The Dean Posted August 22, 2009 Posted August 22, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonville Jacksonville is already the larget city in Florida & the 13th largest in the US. There should be no excuses to fill that stadium. Could you imagine what their attendence would be if they missed the playoffs for a decade? That team is a joke. It's only the largest because they count the entire county in the Metro count. Miami is much bigger in actual city size. I go there frequently and find it to be just a big spread out suburb without much of a center city identity. With the big hispanic population, it would be a good soccer city, but most of the folks care more about college football. To set the record straight on this, J-ville is very large in land mass, but not necessarily in population. As has been noted, Duval county is, essentially, the City of Jacksonville. While most cities have suburbs that are independent (Amherst is a suburb of Buffalo, for example) most of the suburbs around Jacksonville are actually part of the city of Jacksonville. I believe LA and LA County are similar. As far as selling out the game is concerned, population is the metric that is important. Not land mass. With all that said, J-Vills is a crappy NFL market.
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