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Jacksonville and Barracudas
The Jacksonville Barracudas won the WHA2's first and only President's Cup.
* Jacksonville Barracudas ( moved to SPHL for 2004 – 05 )
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.

Jacksonville and were
In the 2003 season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Panthers were losing 17 – 0.
First, in the 1970s, there were the Jacksonville Sharks of the World Football League.
The Jacksonville metropolitan area and television market were smaller than nearly every other city with a team.
The stadium's 10, 000 preferred seats were sold in just ten days, and Jacksonville officially returned to the bidding.
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.
Twelve cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award two Super Bowls ( XXIII and XXIV ) The bidding cities included: Anaheim, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Tempe.
At the time of contact with Europeans, all Mocama villages in present-day Jacksonville were part of the powerful chiefdom known as the Saturiwa, centered around the mouth of the St. Johns River.
Though no battles were fought in Jacksonville proper, the city changed hands several times between Union and Confederate forces.
Over the course of the decade, more than 30 silent film studios were established, earning Jacksonville the title of " Winter Film Capital of the World ".
These tropical cyclones were the costliest indirect hits to Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville Sharks and Detroit Wheels were liquidated owing nearly $ 4 million, and Detroit had 122 creditors looking to recoup losses.
However, there were franchises in several cities without NFL teams which would later receive them, such as Jacksonville, Florida.
Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant was buried at Jacksonville Memorial Gardens ( adjacent to the Orange Park Mall ) in Orange Park in 1977, but his remains were relocated to an undisclosed location after vandals broke into his tomb and the tomb of bandmate Steve Gaines on June 29, 2000.
The comparatively few residents of the area were largely cut off from Jacksonville Beach city services such as police, fire, garbage collection, and road developments, though they paid taxes in equal share.
When the gold deposits were worked out, and the railway bypassed Jacksonville in 1884, the city's economy slowed.
As transportation facilities continued to improve, all the county's small school districts were gradually absorbed into the 5 school districts that exist today: Wells, Alto, Rusk, Jacksonville, and New Summerfield.
New franchises were announced in 1993 to begin play in 1995 in Charlotte and Jacksonville.
As the 1916-1917 season approached, however, the mood towards filmmaking in Jacksonville shifted and there were many residents opposed to the industry's presence.
University of Florida officials maintain that it makes financial sense to keep the game in Jacksonville ; both universities stand to lose revenue if the game were played on a standard " home-and-away " basis.
The Bulldogs, on the other hand, still had many veteran players thanks to the draft deferments of the players who were enrolled in the University of Georgia's ROTC program, and brought a 7 – 0 record and No. 1 ranking to Jacksonville.
The first meetings were held at " Mother Sam's ", a local plantation, and in 1861 a permanent meeting hall was erected in Downtown Jacksonville at Church and Julia Streets.
From 1985 – 1990 the team was known as the Jacksonville Expos, when they were affiliated with the Montreal Expos MLB team.

Jacksonville and professional
The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida.
When new professional leagues started up to challenge the NFL's post-merger monopoly on professional football, Jacksonville was ready to join.
The Jacksonville ROAR is the professional cheerleading squad of the Jaguars.
* Eugene Monroe ( born 1987 ), professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
* Montell Owens ( born 1984 ), professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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.
He turned professional in 1972 and won his first tournament at Jacksonville.
Jacksonville's first professional hockey team since the Jacksonville Lizard Kings folded in 2000, they played their first home games at the Jacksonville Coliseum.
Soon after the approval of the bond issue, investors interested in attracting a new National Football League team to Jacksonville requested that another $ 30 million be added to the $ 49 million renovations in order to make the stadium more attractive for a professional team.
The Jacksonville Sharks were a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Jacksonville Bulls were a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida.
* Tyson Alualu, professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars
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.
In 1926 he went to Jacksonville, Florida, where he organized the Jacksonville All-Stars, the city's first attempt at a professional football team.

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