Jaguars To Post Weekly Updates About Ticket Sales On Web Site

Fans Can Use Web Site To Track Jaguars' Ticket Sales Progress

The Jaguars beginning Friday plan to "release weekly updates about the progress of ticket sales" on their Web site, according to Michael Wright of the FLORIDA TIMES-UNION. Jaguars Senior VP/Business Development Tim Connolly said that Owner Wayne Weaver "sent a directive to team employees to disclose the status of ongoing ticket sales." Connolly: "It is unprecedented. I don't know if any of the 100-plus major-league franchises have ever done anything like this. Wayne said, 'It's their team, so let's tell them where we all stand.'" Wright notes the team is "aware that its latest move could come with criticism from national pundits," but the "transparency regarding ticket sales might also serve as a wakeup call for fans by disclosing the reality of the situation." The Jaguars have "26,000 season tickets up for renewal and need to sell 50,957 seats for home games to fill up the general bowl" at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium for the NFL to "declare a sellout, preventing local television blackouts." In a "little more than a month so far, the Jaguars matched their total number of new season ticket sales from all" of '09, which was approximately 3,000. The team "sent out season ticket renewal packages last Thursday and Friday and remains hopeful it can reach its goal of zero blackouts this upcoming season" (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 2/12).