Jaguars sell out Week One vs. Packers

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They’re gonna need a bigger pool.

The Jacksonville Jaguars, who have struggled at times to sell out the team’s home stadium in recent years, has sold all seats for the Week One visit from the Packers. As noted by Jaguars spokesman Tad Dickman on Twitter, the Jags are selling standing-room-only tickets for the first time since an October 5, 2014 visit from the Steelers.

Skeptics will say that the visiting team had something to do with the ticket sales for Week One. Whether or not that’s the case, the Jaguars are on the verge of becoming contenders again, and future visits from the Ravens, Raiders, Texans, Broncos, Vikings, and Titans will show whether people are buying tickets in order to support the home team.

For any Jaguars fans who want to see the team play in person before December, it would be smart to buy tickets to the three non-London home games to be played before back-to-back visits from the Broncos and Vikings on December 4 and 11, respectively. The home slate ends 13 days later with a game against the Titans.

37 responses to “Jaguars sell out Week One vs. Packers

  1. GB fans certainly had something to do with it, and the NFL scheduler was smart enough to not to send this game over to Lndon as it was likely yo sell out anyway.

  2. I’ve sold my tix to packer fans before and for at least 3x face value.

    They buy fake stock so they’ll pay anything

    I say fleece em if you can.

  3. Nothing like a story about the packers vs jags to bring out the viking fans I guess. No point getting your tix for the 12/11 game early. No one’s going to rush to to watch a team with a child beating, over the hill rb and a noodle armed qb that hasn’t won a playoff game this decade. Jags vs Vikes is about like watching Cleveland vs the Titans, except TB is no RG3, so it’ll be even more boring.

  4. I like that Vikings’ fans talk about Packers buying stock while they purchase legacy bricks with writing on them. $366.00 for 4 lines of text and the Viking logo- and they are all sold out.

  5. For some teams, like the Jaguars and Vikings, the Packer game on the regular season schedule is equivalent to the Super Bowl.

    I apologize to Jags fans for mentioning the Jaguars and Vikings in the same sentence.

  6. frank booth says:
    Aug 16, 2016 3:28 PM
    I like that Vikings’ fans talk about Packers buying stock while they purchase legacy bricks with writing on them. $366.00 for 4 lines of text and the Viking logo- and they are all sold out.

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    And I heard both bricks sold out in the first week.

  7. You think that is bad, the Patriots sell small balloons with the air deflated from Tom Bradys balls for 600$

    Packers 5
    Jags 69

    See you in the super bowl chumps

  8. Viking fans should know better than counting wins and losses in August cuz last August they were 1-0 after “beating 9ers team with one of the worst off season in decades ib week one”

    GB should win, this game in my opinion but I also think NFL kickers should make 27 yard Field goals.

    Nothing is promised good luck to Jax

  9. contra74 says:
    Aug 16, 2016 2:29 PM

    I’ve sold my tix to packer fans before and for at least 3x face value.

    They buy fake stock so they’ll pay anything

    I say fleece em if you can.
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    Maybe this year you can get 3X at the new stadium, but I’ve had no problem obtaining Bears/Vikings tix at or below face value. I highly doubt that Vikes/Packs tix were even going for 2X face value, let alone 3x.

  10. “Packer fans travel well” = biggest misconception in sports. Packer fans move from god forsaken NE Wisconsin for better jobs, better weather and activities other than cow tipping. Trust me I live in AZ. All the Packer fans down here, live here. They dont travel for the games. Have you seen the people of Manitowac Co? you think they travel the country!!??

  11. As a Packers fan I’ve traveled to the MetroDump several times and never paid more than $50 over face value for good seats.
    And I walked away every time thankful for a win and the fact that the roof didn’t collapse on me.

  12. 250dollarnflowner says:
    Aug 16, 2016 5:15 PM

    “Packer fans travel well” = biggest misconception in sports. Packer fans move from god forsaken NE Wisconsin for better jobs, better weather and activities other than cow tipping. Trust me I live in AZ. All the Packer fans down here, live here. They dont travel for the games. Have you seen the people of Manitowac Co? you think they travel the country!!??
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    You are aware, since you allegedly live in Arizona, that a lot of people come from Northern States to live there and retire. I’m sure that there are a lot more Bears’ fans living in Arizona than there are Packer fans. In fact, if you live there, you know that a lot of Chicagoans retire down there. Packer fans do travel to a lot of out-of-town games, as do Bears’ fans. The fact that some Packers’ fans live in Arizona has nothing to do with the other Packers’ fans living around the country and whether or not they travel to away games.

  13. 250dollarnflowner says:
    Aug 16, 2016 5:15 PM

    …Have you seen the people of Manitowac Co? you think they travel the country!!??

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    Maybe, but at least they can spell Manitowoc correctly.

  14. Uh, this ain’t south Florida kooks! You may look at Miami and Tampa and think that it’s the same way in NorFla, but you would be incorrect. Jax was 19th in total attendance and 1st in the state of the 3 teams and that’s losing 11 games. Can’t wait to see what the tickets will be like when we win 11. Maybe this year?

    I love that Jax is coming with some real players and competent leadership from owner down to ball boys. This franchise will inform the league of how rabid our fanbase is. Yes it’s a concentrated smaller area but it’s more than enough.

  15. No surprise here. Always among the NFL’s elite glamour teams, the 13 time world champion Green Bay Packers will always be among the hottest ticket in sports.

  16. contra74 says:
    Aug 16, 2016 2:29 PM

    I’ve sold my tix to packer fans before and for at least 3x face value.
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    I can understand why would you sell them, several of the last seasons the Vikings have been pretty hard to watch. Especially since they have only beat GB once or twice at home since 2007.

  17. So we have Viking fan (250dollarnflowner) ripping on Packer fan for living in AZ while he lives in AZ! Hmmmm! OK!
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    First, I never “ripped”. packer fan for living in AZ. I was dispelling the misconception that fans travel to the games. they don’t. When I go to the Viking games in AZ I don’t say that Viking fans travel well. I don’t blame packer fans for moving to this great state!! I’ll never go back to MN… the weather blows. Packer fans don’t travel with the team, they relocate. That’s why you see them at games in Carolina, AZ, FL, Texas, CA…. you don’t see fans at Bills games or Cleveland games!

  18. So all the Packer fans that went to the Hall of Fame game relocated to Akron OH because the weather there is so much better. Or where I live in Indianapolis is 1/3 full of Packer fans at Lucas Oil because it’s so much nicer here. I lived in NC before I moved here and wish I still lived in WI. Just face it you hate the Packers and if anything nice is said about them makes your skin crawl so you have to make stuff up to make yourself feel better.

  19. Actually, Packer fans don’t travel anywhere. Packer fans ARE everywhere. Like Steeler and Cowboy fans, Packer fans reside all over the country. The majority of Packer fans have never even been to Wisconsin. There are Packer bars in every corner of the country loaded with Packer fans that grew up and reside in those communities. Travel has nothing to do with it.

  20. So, if we’re going to say that this is only because of the Packers fans, how are we going to explain the sold out scrimmages against the Bucs this week?

    I guess it’s those legendary Tampa Bay fans who travel so well.

    Packers might win – should win. But this notion that Jacksonville has bad fans is wrong. Period. We’ve had a bad team for 15 years. The loyalty of the fans have never been an issue. The only valid criticism of Jaguars fans is that they have continued to show up year after year after year for a terribly run franchise.

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