Jacksonville should never have been awarded a franchise in the first place, and should consider themselves lucky they ever had a team at all.

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That is the bottom line. J’ville is not an NFL city and should have never received an expansion team. It was, without a doubt, the biggest mistake Tag made.

Unfortunately it is almost unevitable that when faced with a purely financial business decision the owner will be swayed to move the team to the city offering the best long term opportunity. The owner has no loyalty to Jax and he is going to receive some very, very tempting offers.

As you stated there are some loopholes that give the team a way out of the stadium lease and it wont be that hard to show a financial loss on paper for 3 years. Or some other loophole that just requires a little creative accounting. Stuff that is everyday stuff for a business person of Kahn’s means. Also lets face it, it wont be that hard for the ownership to show that the City of Jacksonville is not holding up their part of the deal. They are just another inept city government that has had a very adversarial relationship with the team, at times.

Kahn will probably give it a go for about 3 years in Jax to keep his word temporarily, but in the long run there will be a million excuses available for him making the move to a bigger market. The phrase “continued viability of the franchise” comes to mind. It really sucks but unfortunately that is the reality.

Jags relocation plan for 2015

Step 1 – Before the 2012 season remove the tarps on the 20K seats in the upper decks

Anyone who thinks this Shahid fellow has any interest in Jacksonville when one of the most lucrative markets is about to open up is kidding themselves. I’d be absolutely shocked if the team’s here in 10 years. Weaver plainly lied about selling the team. Because of that, there’s plenty of reason to believe he’s lying about the team staying in Jacksonville.

And even if that occurs, the exit buyout is enormous.

Not happening.

As the Art Modell Cleveland Browns and Clay Bennett Seattle Supersonics proved, you can leave the team colors, history and trophies in the city and just move the franchise and start over so Khan can leave the colors and brief history in Jacksonville but move the franchise and start over.

Someone tell me that Wayne Weaver isn’t the only rich man in town? He couldn’t find local interest to buy the team?

Watching the Mayflower vans moving out in the middle of the night still hurts many Colts fans today. You may get a lot of negative comments. but those who experienced the pain,hear you loud and clear. We love our Ravens, but still mourn how our first child was stolen by Ebaneezer Irsay.

And nothing against Jacksonville, but Baltimore had a much better plan, with much better financial backing than Jacksonsville did. But Tags and company told Baltimore to “build museums” instead.