Jacksonville Jaguars

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in the city of Jacksonville, Florida. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team was founded on November 30th 1993 and began play as an expansion franchise along with Carolina Panthers, who also joined that same year.

The Jaguars are owned by Shahid Khan, who purchased them from Wayne Weaver and his ownership group for $770 million in 2011—the highest amount ever paid for an NFL franchise at that time. Since their inception, they have played home games at TIAA Bank Field located within EverBank Field complex near downtown Jacksonville; however due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions during 2020 season all home games were played without fans present in attendance which had significant financial impact on the organization.[1]

Throughout its history Jackonsville has been successful making seven playoff appearances including four AFC Championship Games between 1996–2017 culminating with 2017 appearance where they lost 45–42 against New England Patriots led by Tom Brady.[2] In 2019 after years of mediocrity under head coach Doug Marrone it seemed like Jags could be ready to turn things around when rookie quarterback Gardner Minshew II took over starting duties but eventually finished 6–10 missing playoffs once again.[3] Looking into 2021 off-season there is much optimism surrounding this young core and if given proper resources new general manager Trent Baalke can help rebuild Jags back into contender status sooner rather than later[4].