If Jags move, L.A. may not be the destination

[Big Bid'Ness]

Fromrofootballtalk

For those of you who are as willing to blindly believe right now that the Jaguars won’t move as you were willing to blindly believe Wayne Weaver when he said earlier this month that he isn’t selling the team, save yourself the aggravation and scroll past this story.

For those of you who are willing to be skeptical of an industry that has generated ongoing proof of the value of skepticism, read on.

If the Jaguars move, it may not be a foregone conclusion that they move to Los Angeles. There’s a chance they’ll move to St. Louis, with the Rams returning to L.A.

As one executive with a team other than the Jaguars told PFT on Wednesday morning, “People that I trust think there is a chance [Rams owner] Stan Kroenke moves the Rams to L.A. and [Shahid] Khan moves to St. Louis.”

At this point, no one knows with certainty what will happen. But it would be foolish to rule out anything, even if folks with a vested interest in propping up ticket sales and interest in the team in Jacksonville try desperately to ignore the content of the tea leaves.

Once the minimum spending requirement per team kicks in come 2013, teams like the Jaguars won’t be able to stockpile $32.9 million in salary cap space. When that happens, there will be more incentive than ever to move NFL teams to where the money is.

Folks in the one percent didn’t get there by being too stupid to realize that.

Fromrofootballtalk

When it comes to the future of the Jaguars, believe nothing

Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver, after months if not years of flat denials that the team is for sale, is selling the team. Amazingly, as Weaver continues his months if not years of flat denials that the team won’t move from Jacksonville, people actually believe him.

The most important point emerging from Tuesday’s frenetic events and developments regarding the Jaguars is that no one should accept at face value Weaver’s denial that the team will move, because Weaver has shown that his denial of a sale can’t be taken at face value.

Just this month, the franchise issued a statement that “Wayne Weaver is not selling the team.”

The fact that the agreement to sell the team contains no clause requiring Shahid Khan to keep the team in Jacksonville confirms that a move remains on the table. It would have been easy for Weaver to make it harder for Khan to move the team. Weaver, for example, could have insisted that the agreement contain a clause requiring Khan to pay a prohibitive amount of money to Weaver if Khan were to move the team before a specific date in the future. But since such a clause surely would have reduced the purchase price paid to Weaver, Weaver likely opted not to insist on such a commitment.

Instead, the only thing keeping the team in place will be a stadium lease that runs through 2029, which can be abandoned if the team demonstrates three consecutive years of losses or proves that the city has failed to maintain the stadium. Though plenty of folks in Jacksonville understandably cling to those terms as ensuring that the team won’t leave for nearly two decades at the earliest, everything is negotiable. And since Khan won’t have to make a balloon payment of $100 million or more to Weaver if Khan leaves Jacksonville before some specific date in the future, Khan and/or the folks in L.A. who want to move a team there will be able to devote all available cash to procuring a release from the remaining terms of the lease.

Given that the Jaguars face an ongoing challenge when it comes to selling tickets, it was important for Weaver to keep his efforts to sell the team under wraps, until the team was sold. For those same reasons, Khan will have to keep any efforts to move the team under wraps, until the team is moved.

And so, just as Weaver denied that the team was for sale while he worked behind the scenes to sell it, it would be naive to assume that Khan isn’t working behind the scenes to move the team, even if he continues to deny any intention to move it.

Let the fighting begin lol.

 

[kam.]

SMH.

They're not moving.

/thread

 

[Yankees2772]

Bet they move in 5 years.

 

[kam.]

Bet they move in 5 years.

Bet they don't.

 

[TTN2810]

IDK why you are so trusting.

 

[kam.]

IDK why you are so trusting.

lolwut?

 

[jonathanlambert33]

He's asking what makes you so sure the Jags aren't leaving.

Though I'm sure you know that.

 

[kam.]

He's asking what makes you so sure the Jags aren't leaving.

Though I'm sure you know that.

Yes, I know that. Im just laughing at the fact that anybody thinks they're moving.

Why? Because PFT reported it? They also said that Wayne Weaver was talked out of drafting Tebow by the front office and Jags denied that aswell.

PFT doesn't know shit.

If Wayne turned down 800 million from people in LA to move the team.. Why would he sell it for 760 million just for that guy to move it? Wayne sold it because he wants to retire, he sold it to one of his great friends who has bought a house in Jacksonville and is committed to keeping the team in Jacksonville.

I don't see what hard for all of you idiots to see this.

 

[Rice18]

Watching ESPN today has made me lean even more to the way that they are moving..

 

[Pugz]

why must everyone always be a dumbfuck or an idiot?

 

[jonathanlambert33]

why must everyone always be a dumbfuck or an idiot?

Well...

 

[kam.]

Just smh, lol.

 

[Mexi]

 

[footballplaya52]

Watching ESPN today has made me lean even more to the way that they are moving..

believing espn is your first problem.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

believing espn is your first problem.

Watching ESPN is the first problem, actually believing them would fall in second lol