Fans and businesses near Everbank Stadium celebrated the 41-7 win over the Titans to secure the Jaguars a home playoff game.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 More than 66,000 fans filled Everbank Stadium to cheer the Jaguars to a division title in near sell-out fashion.<\/p>\n
As fans poured out of the stadium following a 41-7 win over the Tennessee Titans, there was no shortage of Duuuuuvalll yells.<\/p>\n
The other words thrown around a lot, were Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
Many fans are as confident in this team as they’ve ever been, including one familiar face who stood by the Big Cats through the lean season last year all the way to a much happier regular season finish this time.<\/p>\n
“We had a lot of doubters about the small market and all that, but it’s our time,” said Uncle Bubba, a Jaguars tailgater.<\/p>\n
For decades, Uncle Bubba and company have been a weekly fixture at Jaguars home games, tailgating right outside of Gate 1.<\/p>\n
While he’s with the Jags no matter what, the tailgates are certainly a bit more fun when the team pulls off a division title.<\/p>\n
“It’s just building, man, it took us a minute, but we’re here,” said Uncle Bubba. “That’s all that matters. Let’s see where we go. I think we’re going all the way this year.”<\/p>\n
Uncle Bubba wasn’t the only one cooking up a storm during the game \u2014 as good Jags football means good business for Paddle Pub & Grub, just outside the stadium.<\/p>\n
“We did 125 pizzas today and probably 85 or 90 hot dogs,” said Paddle Pub & Grub Owner Chance Gerisch.”We were all cheering in here the whole game, it was awesome.”<\/p>\n
Fans filled Paddle Pub & Grub after the win over the Titans to keep an eye on the afternoon slate of games to determine what team the Jags would face next.<\/p>\n
Gerisch said it didn’t matter what timeslot the Jaguars wound up with in the Wild Card game. Regardless, he’d be open with the pizza ovens on.<\/p>\n
“Now we’re really excited, we get a home playoff game,” said Gerisch. “It’s the perfect thing for us.”<\/p>\n
After such a decisive win, Uncle Bubba didn’t have an opponent preference either.<\/p>\n
“One thing about when you’re winning, you don’t care who it is. We don’t fear nobody,” said Uncle Bubba.<\/p>\n
The afternoon games ultimately decided that the Jaguars will play the Buffalo Bills on Sunday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
While the Jags have a Round 1 game at home, if another win takes them on the road, Gerisch says Paddle Pub & Grub will have a watch party for any fans who can’t make the trek.<\/p>\n
Uncle Bubba has a little bit of work to do to prepare for next week, after his tailgating TV went out.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to get rid of that one and get another one,” said Uncle Bubba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans and businesses near Everbank Stadium celebrated the 41-7 win over the Titans to secure the Jaguars a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":493472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-493471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115841052420635152","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}