Why I bought my Jaguars season tickets
The Jaguars can’t hear me screaming from my living room. But they know I’m there to support them when I am at TIAA Bank Field.
Like many, for various reasons, I have renewed my Jaguars season tickets for the 2019 season.
I love everything about attending the Jaguar games. From walking into the stadium and shopping the clearance racks at the Fanatics shops, grabbing my favorite adult beverage, and walking over to Daily’s Place to check out the pregame entertainment.
There is something about coming through the gate and hearing the drum line that just makes my soul happy. The pregame excitement for me starts on the bus from the JTB Park and Ride. Getting on the bus and knowing that I am surrounded by other fans just like me is my favorite thing to do on Sundays.
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After years of living away from home, coming home just in time for preseason in 2018. I attended every home game last year. I still see it as a privilege. Having lived in other team markets for about 15 years (when Jack Del Rio was the team’s head coach) and always being the token Jaguar fan at every sports bar, I had to go to in order to even see my Jaguars play, the camaraderie of being able to walk in the stadium with other Jaguar fans doesn’t escape me.
My mother’s name is on the Founders Wall in the stadium, she won’t give up her ticket until she physically can’t attend the games and I guarantee you I will carry her in if I need to. I don’t take this for granted like some other fans. I did give my son the initials of JAG on purpose in 1997. I have carried my love of the Jaguars all over the south as I moved and lived the adventure of my life. But now I am here, and now I am not willing to miss even one chance to be among my people at the games.
The flyovers. This is a military town and I love how the Jaguars keep that at the forefront of every game. The swimming pools are always interesting, we have the largest jumbotron, the dog park is always a good place to visit at halftime. The Bud Zone is where I always run into people I grew up with. Who doesn’t love seeing Jaguar Man, the Jaguar Suits, and the handful of die-hard fans that we know by their consistent costumes, loving their Jaguars? You get none of that in your living room.
The games. Yes, you can see better from your living room, you also get to listen to the commentary on TV of every commentator that talks about the Jaguars with pity in their voice; but you can’t impact the games. I want to give my Jaguars everything that I have when I am in those stands, good, bad or indifferent.
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I am going to get loud on 3rd down, I am going to scream, yell and share my emotions during the entire game. I am going to add energy to that field. WE are a team, and I need to do my part. Even if that means I have to deal with opposing teams fans if the players have to do it, so should we.