Jacksonville Jaguars

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Jacksonville Jaguars

Current season

Established November 30, 1993; 25 years ago[1]

First season: 1995
Play in and headquartered at TIAA Bank Field
Jacksonville, Florida

Logo Wordmark

League/conference affiliations

National Football League (1995–present)

 American Football Conference (1995–present)

o AFC Central (1995–2001)

o AFC South (2002–present)

Current uniform
Team colors Black, teal, gold[2][3]

Mascot Jaxson de Ville

Personnel

Owner(s) Shahid Khan

President Mark Lamping

General manager David Caldwell

Head coach Doug Marrone

Team history

 Jacksonville Jaguars (1995–present)

Team nicknames

 Jags

Championships

League championships (0)

 Conference championships (0)

Division championships (3)

 AFC Central: 1998, 1999

 AFC South: 2017

Playoff appearances (7)

 NFL: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2017

Home fields

 TIAA Bank Field (1995–present)

The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional football franchise based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National
Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games
at TIAA Bank Field.
The Jaguars and the Carolina Panthers joined the NFL as expansion teams for the 1995 season. Since their inception, the Jaguars have
won division championships in 1998 and 1999 (as members of the now-defunct AFC Central) and 2017 (as members of the AFC South)
and have qualified for the playoffs seven times, most recently in 2017 after a ten-season playoff drought.[4]
From their inception until 2011, the Jacksonville Jaguars' majority owner was Wayne Weaver. The team was then purchased by Pakistani-
born businessman Shahid Khan for an estimated $770 million.[5][6] In 2015, Forbes estimated the team value at $1.48 billion.[7]

Contents

 1Franchise history
 2Team colors, logos, and mascot
o 2.1Logos
o 2.2Uniforms
o 2.32018–present
o 2.4Mascot
o 2.5Jacksonville Roar
 3Stadium
 4Rivals
 5Statistics and records
o 5.1Season-by-season results
 6Current roster
 7Players of note
o 7.1Retired numbers
o 7.2Pride of the Jaguars
o 7.3Florida Sports Hall of Fame
 o 7.4All-time first-round draft picks
 8Head coaches and coordinators
o 8.1Head coaches
o 8.2Offensive coordinators
o 8.3Defensive coordinators
 9Current coaching staff
 10Work in the community
 11Broadcast media
o 11.1Radio
o 11.2Television
 12See also
 13Notes and references
 14External links

Franchise history[edit]
Main article: History of the Jacksonville Jaguars

Team colors, logos, and mascot[edit]

Logos[edit]
The day after the NFL awarded the expansion team to Jacksonville, a triumphant Wayne Weaver held up the Jaguars' proposed silver
helmet and teal jersey at the NFL owners' meeting in Chicago. The team's colors were to be teal, gold, and silver with black accents.
However, this jersey and helmet design, with a gold leaping jaguar, created controversy. Ford Motor Company, then-parent of the
automaker Jaguar, believed that the Jaguars' logo bore too much resemblance to the automaker's logo. Though no lawsuit was brought to
trial, lawyers from the team and the automaker negotiated an ultimately amicable agreement whereby Jaguar would be named the official
car of the Jaguars, and the Jaguars would redesign their uniforms.
The new logo was a snarling jaguar head with a teal tongue, which Weaver said was his wife's touch. He also claimed that the teal tongue
came from "feeding Panthers to our Jaguars" — an obvious jab at their expansion brethren. During the Jaguars' first ever preseason game
teal-colored candies were handed out to all the fans who attended, turning their tongues a teal color just like on the logo. Additionally,
raspberry lollipops were handed out by the "Candy Man" in section 142 to also turn the home fans' tongues teal.
In 2009, Weaver announced that he wanted to 'clean up' the team's image. This meant the elimination of the full-body crawling Jaguar logo,
the clawing Jaguar, and the two previous wordmarks which bent the text around these logos.
In February 2013, Jaguars owner Shahid Khan, who had acquired the team in late 2011, introduced a new brand identity for the team that
included a new logo, wordmark, and secondary logo. The new Jaguar head logo was intended to be "fiercer" and more realistic.[8] The
secondary logo incorporated the new Jaguar head logo along with the first official usage of the team's popular nickname "Jags". The two
images were incased in a shield-style shape, designed to be a tribute to Jacksonville's military community.[2]
Beginning in 2013, the Jaguars began to feature gold more prominently than in the past. In fact, from 2009–12 gold had only been used in
the team logo and as a minor accent color.