several franchises to relocate because they knew we wanted a team BAD.
DON’T EVER delete this....PLEASE!
Can't believe this is the first time I've come across this. I remember how excited the nine year old me was when I heard the news we were getting a team. I was too young to understand the logistics and everything going on behind the scenes but it's sad to see that the city council is just as petty short sited today as they were back then. It's a shame because this city has so much unrealized potential.
I'm glad that my town has a team and we're back to being good again
That didn't age well sadly
lol spoke too soon
You got a panthers blanket
maybe next year but this year is a learning experience for the new guys and our coach
What position do you play on the team?
Would’ve never happened without the Weavers
I was stationed in Jacksonville in the Early-90's and remember the effort to bring the Jags to the city, went to a couple of rallies
#phinsup
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That was one of the happiest days of my life! I remember it vividly.....
Gainesville born die hard Gator fan here... watched the Jags growing up.
thanks for uploading
Loving this Story...and Love my Jags! Duuuuuuuuuval....See us this Season 2023/4!! Always THE JAGS🔥🔥🔥
thank u for posting.
So long before Orlando and now Atlanta, Jacksonville was the _original_ Hollywood of the South?!
Then again, “Hooray For Jacksonville” wouldn’t make any sense, so it was off to California.
“Joy for Jacksonville”
There you go
Who watched the whole video?
EDIT I DID
I f***ing hate the nfl, Jacksonville before Orlando what was the nfl thinking
This brings back alot of good memories
I'm watching this on November 30th!!
I watched this tonight just to show my Eagles fan wife how the Jaguars came to be. Good luck against the Pats!
Eagles?!!! Lol Go Giants
That pick for an expansion team should have gone to Baltimore, but the then NFL commissioner for whatever reason was bent on not awarding Baltimore anything. Told them to basically focus their efforts on building a museum or something to that effect.
Moreso Jack Kent Cooke, owner of Name Redacted, wasn’t ever gonna let a team in Baltimore unless it was by relocation.
If that happened I wonder if the Browns would’ve gone to Houston in 1997 to replace the Oilers and LA got the 32nd expansion team.
Idk what the reason for not wanting Baltimore was, but the success of the CFL's Baltimore Stallions 100% changed their minds on Baltimore.
@@DoNotPassGO Yeah, you really can’t argue with that. Shame that they didn’t find a way to support both the Ravens and the Stallions. It seemed like the Stallions had quite a bit of support.
Never thought Jacksonville would get a pro team at that time in 1993 when they could have given one to Tennessee, Baltimore, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Portland to name a few.
Or L A
Been with Jacksonville from day one! being one of the only fans from Colorado at that time. It's been great its been rough.
Ppl diss Jacksonville lol but its a beautiful city on the water with so much to offer. Most ppl diss it never been to Florida
They should of added a team to Orlando not Jacksonville
I used to live there. It kinda sucks.
14:03 22:25 Wowza, those shots are a blast from the past! It's hardly recognizable today as all of that in the shot has been ripped down and rebuilt. The Coliseum got imploded and replaced with the Veterans Memorial Arena and the old baseball field got demolished and built new from the ground up. Plus the roads around it have been redone as well. Also none of those buildings on the left exist anymore. AND Daily's Place Amphitheater was just recently added to the south end of the Stadium as well as a new indoor practice field.
This is my FAV TEAM
Fantastic! Go Jags!!
Great video. Been in Jax about year now and it's nice to come across this and see how Jax won a team.
Welcome to Duuuval!!!
@@joshuahobbs8255 it should of been Orlando
@@geleneceline2310 they didn't even put in a bid.. it was city's like Memphis,
St. Louis Charlotte & Jacksonville
@@joshuahobbs8255 i know that but the city tried to get a team in some other bids
Love my Jags
City Councilwomen "Denise Lee" deserves a lot of the credit for getting the Jacksonville city council to vote for getting the team.
Amazing. Born and Raised. Duval will always prevail 🐆🐆🐆🐆
Man watching this brings back so many memories to that day in 1993. I had just turn 7 a month earlier. This was the biggest news EVER to me. Now I'm 35 and watching this for the 100th time and it breaks my heart to see how much Jacksonville fought for this team and to see the state that the franchise is in now. Man, I hope better days are in store for my hometown Jaguars.
How is this not a major motion picture
Is the full video of James Earl Jones anywhere? I've been looking for it. If you have it send it here pls!
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Is it just me or is Jacksonville run by a bunch of Georgia looking good ole boys.
Dumbass comment
Anybody who knows the us knows that northern Florida shares essentially the same culture as Mississippi, Bama and Georgia
Atlanta and Jacksonville fans could change houses for 5 years and probably not tell that much of a difference
And now they are the Black Sheep of the NFL. Every sports league in the 90s were so excited about the prospect of expanding into Florida, but now you have the Panthers, Rays, and Jags at the top of teams most likely to move
11:55 I didn’t know Ray Finkle’s mom was a part owner of the Jaguars.
Laces out!
Now if we could play like a nfl team and not an Elementary School team will be good
I'm listening to this as I'm watching Jacksonville beat the Colts 24-0. Lawrence had 250 yards. They are 1-1 on the season.
WJZ-TV 13 from my hometown Baltimore,MD at 31:29 The second time the NFL shafted my hometown. Thank goodness we got the Ravens and Two Super Bowls to boot!!!!!
how did they decide which conference each team would be in ?
Good question!!!!! But the Panthers trademarks seemed so sinister, more NFC type!!!!!
Just moved here and I like this team
Glad to have ypur fandom, lets she if Khan and the team can fix Tom Coughlin's disaster
@@joshuahobbs8255 this aged well
Jacksonville was getting their football team regardless other cities had better packages then Jacksonville for some reason the NFL wanted to be in Jacksonville
Jaguars Rule!
Nope
Jimmy smith the legend
I lived in Jax in '95. I remember what a big deal it was to get an NFL team. I think they've had like 2 winning seasons since then 🤔
They were one of the best teams up until 2012 I believe.
What 😂😂😂😂 we’ve had only two winning seasons the past ten years. But the first 15 years the jags was good
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Means the most to any city ever
Packers mean way more to Green Bay than the Jags ever will to Jacksonville
lol not even close@@PocketC00KIE
Mr. Weaver didn't have to sale the team.
Matt Cooper *sell
Not only movies, but jazz/blue's was very popular. Jacksonville has always been disrespected! Smh
Hell yea Go Jags
You called Jacksonville SLEEPY
Duval till I fucking DIE
I got one thing to say Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuval
Jeb bush?
Since 1993 ... I'm D U V A L till the Day I Die Baby !!!!
#JAGSNATIONRISEUP🏈
Remember Jaguar Cars sued them for their original leaping logo
That's true I remember that!!!! But the good thing was that they came up with a better logo and uniforms!!!!
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My brother rocked their first T-shirt ever with that leaping Jaguars logo here in Pittsburgh lol everyone hated him
@@hugh2hoob668 I remember that just like yesterday, they were about to have gray as part of their color scheme!!!! Thank goodness they switched to black!!!!!!
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Yep it was a grey long sleeve shirt
@@nickj3513 both are nice to me
Is Jacksonville biggest city in Florida
Land mass its the biggest city in the U.S., Population goes to Miami
@@joshuahobbs8255 and then its Orlando and tampa bay why the heck didn't they add a Orlando team
@@geleneceline2310 because Florida doesn’t need 4 teams and to be frank they don’t even deserve 3 teams. Jags should and probably will move.
@@renlysotherlover294 it isn't because of that its because jacksonville is not a sports city the nfl saw how many people show up to gator games and added the jags
@@renlysotherlover294 the jags should move to orlando or go to the uk
Baltimore should have gotten the expansion team
Good thing they didn't, they would've missed out on Ozzie Newsome and you already know what he created
11/30/17
#DUUUUUUVAL
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22:40 LMAO. Totally unethical...but hey it worked.
Seems a shame watching this that the team will be relocating to London in 4 years. I've always been a fan of Gridiron but was never really attached to a team until Jacksonville began to call the UK its second home. Finally, we in Britain had a team what was kind of our own at the highest level we could get behind rather than simply picking a team based on its colours and cool names like we used to have to in this country 😂.
After watching this and really thinking about it, I wouldn't be upset the Jags were to cancel their move here. Hopefully their attendance rates improve so the city can keep its beloved team.
Shitpant is a good name for you bud
@@smartmaxwell9017 thank you sir.
We aren’t moving, who told you that?
Not going anywhere. Duval till we die
Really doesn’t make sense why they have a team to be honest
Its not up to you
and the next video reads...."How the Jaguars won Nick Foles"
Better title would be how Nick Foles robbed and ruined the Jaguars
equating the NFL to the US Presidency and space travel is just about the stupidest thing i've seen on the internet in a long, long time.
ngl Jacksonville smells like ass but still my team and the closest city to me.
No a cindarella story is winning a superbowl, do that then you've arrived
with the trash that has been the Jags you think they have buyers remorse?
And the Titans have owned them since day 1.
Hopefully they move to San Antonio
GTFO!!!!
The Raiders and Chargers were up for grabs for San Antonio if they wanted them, so San Antonio must not really want a team
Fuck off
San Antonio would be a great city for Football, much more than Jacksonville. But Jerry Jones will need to be 6ft under before another team moves to Texas
How do you know that ass wype?
Biggest mistake in expansion history. Franchise has only been good a hand full of times. And can’t sell tickets.
Why do you think the nfl is trying bring the jags over here in the UK, we dont want em
Screw the UK dont like us then🖕 you Jags will stay in Jax. don't care if you like it or not keep crying we've been drinking hater tears for almost 30 years , All you Jag haters can drink piss
Cry more
Move them to st louis
@itzamia lol
Fuck off LOSER!!!
If the nfl decides to expand to 40 teams im sure St. Louis will be 1 of the teams