Generally speaking, when referring to Florida's football fans in our neck of the woods, you're talking the Florida Gators. With Gainesville and the University of Florida just a short drive from Florahome, you'll find orange and blue a favorite color scheme in these parts and Gator fans, even in their current post-Tebow slump, as passionate and loyal as any in football. If you mean by 'Florida's football fans' - those other football fans in the state of Florida, there's a city to the north currently taking issue with their team's fans. Even at this late hour before a nationally televised Monday night game, 3000 or so tickets have yet to sold for the Jacksonville Jaguar-Tennessee Titans game. The Jaguars have been on a popularity roller-coaster since the early days and fans are still being asked, or begged may be a better word, to prove their loyalty once again. There are about as many opinions as to why the Jaguars are considered unpopular in the NFL as there are Jaguar fans. Many chalk it up to Jacksonville being just a college town, but consider this,... teams like the Gators or the Seminoles at Florida State have been around a good while. Fan loyalty takes time, even generations to build, not just in Florida but anywhere spectator sports are played. The teams ranked most popular in the same article labeling the Jags the most unpopular in the NFL are teams that have a long history and their fans raised by earlier fans of these venerable teams. These are your tail-Gators and people like the one pictured in this Jaguars.com splash ad. In the case of the Jaguars, fans like these are the ones that bleed teal and so genetically pass their passion on to their offspring. It takes time but this is a major player in the way fan loyalty is built. Whether your talking the University of Miami Hurricanes, Miami's pro team, the Dolphins or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, true football fans in the state of Florida are like those anywhere else in the world - they don't have to be begged to come to the game. They come, win or lose,... IT'S IN THEIR BLOOD.
