Jaguars Owner Shahid Khan and the Jaguars Foundation have donated 500 tickets to Sunday's AFC Wild Card game against the Bills to refugees from around the world who have settled in Northeast Florida. Another 500 tickets have been donated to displaced Puerto Ricans and their families in communities throughout North and Central Florida due to Hurricane Maria. For both groups, the Jaguars Foundation will be providing courtesy transportation and a souvenir. The Jaguars have partnered with Delaware North Sportservice to give each attendee a food and beverage voucher to use during the game (Jaguars). In Jacksonville, Phillip Heilman notes to identify the individuals, the Jaguars Foundation "enlisted the support of Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida, the First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce" and Orlando-based Latino Leadership. The Jaguars will "also provide 1,500 tickets to local military members at a subsidized cost of $20 per ticket." The USO "helped the Jaguars distribute the tickets" (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 1/4).
HIGH DEMAND: In Jacksonville, Roger Bull notes tickets to the Jaguars' first home playoff game in 18 years were "at a premium." But after the Bills were announced as the Jaguars' opening-round opponent, prices "really took off." TickPick Dir of Client Relations Jack Slingland said that tickets to the game "went from $321 Sunday morning to $881 that evening." He said that the average asking price had "dropped to $602" by yesterday afternoon, and the "average purchase price has been less than that, going from $165 before Sunday's games to $398 after." Slingland added that there were a "little more than 700 tickets to the game" on their website. Bull reports on StubHub, there were 2,155 tickets available early yesterday afternoon, about 300 more than there "were on Tuesday." StubHub Communications Manager Cameron Papp said that prices "started to drop a little." The "cheapest ticket available was $230" (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 1/4).
