Tom Coughlin was Jacksonville's head coach for its first eight seasons

Jacksonville's 62 points and 55-point margin are the second most ever in NFL playoff history, and Fred Taylor's 90-yard run in the first quarter is the longest ever in an NFL playoff game.

The first settler at the site was Richard Williams who erected a cabin as early as 1826, several years before the town was laid out, with the first house erected after Jacksonville's platting belonging to William Guilliams.

Hilty, together with Ray McCarthy, Maurice Cherry and W. C. Ivey put up $ 10, 000 to underwrite the first game, which was held at Jacksonville's football stadium, Fairfield Stadium, on January 1, 1946.

With Jacksonville's rebuilt Jacksonville Municipal Stadium still under construction, this traditional neutral-site showdown was held on the universities ' campuses for the first time in over sixty years in 1994 and 1995.

WXAO Incorporated was Jacksonville's first 24-hour station but never generated a large viewership.

Later that year, Harte-Hanks Communications bought the station and began producing the market's first hour-long evening newscast, branded as Action News ; channel 12 began producing Jacksonville's first midday newscast at noon soon afterwards.

Jacksonville's first football venue was built in 1927 and 1928 with a seating capacity of 7, 600.

In 1994 they were bought by the owners of Skate World, one of whom was Bob Sabourin, who had been the coach of Jacksonville's first professional hockey team, the Jacksonville Rockets.

Henry John Klutho was Jacksonville's most influential architect during the first years of the twentieth century and its leading proponent of the Prairie School.

On Jacksonville's ensuing possession, Jimmy Smith's 19-yard reception gave his team a first down for the first time in the game and moved the ball to the Patriots 44-yard line.

The NASL incarnation of the club was Jacksonville's first professional soccer team, and the first major league-level sport franchise ever based in the city.

It was the first television station in Southwest Florida and is currently the fifth-oldest surviving station in the state ( behind Miami's WTVJ, Jacksonville's WJXT, Orlando's WKMG-TV, and West Palm Beach's WPTV-TV ).

Paxon Field was Jacksonville's first airfield, with the exception of the beaches.

They faced some competition from another local hockey team, the Jacksonville Bullets, but were able to secure a lease to the Jacksonville Coliseum, and became Jacksonville's only professional hockey team when the Bullets folded in 1996.

Almost as soon as the celebration surrounding Jacksonville's new NFL team died down, however, a renovation contractor's plan to give eight percent of the stadium work to minority-owned businesses drew criticism.

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

EverBank Field is located in Jacksonville's Eastside neighborhood, which has been home to football fields since the early 20th century.

This was largely because the Jacksonville area had been under Republican influence for some time ( the city has only voted for the Democratic presidential nominee once since 1972 even though Democrats still have a substantial majority in registration ) and most of Jacksonville's blacks had been drawn into the majority-black 3rd District after the 1990 census.

The Better Jacksonville Plan, promoted as a blueprint for Jacksonville's future and approved by Jacksonville voters in 2000, authorized a half-penny sales tax.

As such they are not part of the City of Jacksonville, but receive county-level services from Jacksonville, and vote for Jacksonville's mayor and City Council.

To counter the Citrus Bowl's larger monetary offer, Jacksonville mayor Ed Austin proposed a $ 255 million renovation plan to Jacksonville's aging Gator Bowl Stadium, which had been built in 1949.

With WTEV obtaining the CBS affiliation, the situation resulted in two broadcasting companies controlling each of Jacksonville's Big Four network affiliates ( Gannett Company owns both ABC affiliate WJXX and NBC affiliate WTLV ), as well as making Jacksonville one of the only United States television markets with all six major broadcast networks ( ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and at the time, UPN and The WB ) having affiliations with only five stations in a six station-market ( which remains true in the present day with UPN and WB successors The CW and MyNetworkTV ) and one of the few where an analog-era VHF station has no network affiliation while all the other stations in the market do.

The university was founded in 1969 after one thousand acres ( 4 km² ) midway between downtown Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Beaches were set aside for the campus, of which were donated by Jacksonville's Skinner family.

Terry Alexander, the most successful coach in Jacksonville's baseball history with 631 wins, enters his 31st year at Jacksonville and his 20th year as the program ’ s head coach.

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 made " The Jacksonville Story " known from coast to coast, and so was Jacksonville's mayor.

They played alternately at the Jacksonville Coliseum and Skate World, a skating rink on Jacksonville's Southside.

Crime rate drop in Jacksonville's Eastside-In late 2009, Jacksonville Sheriff ’ s Office Officer Stephen Gallagher announced at a community meeting on the Eastside that violent crime in the area was down 34 percent and property crime was down 32 percent from 2008.

: This historical overview of Springfield is adapted from Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage: Landmarks for the Future, Wayne W. Wood, 1989, Jacksonville, Florida.

Burke is a former officer for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Florida who would become an amateur boxer in Jacksonville's Club 5 and Club Plush where he claims to have had a 98 – 1 win / loss record.

While Planetfest takes place in the fall at Jacksonville's Metropolitan Park, Mutha Shuckin ' Birthday took place in the spring at the Jacksonville Expo Center Fairgrounds.

Jacksonville's 1996 season was a marked success as they won six of their last seven games of the season and finished with a record of 9 – 7.

With a football-hungry population, Jacksonville's civic leaders craved something more than just two games a year for their large stadium.

Known as Fairfield Stadium, its primary purpose was to serve as home field for Jacksonville's three new high schools — Lee, Jackson and Landon.

In two preseason games, Hoag caught five passes for 98 yards, including a 53-yard reception in Jacksonville's preseason opener against the Miami Dolphins.

While at one point WJXX was slated to be an independent, Allbritton had signed an LMA in 1996 with Brunswick, Georgia-based WBSG-TV ( channel 21 ); it also signed a long-term groupwide affiliation deal with ABC, and announced that WBSG would replace WJKS ( channel 17 ) as Jacksonville's ABC affiliate.

On Jacksonville's next drive, Brady lost a fumble while being tackled by Robinson, and lineman Jason Fisk recovered the ball at the Jaguars 35-yard line.

The moniker has diminished over the years as increased growth on Jacksonville's Southside area, as well as at the beaches and in St. Johns County has transformed the road into a major commuter route.

Jacksonville's Gator Bowl Stadium in 1961.

Supporters of Jacksonville's bid included NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, President Neil Austrian, Vice President Roger Goodell, Bud Adams of the Houston Oilers, Rankin Smith of the Atlanta Falcons and Ken Hofmann of the Seattle Seahawks.

In the 1910s, New York – based filmmakers were attracted to Jacksonville's warm climate, exotic locations, excellent rail access, and cheap labor.

News of Jacksonville's consolidation from The Florida Times-Union.

The name " Orange Park " is additionally applied to a wider area of northern Clay County outside the town limits, covering such communities as Fleming Island, Lakeside, and Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, making it one of Jacksonville's most populous suburbs.

Jacksonville's population is spread out with 18. 9 % under the age of 18, 4. 3 % from 18 to 24, 20. 1 % from 25 to 44, 32. 0 % from 45 to 64, and 24. 7 % who were 65 years of age or older.

Jacksonville's per capita income is $ 28, 152.

The Gator Bowl is one of Jacksonville's annual sports highlights.

Broward was approached by a prominent member of Jacksonville's Cuban community about shipping a load of munitions and some Cuban expatriates from Nassau to Cuba.

There are 18 bus bays in this station as it is Jacksonville's major bus transit transfer point.