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Post by mikecubs on Jun 9, 2014 11:39:23 GMT -6
Jaguars to have poolside cabanas
Jacksonville Jaguars fans will be able to watch a game this season while sitting in a pool inside the stadium. The team has taken out 9,500 seats in the north end zone and is replacing them with a two-level party deck that includes two pools and 16 cabanas complete with plush furniture. Companies or fans can rent one of the four poolside cabanas on the first level for $12,500 a game, or $250 per person. The package includes 50 tickets and is all-you-can-eat and drink. Wine and beer will be served through the third quarter, as is the case with the rest of the stadium. A similar package of 20 tickets on the upper level of the party deck, which does not include pool access, costs $3,000 a game, or $150 per person. Chad Johnson, the team's senior vice president of sales, said the team has sold 65 percent of the in-stadium cabanas for the 2014 season. "We're targeting businesses who want to entertain some of their clients or even their own employees," Johnson said. "What we've built here you can't get anywhere else." The party deck is part of a $63 million renovation to the Jaguars' EverBank Field that will include the world's largest HD LED video screens, new seats on the field and tables in the club sections. "We wanted to take areas in our stadium that were underperforming and get creative," Johnson said. "It's no secret that we've had tarps on seats, so we wanted to turn that around and build premium areas." Aside from having just 11 wins in the past three seasons, Johnson said the team is challenged by the fact that Jacksonville has the second-highest population turnover of an NFL city after Washington, D.C. That means doing things that no other NFL team does. Starting this season, the Jaguars will be showing a constant stream of the NFL Red Zone feed in the four displays in the end zones so fans can watch the Jaguars while keeping up with the rest of the league or tracking their fantasy team. espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11055495/jacksonville-jaguars-poolside-cabanas-stadium
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jun 9, 2014 18:04:31 GMT -6
why not, nobody gives a crap haha....what a mistake giving a club to jacksonville was.
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Post by mikecubs on Jun 9, 2014 20:34:43 GMT -6
Ya, too bad they have a lease until 2030:( I like the pool idea. Anything is better than empty seats.
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jun 10, 2014 13:16:27 GMT -6
Ya, too bad they have a lease until 2030:( I like the pool idea. Anything is better than empty seats. cut out half the stadium and build a water park. I realy dont know what the nfl was thinking. that stadium isnt nice enough to last until 2030 either. The nfl could have expanded to Baltimore, Held off a few years to cover for LA leaving, covered for houston. just jumped the gun, should have waited it out and hit their markets well. could have waited given modell the new expansion franchise in agreement to not leave cleveland (modell was a bastard though and wanted to prove to cleveland the browns werent theirs nor paul browns) instead they jumped the gun expanded 2 teams too quick.
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Post by wolfmannick on Jun 10, 2014 13:51:24 GMT -6
^ Sounds like a certian hockey league we all know of
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Post by mikecubs on Jun 10, 2014 16:57:19 GMT -6
Ya, too bad they have a lease until 2030:( I like the pool idea. Anything is better than empty seats. cut out half the stadium and build a water park. I realy dont know what the nfl was thinking. that stadium isnt nice enough to last until 2030 either. The nfl could have expanded to Baltimore, Held off a few years to cover for LA leaving, covered for houston. just jumped the gun, should have waited it out and hit their markets well. could have waited given modell the new expansion franchise in agreement to not leave cleveland (modell was a bastard though and wanted to prove to cleveland the browns werent theirs nor paul browns) instead they jumped the gun expanded 2 teams too quick. LOL. A lot of people don't know this but Jacksonville's stadium actually has parts of the old Gator bowl built into the upper deck. So it's not a new 1995 stadium like a lot of stadium web sites list. I do think it will last until 2030. I bet come 2030 it will be in a lot better shape than the Oakland Coliseum and whatever they call the pit in San Diego these day currently are. NFL should have never left the old Jaguars own Wayne Weaver to sign a lease extension. They should have told him the day it runs out the team is gone.
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Post by mikecubs on Jun 10, 2014 17:21:29 GMT -6
^ Sounds like a certian hockey league we all know of I think what the NFL did in Jacksonville is worst. Here is why. The team doesn't lose tons of $$$ because of the national TV deal like the Thrashers did and Phoenix/Florida does. But at least there was a logic going to those places. They had/have a ton of demographic potential. If it would have worked look at what it would have done for the NHL. The would get the big TV deal. Jacksonville on the other hand is 1.5M people and growing very slowly. What was the upside or logic of putting the team there? It's not like the networks were going to say oh my god you don't have the Jacksonville market covered so were not going to give you as big a tv deal. Jacksonville is more comparable to putting NBA teams in Memphis and New Orleans. What are the purpose of those teams??
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jun 10, 2014 20:51:42 GMT -6
^ Sounds like a certian hockey league we all know of I think what the NFL did in Jacksonville is worst. Here is why. The team doesn't lose tons of $$$ because of the national TV deal like the Thrashers did and Phoenix/Florida does. But at least there was a logic going to those places. They had/have a ton of demographic potential. If it would have worked look at what it would have done for the NHL. The would get the big TV deal. Jacksonville on the other hand is 1.5M people and growing very slowly. What was the upside or logic of putting the team there? It's not like the networks were going to say oh my god you don't have the Jacksonville market covered so were not going to give you as big a tv deal. Jacksonville is more comparable to putting NBA teams in Memphis and New Orleans. What are the purpose of those teams?? Jacksonville had large projected growth in the 90s...it was considered the last big area for migration to florida...and it just never happened. If they were to predict a growth sport correctly south texas would have been the place to go. What makes it so bad is balitmore was pushing for expansion, LA was looking like it was going to lose all its teams that year, Houston was threatening to relocate. and for some reason the NFL decided to expand in such a time of turmoil. So dumb. nfl would have been fine at 28-29 and would have had 3 to 4 franchises to be able to hand out in wake of coming relocations. They also could have used that to appease the owners looking to get out of town. Instead of expanding to jacksonville, Grant baltimore expansion to model, instead of expanding to houston grant expansion to Nashville and give the team to bud adams. counting carolina that would put the leage at 31 teams...you hold that number and expand in LA or south texas depending on a future relocation. What a dumb league....expand 2 teams facing 4 relocations On the NBA nba went to new orleans because of sexual assault allegations agaisnt hornets owner, The city agreed to build a new arena and they still let them go...hence the bobcats (now hornets) Memphis...just stupidity. should have stuck it out in vancouver.
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Post by mikecubs on Jun 10, 2014 21:24:31 GMT -6
Wow, I didn't know at one point Jacksonville was fast growth. When I did my demographic stuff it was only for recently.
Most of your ideas are good except NFL needed to leave Houston for a while. At the time they weren't going to build a stadium. I just wish they left the Oilers name/history behind. Some case with Cleveland. Actually Baltimore is technically an expansion team because they left the Browns name/history behind so it all worked out there in the end.
I know why NBA moved to New Orleans. Shinn was a creap. But the NBA should have found a way to block it. Shinn should have been forced out under the morals clause. If they couldn't do that they should have left him rot in the old arena in Charlotte until he sold.
There is 0 chance they could have stuck it out in Vancouver. They added the NBA a minimum of 30 years too soon to Vancouver. The population base was WAY too small(and still is) for 2 full time teams plus the dollar was in the crapper. It's telling that the current Canucks owner still doesn't want NBA yet. I think when Vancouver/Abbotsford area gets over 3M in the 2020's you can think about realistically trying it again. NBA shouldn't have expanded to Vancouver or Memphis and gone with 1 less team. I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the 2020's when leases expire for New Orleans/Memphis if one of them goes to Vancouver. Both Memphis and New Orleans are small crime filled dumps.
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Post by Sam on Jun 11, 2014 12:23:17 GMT -6
Sounds like a pretty good idea, but a good idea for a team that's doing well. People will wanna go watch a successful team while getting leathered in a swimming pool. That whole scenario screams 'awesome'.
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Post by wolfmannick on Jun 11, 2014 12:38:28 GMT -6
There is 0 chance they could have stuck it out in Vancouver. They added the NBA a minimum of 30 years too soon to Vancouver. The population base was WAY too small(and still is) for 2 full time teams plus the dollar was in the crapper. It's telling that the current Canucks owner still doesn't want NBA yet. I think when Vancouver/Abbotsford area gets over 3M in the 2020's you can think about realistically trying it again. NBA shouldn't have expanded to Vancouver or Memphis and gone with 1 less team. I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the 2020's when leases expire for New Orleans/Memphis if one of them goes to Vancouver. Both Memphis and New Orleans are small crime filled dumps. With the preseason games in Vancouver and Montreal, makes me wonder if the NBA is looking to put a team in another Canadian market.
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Post by mikecubs on Jun 11, 2014 20:42:12 GMT -6
^^^ Not at this point but maybe someday in a decade to 2 for Vancouver. Right now the preseason games are about getting a 1 time a year decent gate and selling some NBA jerseys. NBA is very pro foreign. Vancouver could get a look sometime in the 2020's either by moving New Orleans/Memphis when leases run out in 2024/2027 or an expansion team. If Milwaukee actually does get a new arena and NBA expands only by one to Seattle at some point I bet they will want to even it out. Vancouver is growing 400,000ish at this point every 10 years and most of those new people are Asian immigrants. At some point I have a feeling that will catch both the NBAs and the Canuck owners attention. Probably when gain they another half million you can start realistically thinking of it.
Montreal doesn't have enough foreigners(rich Asians) to support a team EVER. Unless they start uploading entire Chinese villages forget it. White Canadians+NBA= a horrible mix. If Montreal gets another team it will be a return of the Expos NOT NBA. NBA would get totally crushed by the habs. When they had the last preseason game they had people in the concourses that worked for the Habs owner asking if they would buy NBA tickets full time. The survey was never released but I'm certain it was horrific. If it was decent they would have thrown their hat in the ring by now with all the talk of expansion.
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jun 12, 2014 15:48:38 GMT -6
it would depend on if bell and molson want a guaranteed 40 night and can eat the losses
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Post by Bruinsfan on Jun 12, 2014 20:08:48 GMT -6
Canada seems to be very resistant to its basketball prowess. Its like canadians think they are cheating on hockey...but basketball is clearly becoming bigger in canad, just look at the amount of decent players coming out of the country
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Post by mikecubs on Jun 12, 2014 20:39:47 GMT -6
it would depend on if bell and molson want a guaranteed 40 night and can eat the losses They wouldn't. The losses would be massive. Especially the 1st time one of the black NBA superstars leaves because the locals are speaking a funny language. Bell Centre is one of the busiest arenas in North America. Concerts bring in big $$$. They are NOT going to waste/fill 41 dates on something only a bunch of poor Hatians would find permanent interest in. Bottom line is not many rich Asians=no chance.
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