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Ferguson performing at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, 2010

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

Still, however, management at the 15, 000-seat Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena worried that the team's revenues were too low to justify the expense of setting up the facility for ice hockey.

He is memorialized ( as Edmund Kirby-Smith ) at Sewanee by the Kirby-Smith Memorial on University Avenue, by Kirby-Smith Point on the edge of the South Cumberland Mountains on the University Domain, and in the naming of the Kirby-Smith Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Sewanee, and in the naming of the Kirby-Smith Camp 1209, Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Kirby Smith Middle School, both in Jacksonville, Florida.

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

The Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena is a 15, 000 seat multi-purpose arena in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Jacksonville Giants, a member of the American Basketball Association, also play their home games at the Veterans Memorial Arena.

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The 2011 ABA All-Star Game resulted in a 123-122 Eastern conference win over the West, in front of a crowd of 4, 488 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.

The ballpark is located in downtown Jacksonville, situated between Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena and EverBank Field.

The management determined they would not be viable in the aging Jacksonville Coliseum, and decided to suspend operations in 2000 in anticipation of the construction of the new Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.

* Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 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.

Memorial to World War I Dead ( 1928 ) in Jacksonville

Following the 1969-1970 season, new owner Ned Doyle dropped " Miami " from the team's name and made it a " regional " franchise, scheduling games in Miami ( back at the Miami Beach Convention Center ), Tampa-St. Petersburg at the Curtis Hixon Hall and Bayfront Arena, Jacksonville at the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum, and in West Palm Beach at the West Palm Beach Auditorium.

Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum and Sam W. Wolfson Baseball Park made the city thoroughly modern.

On September 30, 2009 at 11: 15 a. m. EST, Couey died at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital after complications from anal cancer, before the sentence of the court could be carried out.

The group began as a Jacksonville cover band consisting of guitarists Buddy Buie, J. R. Cobb, Walter Eaton, keyboardist Joe Wilson, and singer Dennis Yost ( Buie ( as producer ) and Cobb would form The Atlanta Rhythm Section with Candymen drummer Robert Nix ( died on May 20, 2012, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 67 from complications following surgery in April ; he suffered from diabetes and multiple myeloma ), also from Jacksonville, and keyboardist Dean Daughtry in 1974 ).

It took place on March 18, 2001 from the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida.

It was built in 2003 as part of Mayor John Delaney's Better Jacksonville Plan to replace the outdated Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.

In 2010, Jacksonville received an Arena Football League expansion franchise, which revived the Sharks name.

The Jacksonville Sharks name was later revived for a team in the 2010 revival of the Arena Football League.

* Jacksonville Sharks, the reigning champion of the Arena Football League

On January 21, 2010, Garcia signed with the expansion Jacksonville Sharks when the Arena Football League reformed in 2010.

On August 12, 2011, with two seconds remaining in the 4th quarter, Garcia threw the winning touchdown pass as time expired in Arena Bowl XXIV to win his first Arena Bowl title for the Jacksonville Sharks.

Currently, the Arena is home to the Jacksonville Sharks of the Arena Football League and the Jacksonville Dolphins men's basketball team.

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 ).

When Aaron traveled around Jacksonville, Florida and the surrounding areas, he was often separated from his team because of Jim Crow laws.

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.

When new professional leagues started up to challenge the NFL's post-merger monopoly on professional football, Jacksonville was ready to join.

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.

Jacksonville looked like a team on the rise coming off of their 12 – 4 season, and was considered a playoff contender entering the season.

Heading into December, Jacksonville was at the top of the AFC South and in playoff contention.

From 1995 – 1997 and again from 2006 – 2009, the stadium was named Jacksonville Municipal Stadium.

Another well known backward pass in the NFL was the River City Relay in a game between the New Orleans Saints and the Jacksonville Jaguars on December 21, 2003.

The second was on September 26, 2010, in a 28 – 3 win at the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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.

On the other side of the world in 1983, Howard Jacobs created several wakeboards by mounting windsurfing foot straps and partial hydroslide pads on some smaller surfboards that he had shaped ; by 1984, he was throwing backflips on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.

Quarterback Mark Brunell — an off-season acquisition from the Jacksonville Jaguars — struggled in his first season, and was replaced midway through the season by backup Patrick Ramsey.

Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, known as the Ottawa Prophet, proposed that the cause of a Yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida in 1888 was astronomic.

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.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

The money was used to buy a large number of stores and move the company from its base operations in Youngstown, Ohio, to Jacksonville, Florida.

In 1993, the Memphis Hound Dogs was a proposed NFL expansion that was passed over in favor of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers.

In 2010, Jacksonville was listed as a " High sufficiency " world city in the World Cities Study Group ’ s inventory.

During the American Civil War, Jacksonville was a key supply point for hogs and cattle being shipped from Florida to aid the Confederate cause.

From 1893 to 1938 Jacksonville was the site of the Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home with a nearby cemetery.

On May 3, 1901, downtown Jacksonville was ravaged by a fire that started at a fiber factory.