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re: Jeremy Pruitt’s take on The Cocktail Party being played in Jacksonville (he's not a fan)
Posted on 6/29/22 at 1:00 pm to JetDawg
Posted on 6/29/22 at 1:00 pm to JetDawg
At one time the largest UGA alum association chapter outside the state of Georgia was the Jacksonville chapter. Don't know if that's the case now, but it is something to take into consideration. Jax isn't just a Gator town by any means. Probably why the game is played there, to begin with.
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Posted on 6/29/22 at 3:17 pm to CedarChest
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At one time the largest UGA alum association chapter outside the state of Georgia was the Jacksonville chapter. Don't know if that's the case now, but it is something to take into consideration. Jax isn't just a Gator town by any means. Probably why the game is played there, to begin with.
THis is a great point that imbeciles don't understand. Imbeciles think all UGA fans live in a 20 mile radius of Atlanta or in Athens. But all up and down the Georgia coast, and all throughout S. GA, are hundreds of thousands of dawg fans for whom Jacksonville is much more convenient of a venue than Athens or Atlanta.
Posted on 6/29/22 at 5:15 pm to CedarChest
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At one time the largest UGA alum association chapter outside the state of Georgia was the Jacksonville chapter. Probably why the game is played there, to begin with.
Sounds like it was a combination of railway access and ticket revenue:
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Since 1933, all but two games in this rivalry have been played in Jacksonville.
In the early 1900s, college football stadiums weren't as massive as they are now. Georgia had a rickety old baseball field which served as the football field. Florida scheduled two or three games a year at Fairfield Stadium in Jacksonville.
Located on the railroad line, Jacksonville was a relatively easy trip for fans of both teams.
They moved that first game to Jacksonville because fans of both schools could easily get there by train, and it turned out right. The stadium was sold out that year, and kept drawing fans even as others struggled during the Great Depression.
Even as Georgia and Florida were building bigger stadiums for themselves, they saw the value in playing in a bigger city with potentially higher ticket prices.
But it's also interesting to think that maybe the UGA alumni base has a large presence in Jacksonville because it was easy to get to by rail from there (much as how people often relocate along interstate corridors today).
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