since people are talking about the jacksonville jaguars, one of the speculative sports conspiracy theories I believe is that Jacksonville only got an expansion team because the NFL owners were too dumb to understand the difference between municipal and metro area populations.

It& #39;s too embarrassing for them to admit now that they fucked up by giving a team to a market smaller than Providence, RI so it just kinda persists despite being arguably the worst media market/franchise combination in American sports.

None of this is meant as offense to the good people of Jacksonville, FL but tbh even they seem sort of bemused by the Jaguars& #39; continued presence there