Jaguar Mania

It's Jaguar mania around here -- Last Saturday the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Pittsburgh in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs. So tonight the Jags are in Massachusetts to take on the New England Patriots in their home stadium in the second round.

And the news has been nothing but Jags, Jags, Jags all week long. Jags flags are flying in place of Gator flags. Casual Friday meant teal and black Jaguars clothing.

It's actually really neat to be in a place where everyone's interested in how the team is doing. And it's fun to be in a small enough place where the chances of seeing members of the team out and about are actually pretty high. In fact, the other night we went to the Mandarin Ale House for a co-worker's going away happy hour, and a member of the Jaguars was there. He was even autographing stuff for some of the kids there.

While a win tonight won't solve the lackluster tickets sales leading to local TV black-outs for next season, in my opinion. The inability to sell out the entire stadium isn't because of a winning or losing season, I think there are other issues, such as the economy, difficulty of getting to the stadium, prices of the tickets and the food and drink that have more of an impact on whether or not tickets are sold. But it will be very exciting indeed if the Jaguars do beat the Patriots.