The Jacksonville Barracudas won the WHA2's first and only President's Cup.

The Jacksonville Barracudas were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Jacksonville, Florida.

It held no playoffs at the end of the season ; the ascendant Barracudas were declared league champions, bringing Jacksonville its only professional hockey championship.

In 2004 a group of Jacksonville investors organized to purchase the Barracudas from Waronker and join the newly formed SPHL.

The Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena was home to the Jacksonville Barracudas ice hockey franchise until the end of the 2006 – 07 season, when they were relocated to a smaller hockey arena in the area.

In 2007 the Columbus team won the SPHL Commissioner's Cup as the team with the best season record, but was ousted in the first round of playoffs by the Jacksonville Barracudas, who won three games to the Cottonmouths ' one victory.

The first two games of the best-of-five final series were won by Fayetteville on the FireAntz ' home ice, before the series returned to Jacksonville, Florida, where the Jacksonville Barracudas won Game 3 of the series by a 3-2 score.

The team finished sixth out of eight teams in the regular season in 2004 – 05 and lost a one-game playoff to the Jacksonville Barracudas.

The championship, Best-of-Five, series started on April 10 with Knoxville coming out on top of the Jacksonville Barracudas 6-2.

They never returned ; in 2002 a new team, the Jacksonville Barracudas, began play in the Coliseum and secured a contract for the new Arena, completed in 2003.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

According to TVS president Eddie Einhorn, the games actually got decent ratings at first, but affiliates started bailing out after the Philadelphia and Jacksonville free-ticket scandals, a trickle that became a flood after two teams moved in the middle of the season and two more folded altogether.

In 1969, the New York Mets moved their Triple-A International League affiliate, then known as the Jacksonville Suns, from Jacksonville, Florida to Portsmouth.

Jacksonville served as the county seat for Calhoun County until 1899 when it moved to Anniston.

Earl moved to Jacksonville, FL and became a successful land speculator.

In 1891 the family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, which had a thriving, well-established African-American community.

The Jacksonville hurricane warning office moved to Miami, Florida in 1943.

Shortly after he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Hindman moved with his family to Jacksonville, Alabama and later Ripley, Mississippi.

The elder Hindman frequently made business trips to Alabama, and even moved the family to Jacksonville, Alabama after buying several lots of land there.

The band, initially based in Jacksonville, moved to Atlanta hoping to get a break in the industry.

Following the Cuban Revolution in 1959 the team relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey, but soon folded ; the franchise was bought by the Cleveland Indians, who moved it to Jacksonville as the Jacksonville Suns in 1962.

They began the season in the old Jacksonville Coliseum, and moved to the new Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena when it was completed.

The Allman Brothers Band, founded in Jacksonville, Florida, moved to Macon at the urging of their manager, Phil Walden, who had previously managed Otis Redding.

Borland moved to Jacksonville, Florida with his parents, where he began attending art school ( Douglas Anderson School of the Arts ) due to his disinterest in the local music scene.

In 1898 the family briefly moved to Knoxville, Tennessee but within the year returned to Florida to settle in Jacksonville.

In 1944, the brothers adopted Winn-Lovett as the company name and moved the company headquarters to Jacksonville.

Adam and Andy were replaced when Ryan Key and Dan McLintock both moved from Jacksonville, Florida to audition for the band and were both hired.

First played in 1950 in Jacksonville, Florida, the game moved to Mobile's Ladd Peebles Stadium the next year.

He moved to Jacksonville and died in 1926.

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In 1987, the Houston Oilers nearly moved to Jacksonville, at least in part due to the overwhelming support for the Bulls.

This qualified them for the 2007 playoffs, where they defeated the Columbus Cottonmouths 3-1 in the semi-final series, vaulting Jacksonville into the SPHL Finals for their first time.

The SPHL had three teams in Jacksonville, Florida, Orlando, Florida, and Macon, Georgia, and promised more expansion teams were waiting to be announced until the sixth team came aboard.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

On October 26, 1993, the league announced that the owners had unanimously voted for the Carolinas to receive the 29th franchise, the first new NFL team since 1976 ( Jacksonville was named the 30th team a month later ).

The guests in attendance included Aaron's first manager with the Braves, Charlie Grimm, his teammate from Jacksonville, Felix Mantilla, Eau Claire president Ron Berganson, and Del Crandall, the catcher for the 1957 world champion Braves and the-then manager of the Brewers.

Jacksonville mayor Tommy Hazouri offered Adams a city-backed guarantee that the " Jacksonville Oilers " would sell out every game in the 82, 000 seat Gator Bowl for the first ten years.

announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists, along with Charlotte, St. Louis, Baltimore and Memphis.

Jacksonville was considered the least likely expansion candidates, for several reasons.

Encouraged by Tagliabue, Jacksonville interests revisited the issue, and the city agreed to fund $ 121 million in renovations for the Gator Bowl including sky boxes and club seats.

All three men would go on to be Super Bowl-winning head coaches, but not for Jacksonville.

At the end of his tenure, he took out a full page ad in the Florida Times Union thanking the city of Jacksonville for " eight great seasons ".

Taylor, who is considered to be one of the greatest Jaguars in the history of the franchise, rushed for over 10, 000 yards during his tenure with Jacksonville and earned one trip to the Pro Bowl.

While attendance figures were stagnant for most of the NFL, Jacksonville saw an increase of 36. 5 %, by far the highest in the league, and had none of their home games blacked out.

Jacksonville last wore white at home for early season games in 2007.

Jacksonville most recently wore white in their 2011 regular season game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and for the 2011 regular season home opener wore all white against the Tennessee Titans.

In addition of performing at games and pep rallies, members function as goodwill ambassadors of the team, participating in corporate, community and charitable events in the Jacksonville metropolitan area where they sign autographs and pose for pictures.

The blue jersey and white pants combo has been worn for only one regular season game, the 2005 season opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the white jersey and blue pants combination has not been worn regularly since late in the 2002 season, with the exception of late in the 2009 season.

Currently, Belichick is head coach of the New England Patriots, while Coughlin went from Boston College to be the first-ever head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and is currently the head coach of the Giants.

Jacksonville led 14 – 10 at halftime, but the Titans then scored 23 unanswered points on 2 touchdown runs by McNair, a safety, and Derrick Mason's 80-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

" Ted went to Jacksonville for a course in aerial gunnery, the combat pilot's payoff test, and broke all the records in reflexes, coordination, and visual-reaction time.

* February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.

He was stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, serving as safety officer and quality control officer for Heavy Photographic Squadron 62 ( VAP-62 ) flying the A3D-2P ( later RA-3B ) Skywarrior.

On 20 April 1564, it became the port of departure for the French expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière to the New World where he created the first French colony at Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.

Clay County is also a popular choice of residence for military personnel who are stationed on bases in nearby Duval County ( NAS Jacksonville, NS Mayport ).

As he waited in Jacksonville, Florida for passage to Cuba, he met Cora Taylor, the madam of a brothel, with whom he would have a lasting relationship.

The area of the modern city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years.