They put us on the map. They made us a first-tier city. They attract businesses and investment our way. Don't really care. What the Jaguars have done for Jacksonville is give us a common focal point.
Strangers talk, whether to complain about all the hoopla or to revel in it.
The Jaguars provide us with a common thread. It's only one, but such threads bind us together - rich and poor, black and white, natives and newbies. Jacksonville needed that. Some have complained about the taxpayer investment it took to get the Jaguars here. The money was well spent.