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Jaguars Fans Fly Banner Over Stadium With Angry Four-Word Demand for Owner Shad Khan

The Jacksonville faithful expressed their frustration ahead of a Week 17 game at EverBank Stadium.

Liam McKeone

Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are stumbling to the end of another brutal season, sitting at 3-12 entering Sunday's Week 17 game against the Tennessee Titans. As another campaign wraps up with the team performing well below expectations, fans are rightfully not happy, and a few enterprising individuals decided to express as much with a banner flying over EverBank Stadium on Sunday morning.

As has become all the rage recently, a small plane with a banner flew over the stadium with an angry message for team owner Shad Khan— to fire general manager Trent Baalke.

""Shad—Fire Baalke! For Duval!"

Earlier this season, New York Giants fans flew banners with similar demands to owner John Mara over MetLife Stadium on multiple occasions. It seems they've inspired other unhappy football fans who want better from their favorite teams.

Baalke has been the general manager of the Jaguars since November 2020. Jacksonville has posted two winning seasons in the four full years of his tenure, but has only made the playoffs once. With the Jags featuring one of the league's more exciting quarterbacks in Trevor Lawrence (who played in 10 games this season before undergoing shoulder surgery), the above banner is merely one of many signs that the frustration among the fan base is bubbling over.

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Liam McKeone
LIAM MCKEONE

Liam McKeone is a senior writer for the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has been in the industry as a content creator since 2017, and prior to joining SI in May 2024, McKeone worked for NBC Sports Boston and The Big Lead. In addition to his work as a writer, he has hosted the Press Pass Podcast covering sports media and The Big Stream covering pop culture. A graduate of Fordham University, he is always up for a good debate and enjoys loudly arguing about sports, rap music, books and video games. McKeone has been a member of the National Sports Media Association since 2020.

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