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Press Pass | Grand Staircase Unveiling & Stadium of the Future Updates · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: We can begin demolition of the existing pedestrian ramps on
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  Speaker 1: the west side of the stadium. So those of you
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  Speaker 1: that have fallen in love with walking up those ramps
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  Speaker 1: when you go from ground level to the upper deck,
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  Speaker 1: this might be the last chance you have to say goodbye,
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  Speaker 1: so don't miss the opportunity. You know, we're making progress,
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  Speaker 1: there's no question about that, but we're still in the
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  Speaker 1: infant stages of construction. To put it in perspective, As
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  Speaker 1: of now, we've completed approximately five percent of the work
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  Speaker 1: necessary to complete the project, So a lot of activity,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work going on, but we're in essence,
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  Speaker 1: just getting started. But we are still on track for
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  Speaker 1: in August twenty twenty eight opening. As a reminder, we
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  Speaker 1: will continue to play here at EverBank Stadium at full
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  Speaker 1: capacity for the remainder of the twenty twenty five season.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty sixth season will also be played here in Jacksonville,
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  Speaker 1: but at a reduced capacity of approximately forty three five
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  Speaker 1: hundred seats, and our twenty twenty eight home schedule we
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  Speaker 1: played in either Gainesville or Orlando. Hopefully we'll have resolution
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  Speaker 1: on that in the not too distant future. During the
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  Speaker 1: entire construction period. The football team and the football staff
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  Speaker 1: will continue to be based in the Miller Electric Center.
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  Speaker 1: Next February, the Jaguars business and administrative staff will move
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  Speaker 1: out of our current location in the stadium into the
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  Speaker 1: new office building across a lot J next to the
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  Speaker 1: new Four Seasons Hotel. So if you look to your left,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that is the Four Seasons Hotel, and I'll let
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  Speaker 1: others give updates on that as appropriate, but you can
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of the.
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  Speaker 2: Framing work is already begun.
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  Speaker 1: There's windows being installed, and next to that the office
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  Speaker 1: building that is completely enclosed, and we expect to be
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  Speaker 1: moving in there next February.
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  Speaker 2: So so far, so good.
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  Speaker 1: This remains an extremely complex project with unforeseen conditions presenting
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  Speaker 1: themselves on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: But thanks to the.
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  Speaker 1: Experience and professionalism of our design and construction team many
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  Speaker 1: of the leaders are here today and in particular the
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  Speaker 1: skilled construction labor force working on this project, we continue
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  Speaker 1: to move.
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  Speaker 2: Forward as scheduled.
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  Speaker 1: We also have representatives from many leading Jacksonville companies that
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  Speaker 1: are working on this project. Like I said, we're so
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  Speaker 1: early in this project, but one of the goals.
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  Speaker 2: Was to keep as much work as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Local focuses focus on those small and emerging businesses, many
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  Speaker 1: of them part of the Jacksonville JASEB program. And again,
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  Speaker 1: while it's really early, of those JSB qualified projects.
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  Speaker 2: Over twenty eight percent of that work has gone.
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  Speaker 1: To a local j subcontractor and that has not happened
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  Speaker 1: by accident. It's been a real focus from our construction
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  Speaker 1: team and hopefully we can continue to make a significant progress. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: this would not be possible without the support and commitment
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  Speaker 1: of our partner, the City of Jacksonville. In addition to
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  Speaker 1: the elected officials who have joined us today, it is
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  Speaker 1: my pleasure to introduce the Mayor of the City of Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Mark. It's an exciting day here
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  Speaker 3: in Jacksonville. This Mark's a well many steps forward for
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  Speaker 3: the Jaguar Stadium of the future, but also for our
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  Speaker 3: entire city. Isn't this a grand staircase? I mean it
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  Speaker 3: really is. It is a grand staircase. I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to walking up all sixty six steps of it shortly.
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  Speaker 3: The grand staircase one is impressive, but it's more than
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  Speaker 3: a staircase. It represents another rendering becoming a reality in
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  Speaker 3: our city. It is the first portion of the Stadium
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  Speaker 3: of the Future that fans will be able to use
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  Speaker 3: during our next home game. So it's really exciting progress.
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  Speaker 3: Our city has real momentum, and nothing shows it more
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  Speaker 3: than the many cranes in the air. Mark's already talked
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  Speaker 3: about some of them. Just over a year ago we
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  Speaker 3: approved this Stadium of the future, and here we are
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  Speaker 3: today about to cut the ribbon on the first part
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  Speaker 3: of it. Love to see everything moving forward. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: get enough attention, and Mark mentioned it briefly that so
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  Speaker 3: many of the folks working on this stadium are from
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  Speaker 3: right here in our community, from local apprenticeships to Jacksonville
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  Speaker 3: small and emerging businesses, and we're very proud of that.
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  Speaker 3: A total of nearly eighteen thousand full and part time
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  Speaker 3: jobs will be created by this stadium investment, and that
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  Speaker 3: is big for our local economy, so we thank you
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  Speaker 3: for that, not to mention a generation of two point
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  Speaker 3: point four billion dollars in economic impact for construction and
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  Speaker 3: a total of twenty six billion over the thirty year lease.
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  Speaker 3: I could not be prouder of those facts and the
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  Speaker 3: significant return on investment we are going to see from
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  Speaker 3: this stadium for Jacksonville's taxpayers. I'm also proud of how
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  Speaker 3: the Community Benefits Agreement or CBA, is coming together, thanks
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  Speaker 3: in part to the efforts of councilmen Arias and Paluso.
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  Speaker 3: The next CBA Committee meeting will take place on October fifteenth,
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  Speaker 3: and we are all looking forward to seeing what comes
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  Speaker 3: out of that. There's plenty of other progress happening right
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  Speaker 3: here in the Sports and Entertainment District and in the
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  Speaker 3: surrounding areas, including downtown. Of course, just look around and
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  Speaker 3: you'll see construction everywhere, cranes in the air all over
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  Speaker 3: the place, rehabilitation or innovation such as the Four Seasons Rise,
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  Speaker 3: Duro Metropolitan Park, and the Shipyards, Riverfront Plaza and Pearl Square,
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  Speaker 3: which of course we now know is going to include
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  Speaker 3: a Publix, which will be huge for downtown. That's just
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  Speaker 3: to name a few of the projects that are underway.
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  Speaker 3: So back to the reason now that we are here today,
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  Speaker 3: the Jacksonville Jaguars. The team's next home game mark's only
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  Speaker 3: not the first time the Grand Staircase One will be open,
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  Speaker 3: but also to the team's first Monday night football game
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  Speaker 3: since twenty thirteen. So that's gonna be great. So we're
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  Speaker 3: all very excited about that, and I would love for
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  Speaker 3: everyone in dou all to step up and support the
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars by wearing teal on Monday. We've sort of gotten
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  Speaker 3: in the habit at City Hall because you know, victory
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  Speaker 3: Monday's been a thing. So we've gotten in the habit
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  Speaker 3: at City Hall of wearing our teal for victory Monday.
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  Speaker 3: So let's go ahead and celebrate early for Monday Night
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  Speaker 3: football and have everybody dress up on Monday and your teal.
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  Speaker 3: Let's show the Kansas City Chiefs and the world our
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  Speaker 3: Jaguars pride by wearing teal. And to that end, I
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  Speaker 3: am officially proclaiming Monday, October sixth as turn up in
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  Speaker 3: Teal Day in Jacksonville. So Tony please join me up
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  Speaker 3: here to accept a proclamation on behalf of the team
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  Speaker 3: that we are officially proclaiming Monday, turn up in til
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  Speaker 3: day in Jacksonville. You all better be in your teal.
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  Speaker 4: First, let me say thank you Mary Digan for your
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  Speaker 4: leadership at the city, not just with this project but
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  Speaker 4: everything going on in the city. I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: testament to your mayorship and what you've done and your
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  Speaker 4: whole staff and our city council really appreciate the leadership
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  Speaker 4: because being here for over thirty years now seeing the
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  Speaker 4: growth of our city and becoming what it can be
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  Speaker 4: and what it should be is pretty excited to me. Also,
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  Speaker 4: it's always a it's a dream come true to have
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  Speaker 4: this job, and a lot of it's to have a
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  Speaker 4: partner in Mark Lamping and the business staff and the
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  Speaker 4: team we have here with the Jacksonville Jaguars, so we
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  Speaker 4: are excited about where we're going. Mark said something about
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  Speaker 4: I think five percent of the way here and the
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  Speaker 4: construction we are at the beginning stages, as well as
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  Speaker 4: building this football team and what type of football team
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  Speaker 4: we're going to be. And myself, Liam Cohen and James
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  Speaker 4: Gladstone have the honor given to us by SHOD to
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  Speaker 4: come in to build an organization and build a football
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  Speaker 4: organization that this community can be proud of what we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna do. It means something to be a Jaguar. To
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  Speaker 4: be a Jaguar as a privilege, you are invited to
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  Speaker 4: be a part of our organization and there's a standard
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  Speaker 4: that everyone has to meet and to be partnered with
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  Speaker 4: James and Lamb to be able to do that is
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  Speaker 4: a ton of fun. And I hope that you see
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  Speaker 4: so far what we're doing. We're at the beginning stages.
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  Speaker 4: We are just getting started. I'm glad that Mary Degan's
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  Speaker 4: been in this, everyone's been able to have victory Mondays
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  Speaker 4: and wearing teal. Hopefully there's more of those. But win
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  Speaker 4: or lose the one thing I can promise you from
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  Speaker 4: this football team. When people come play us, whether it's
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  Speaker 4: here on the road or wherever, they are going to
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  Speaker 4: feel our team. They're gonna know that they were in
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  Speaker 4: a game and we will play a style football that
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  Speaker 4: will represent this city and our fan base. And my
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  Speaker 4: challenge to all of us, because it's really important that
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  Speaker 4: when a team comes to EverBank, EverBank is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a place. When teams around the league come to
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  Speaker 4: play us, they are gonna know they're in for a fight.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna know that it's gonna be a physical contest,
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  Speaker 4: that they're gonna play a tough team that is gonna
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  Speaker 4: be known win or lose. I can't tell you NFL
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  Speaker 4: is tough games. It's hard to win games. What also
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to happen because I know this is who
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  Speaker 4: our fan base is. They should feel our fan base
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  Speaker 4: when they come to Everybakstaum. They should know when they
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  Speaker 4: come to Jacksonville, not only are gonna to deal with
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  Speaker 4: us on the field, they're gonna have to deal with
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  Speaker 4: all of Duval in this great stadium under construction, limited capacity,
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  Speaker 4: and when we're all done at full capacity, we want
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  Speaker 4: this place full of Jaguar fans in deal and we
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  Speaker 4: start Monday night. So we are excited, appreciate the support,
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  Speaker 4: excited about what we're doing here and these steps are
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  Speaker 4: just the first sign, a first image of where we're
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  Speaker 4: going as an organization, as a city. So thank you
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  Speaker 4: very much, and let's go Jags.