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The forgotten game that changed the course of the Jaguars franchise and the NFL

With the Jaguars celebrating their 25th season in 2019, you’ve likely been reliving some of the most memorable moments of the team’s first 24 seasons through various medians like here at Big Cat Country, on the team’s official site, and on multiple local radio programming. While many of the recollections have come from the most notorious historical talking points of Jags lore, there’s one game that gets lost among the crowded memories of “62-7” and “Myles Jack Wasn’t Down!”. It was a game that at the time defined a most bipolar of seasons for a very young and very bipolar team, and unbeknownst to just about everyone at the time, it was a game that set the course for a head coach, a franchise, and the NFL for years to come.