Since 1933, Jacksonville has been the site of the annual Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, a major college football rivalry game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and since 1946, the city has hosted the Gator Bowl, one of the oldest annual college football bowl games.

The city hosted the American Football League All Star Game in 1967 and 1968, but after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, Jacksonville was shut out.

The WFL also arguably had an impact on locations of other professional football teams: from the NFL, Hawaii hosted the Pro Bowl from 1980 through 2009, Jacksonville got the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, Charlotte received the Carolina Panthers in the same year, and Houston's expansion franchise, the Texans, revived the name of the WFL team in 2002.

That stadium hosted the game through 1993, when it was almost completely demolished for the construction of Jacksonville Municipal Stadium ( now EverBank Field ) on the same site.

Jacksonville also hosted the first and only WHA2 All-Star Game.

The team plans to play at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, which previously hosted the 2011 LFL US Conference Playoffs.

It also hosted the Florida – Georgia game, an annual college football rivalry game between the University of Florida and the University of Georgia, and was home to several professional sports teams, including the Jacksonville Sharks of the World Football League ( WFL ), the Jacksonville Tea Men soccer team, and the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League.

Jacksonville's very own American National Rugby League team the Jacksonville Axemen hosted the teams as part of the Australia Day festivities.

In 2009 and 2010 the United States hosted other emerging North American teams in the Rugby League Atlantic Cup at Hodges Stadium at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

Because of the limited fan capacity of Fleming Field and the relative inaccessibility of Gainesville in the early 20th Century, some Gators home games were hosted in Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Tampa, and even the Madison Square Garden corporation's former winter sports facility in Miami.

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The venue hosted the 1998 and 1999 Atlantic Sun Conference Baseball Tournaments, won by Florida International and Jacksonville, respectively.

In the first game of the regular season, the Panthers hosted fellow 1995 expansion team Jacksonville, but fell behind 17 – 0 in the third quarter.

Then, in the 1980s, the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League took the field.

Sipe was traded to the Jacksonville Bulls days later.

The five other teams are the Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League, and the Jacksonville Bulls and New Jersey Generals of the defunct United States Football League.

** Andy Hendel-linebacker with Jacksonville Bulls and Miami Dolphins

He also played for the Jacksonville Bulls and the Tampa Bay Bandits in the USFL, where he was a teammate with future WCW rival Ron Simmons.

Despite Flutie's inexperience, the Generals traded Sipe to the Jacksonville Bulls to ensure Flutie would start.

The Jacksonville Bulls had Archie Griffin and Mike Rozier.

* Jacksonville Bulls, a defunct American football team

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The Jacksonville Bulls were a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida.

The nickname " Bulls " was taken from team owner Fred " Bubba " Bullard, a Jacksonville businessman, although there was a ' name the team ' promotion with a write-in campaign for publicity purposes.

Many experts believe that had it not been for the Bulls ' success, the NFL would have never considered awarding the Jacksonville Jaguars to the city in 1995.

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

Spedding also knew that the Gold could not hope to compete with the Broncos ; shortly after the 1985 season, he cut a deal to merge the Gold with the Jacksonville Bulls.

It was the home of a North American Soccer League team, the Jacksonville Tea Men from 1981 to 1982 and then a United States Football League team, the Jacksonville Bulls from 1984 to 1985.

Originally silver in color, the bridge was painted maroon in 1984 in celebration of Jacksonville's United States Football League franchise, the Jacksonville Bulls.

He served one season in the same capacity for the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL before he became the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Central Florida.

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( Coincidentally, Jacksonville was also slated to be the host of the 1986 USFL Championship Game, but that game was never played as the USFL folded ; it would not be until February 2005 that the city would host its first championship pro football game, Super Bowl XXXIX.

The team opted to go with former Jacksonville starter Matt Robinson as Walton's replacement, rather than seeking a more proven USFL QB without a home, like Craig Penrose, Alan Risher, or Mike Hohensee, or trading for someone like Oakland's Fred Besana, or even signing an NFL vet.

Fort Caroline established in present-day Jacksonville, Florida in 1564, lasted only a year before being destroyed by the Spanish from St. Augustine.

However, the development of suburbs and a subsequent wave of middle class " white flight " left Jacksonville with a much poorer population than before.

The SF & W ’ s route was a longer one since it traveled through Jesup, Screven, and Waycross before cutting over southwest to Folkston to travel on to Jacksonville.

Gallatin's most famous past resident was the singer-songwriter, Johnny Horton, who graduated from the high school at Gallatin before going on to college in Jacksonville, Texas, at Lon Morris College.

A planned alternative to the Richmond-Wilmington leg of the journey hews closer to the coast, passing through Virginia Beach in the Tidewater region of Virginia and continuing on through the Elizabeth City, Greenville, New Bern and Jacksonville in North Carolina before rejoining the main line near the mouth of the Cape Fear River at Wilmington.

* Green Cove Lions – Evidently formerly the Jacksonville Stallions, they folded in 2007 before ever playing a home game.

* Jacksonville Stallions – folded before playing a game, and evidently became the Green Cove Lions.

The play sealed the Tigers ' 17 – 15 win over the Buckeyes and Hayes was fired the next day before leaving Jacksonville.

Finally, between Macon and Jacksonville, Florida, the west route went south to Tallahassee, Florida before turning east, while the east route had yet to be defined in detail.

They won the North Division Championship versus the Carolina Mudcats before losing the league championship to the Jacksonville Suns, one game to three.

With a new defensive coordinator in Eric Mangini and no named offensive coordinator, the Patriots went 10 – 6 in 2005 and defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Wild Card round before losing to the Denver Broncos in the divisional round.

The squadron then moved to Brunswick Naval Air Station, where it remained until late 2009 before coming full-circle back to Jacksonville, Florida.

McDougall began the study of law in Albany before moving westward, settled in Pike County, Illinois in 1838, married the daughter of a leading Jacksonville attorney, and joined the Democratic Party.

In, he signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, compiling a record of 6 – 3 with a 3. 18 ERA in 16 starts for the Jacksonville Suns before being promoted to the Las Vegas 51s.

The center moved offshore between Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida, before moving back onshore near Savannah, Georgia on August 29 without any increase in intensity.

Until 2009, intermediate training for land-based aircraft typically sent student NFOs to Randolph AFB in San Antonio, TX for joint training with the 12th Flying Training Wing ( 12 FTW ) before being sent to Patrol Squadron THIRTY ( VP-30 ) at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, the Fleet Replacement Squadron for the P-3 Orion and the EP-3E Aries, or the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron SEVEN ( VQ-7 ), the FRS for the E-6 Mercury TACAMO aircraft at Naval Air Facility Tinker / Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.

* Shortly before the 2004 election, Palast also obtained a caging list for Jacksonville, Florida, which contained a high number of African Americans and registered Democrats.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Haydon Burns ' family moved to Jacksonville in 1922, where he attended Andrew Jackson High School before going on to attend Babson College in Massachusetts.

Kirk worked as an insurance salesman and sold building supplies before partnering with W. Ashley Verlander in 1956 to start the American Heritage Life Insurance Company in Jacksonville, Florida.

Deal served only 21 years before being released and deported to his native Jacksonville, Florida, where he died a few years later.

He became the fifth player to re-sign with Jacksonville before retiring, joining Tony Boselli, Fred Taylor, Paul Spicer and Donovin Darius.

The now famous U. S. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, who had called NAS Jacksonville home but later moved to NAS Corpus Christi in the late 1940s, performed a last air show at the station on April 29, 1950, before forming the nucleus of an operational fighter squadron, VF-191 ( Satan ’ s Kittens ), which was assigned to combat in Korea.

Born in Houston, Texas, Neal, after high school, studied at Lon Morris college in Jacksonville, Texas, before moving on to acting and directing studies at the University of Texas at Austin.