The Jacksonville Jaguars are on pace to have their season opener against the Tennessee Titans blacked out. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, despite going 10-6 last season, are still having the same old problems selling tickets, so their games are going to be blacked out this season. And now fans of the Miami Dolphins, after almost 40 years of disappointment and two decades of playing without a quarterback, are staying home, too.

The Dolphins also plan to make it clear to their fans that tickets sales for regular-season games are not going as well as the team would like and that could mean blackouts of several meaningful regular-season games are about to happen.

Several home games on the regular-season schedule — starting with the Week 2 game against Houston — are so far from being sold out that the club is warning fans the only way to see them might be to buy tickets. (Via The Miami Herald)

But wait a second guys, can’t the Dolphins at least come up with some terrible gimmick ideas to try to sell some extra tickets? You know, something that will completely backfire and piss off even their most loyal fans?

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Jacksonville Jaguars Maurice Jones Drew was one of a smattering of NFL stars that took to Twitter on Sunday to question the intestinal fortitude of Jay Cutler. For his trouble, MJD received death threats from Bears fans, to which MJD replied, “I was just playin’, yo.”

“I never attacked him, called him soft or a sore loser,” Jones-Drew in a telephone interview Monday. “I never questioned his toughness. I think people took my joke out of context. I was taking at shot at Florida fans.”[..]

Bears fans turned it on Jones-Drew, with many pointing out that he missed the final two games of the season even though the Jaguars were in the AFC postseason hunt. Others said they hope he blows out his knee this season.

Jones-Drew played all season with torn meniscus in his left knee, saying there were days when he would wake up and not be able to walk. He learned the severity of the injury during training camp — he basically had bone scraping against bone — but tried to keep it hidden because he didn’t want opponents taking shots at his knee.

–AP, via Press Coverage.

Just joking? I don’t buy that at all, but I’m in favor of whatever keeps the crazies at bay.

The speculation on Cutler’s health was fueled by the lack of any announcement of injury during the broadcast, and by the fact that Cutler was able to stand upright on the sideline while Todd Collins fluttered in the wind. Okay, so the jury’s still out on whether Cutler’s a huge p#ssy. So what? If we can jump to conclusions about whether or not an NFL star raped a woman, assaults a bouncer at a strip club, shoots his unborn child, incurs a DUI charge or severs the head of his ex-wife’s alleged lover, why are we getting all worked up over a damn knee?

Kim Nored is a 29-year-old college student living in South Florida. And she’s a big Jacksonville Jaguars fan. No, jerkwheat, “big” as in very passionate. Nored’s favorite pastime for supporting her team involves having players sign her arms, and then having those signatures permanently tattooed in place. That’s awesome.

“That is a die-hard fan if there ever was one, to get tattoos of autographs, of random players for that matter,” Jaguars kicker Josh Scobee said.

Scobee didn’t think Nored was serious when she approached him last year. She returned to training camp a few days later to show him the tattoo. She did the same with Del Rio.

“I signed a guy’s forehead once — I don’t think he made it a tattoo,” Del Rio said. “There are certain areas I won’t sign. I like to keep it G-rated.” –Fla. Times-Union.

Jag fandom seems to be picking up; the team has just sold out its fifth straight game for the weekend. I’m surprised that it hasn’t happened sooner; it looks like they have a lot of fans that need to use two seats at once.

Fans of the Indianapolis Colts don’t really like losing, or maybe it’s more fair to say that those we at KSK affectionately call The Fat Humps just aren’t used to it. But allegedly some Colts fan made a ree-verse L and flooded five floors of a Jacksonville hotel after his team had Josh Scobee’s leg thrust up their collective ass.

Our boy J Koot at Busted Coverage correctly points out that, since they have no idea who caused the flood, they can only speculate that it was a Colts fan. But really, who the hell else would be visiting Jacksonville? Maybe somebody that got lost on their quest for delicious bratwurst, and that Asian guy in the video after the jump, but anyone else? This whole thing reminds me of the end of Splash!, except for the part about the mermaid that kinda looked like a dude. Read the rest of this entry »

It will be a miracle if the Jacksonville Jaguars make this playoffs this season. So it’s not very surprising that they’ve decided to take a page out of the soccer mom playbook by making fun their top priority. And there’s nothing more fun than having rookies participate in an awkward black-guy-white-guy dance battle. Rookie linebacker and nephew of Brian Bosworth, Kyle Bosworth, is flying high and ballin’ while running back Deji Karim takes a more subtle approach with the stanky legg.

Bosworth proves once again that white men can’t dance or jump (looking at you, C Tate), but he appears to win by getting an ‘A’ for effort, not skill. Uncle Brian would have never pulled any s*it like that. He would have yelled until one of the veins in his neck popped, then peeled out in his Corvette, bikini babes draped on both arms. Video can be found here.

–via Sports Illustrated

It’s no secret that the Jacksonville Jaguars are struggling. The team has gone 12-20 in the past two seasons and hasn’t made the playoffs since 2007, but it’s troubles don’t end there. The team has recently received criticism for only opening their intra-squad scrimmage to season ticket holders, and Vic Ketchman, senior editor of Jaguars.com, explained why on the team’s website.

In the most clear way possible, Ketchman makes the case that the Jaguars have reached a crisis point, if that wasn’t already clear.

“Ticket sales, not the futures of David Garrard and Jack Del Rio, is the number one issue confronting this team, and it’s not about next year’s ticket sales or growing the fan base for 2020, it’s about selling tickets for this year. This is it,” Ketchman says.

“This is save the whale and, from my perch on the beach, the whale is struggling to live. I think everyone would do well to understand that the radical nature of this decision underscores the team’s desperation to sell tickets. The team knew this decision would be harshly criticized, yet, it went forward with it. Why do you think it did? If your answer is that we have reached the tipping point, then you are a logical person.” –PFT

That sounds like a pretty foreboding message coming from the Jags front office. But I’m still shocked. A poorly managed team in a small market isn’t making money, you say? Why, that’s impossible! Next, you’ll be telling me of flying machines, and moving pictures that dance and make noise in a box I put in my sitting room!

They should have the sad trombone play every time Ketchman speaks, and introduce him as Debbie Downer. “We lost another million because the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is destroying our state’s economy, and we couldn’t sell tickets before that, either.” He’d say, “Did I mention that David Gerrard is our quarterback, and that we drafted Matt Jones in the first round a couple years ago? Oh, and we also drafted Tyson Alualu with the 10th overall pick in this years draft, whose only value is in the hilarity of his name.” By then, Ketchman would be laughing hysterically and would have a crazy, far off look in his eye. Somewhere, Donald Trump is rubbing his hands together and laughing smugly.