This Better Not Awaken Anything In Me
I felt like I was going a bit nuts this past weekend. Not because the Jaguars actually won, they still occasionally do that, but because my entire timeline was wigging out over the mascot wearing a speedo. This was driving me nuts because…this is not a new development? Jaxson De Ville has long been the best mascot in the league and this was absolutely not his first time in a speedo. He does that quite a lot, actually. I learned from a few Jags fans he jumps in the pool in a speedo after every home win. He was in a speedo just a few weeks ago. Why were people just noticing the banana hammock now?
I have a decent-sized Jags fan following (out of all fanbases, I’d say the Vikings and Jaguars are probably my biggest fan groups, probably more than the Giants. Giants fans aren’t very online and they tend to be a grumpy lot who hates fun when they are. I’m going to have to conduct a survey at some point to find out for sure). So maybe my perspective was just skewed, but it seemed wild to me that so many people, including many news figures who should have already known this, hadn’t yet discovered Speedo De Ville. What about you in the comments? Did you know about the speedo?
Anyway the Jaguars are easily the horniest, sexiest fanbase, and I say that only half-panderingly. Keep getting weird, Jacksonville.
As a Chargers fan, I say let his speedo fly free.
At least it makes the Jaguars stand out as a franchise.
In the week that Clarence Gilyard, Theo from the original Die Hard, passed away, I don’t get how this is such a precise science, but…
Yiffy-ki-ay, fuzzyf**ker.
Can confirm: Am Giants fan. Hate fun.
This guy should be IN JAIL.
Giants fan in football, Mets fan in baseball, reader only on fan sites of each (for some reason they’re hard to sign up on in Chrome) but can say there’s a noticeable difference in humor and mirth between both sites. As with every Tristate area based fanbase in every sport there’s perpetual widespread panic and pessimism on both sites in the comments section, but on the Giants site it rarely goes beyond gallows humor while the Mets site at least tends to also have some great pun threads in them (especially now during Hot Stove League season).
Also could be because the traditional alignment tends to be between the core Manhattan-ish* teams (Yankees/Giants/Knicks/Rangers) and the more Outerboro/Suburban teams (Mets/Jets/Islanders or Devils/ and possibly Nets**), though its not as strict as you’d think. Mets/Giants fans I’ve met tend to have grown up in the 80’s, while a lot of the Yankees/Jets fans I’ve known grew up in the 90’s and 00’s.
* Yes I know the Yankees are technically Bronx but it’s really just a stones throw across the Harlem River, and yes the Giants left the City in 197?, and abandoned the Polo Grounds in the 50’s (and the Mets and Jets started off in the Polo Grounds).
** I’ve never known an actual Nets fan. They most have them. But in the 90’s when they were pretty good I can’t recall a single Nets fan in high school and that was in the City. Did it take the Knicks being a train wreck for two decades to finally give the Nets an opening?
i dont like the jags anymore
The jags have the be best mascot
As a Titans fan, I was unaware of Speedo De Ville, since the Jags haven’t won at home against the Titans in years.
Shoutout to the time Jaxson De Ville got suspended a game for carrying a Terrible Towel saying “Towels Carry Ebola”. Legend
Holy crap, that’s amazing.
I’ll just post this with a NSFW disclaimer:
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/29/81/3d/29813d5528e9fd51ca00307de4130ee1–funny-sports-san-diego-chargers.jpg
That’s just creepy.
I know Whirlwound and I are Miami fans. Not sure about Jags though (at least in the comments)
Fellow Miami fan, only Jags fan I can think of is a fictional character.
Funnily enough, my manager is a Jags fan. You see a lot more at the London games, naturally.
Is the “Band” shirt a Nothing Nice To Say reference?
Holy shit, there is a reference I haven’t heard in a long time!
I’m all for that survey. I think it would be interesting to see who everyone here likes.
As a stats geek in my day job, I’m trying to restrain myself from writing a whole bunch of questions to go on the survey.
I can’t say I could recall a single time he’d done it previously, but upon seeing all the hoohah over Jaxon DeVille and his speedo this past week I was like “yup, that Jaxon for ya” because odd shit is his calling card.
I think it became a thing because the announcers were repeatedly mentioning and laughing about it, not only on the “normal” broadcast but the Red Zone broadcast was focusing on the game when it was happening too, so it was probably a lot of casual fans getting exposed to it for the first time since I would assume the Jags are mostly only on in regional markets the last few years.
If anyone is wondering where all the Jags fans are we’re on Twitter.
Great
Great article
I’m all for the survey. Would think it’d be interesting to see what was the “local” team of your youth and currently, as well as your favorite/2nd favorite and least favorite (or least favorite who’s not in division), and has your current favorite always been your favorite or has it changed over time
My college roommate (and still close friend) is a big Jaguars fan, and I spent the last 15 years living in the hell of Colts country, so Jags games all the time, and I was only vaguely aware of their mascot, and definitely no the speedo
I feel like showing up to gameday in a speedo is one of the less weird things Jaxon has done in his career as the greatest mascot in football.
Remember the Orangina ad campaigns?
The fact that this comic was posted the same weekend that the biggest furry convention in the world was happening… XD
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