It’s been a season full of bad, embarrassing news for the Jacksonville Jaguars and it doesn’t appear to be stopping anytime soon.
The Jaguars will wrap up their disastrous 2021 regular season on Sunday. The season, highlighted by Urban Meyer’s mid-season firing, cannot finish fast enough for the AFC South franchise.
While the Jaguars’ play on the field has been bad, there’s been even more embarrassing news off of it.
According to a report, one of the Jaguars’ sponsors is suing the team because of how bad and embarrassing of a season it was.
Seriously.
The Associated Press had more:
RoofClaim.com, a roofing company based in Georgia that does business in Florida, is seeking to avoid “its brand being emphasized as the primary sponsor of the clown game,” according to a complaint filed Thursday in circuit court in Jacksonville.
The company is demanding a jury trial and seeking damages in excess of $30,000. It also wants temporary and permanent injunctive relief from the Jaguars using the RoofClaim brand.
The Jaguars have responded to the lawsuit, calling it “baseless.” However, the company is claiming that the terms were broken.
According to the sponsorship agreement attached to the lawsuit, the company signed a four-year deal in August that started at $600,000 annually and increased about $18,000 every year thereafter. The deal includes a provision that would allow RoofClaim to terminate the agreement if Urban Meyer was no longer the team’s coach between the end of his third season (2023) and March, 1, 2024.
RoofClaim said it attempted to end its affiliation with the Jaguars the day after Meyer was fired Dec. 15, ending one of the worst coaching tenures in NFL history. The lawsuit says the Jaguars refused and insisted the partnership continue.
It’s been that kind of year in Jacksonville.
Still, many aren’t buying the legitimacy of the lawsuit.
Roof Claim, who clowned with the @Jaguars and teased a press conference as “roof technology experts” like it was to announce shade or some sort of roof, now wants a refund because fans might dress as clowns? I love a little PR stunt. I hate a frivolous lawsuit. https://t.co/rHD34NvLNq
— John M. Phillips (@JohnPhillips) January 7, 2022
If you don’t want to be associated with clowns, maybe… don’t sponsor the Jacksonville Jaguars? https://t.co/mI9xIOtBgP
— Jesse Spector (@jessespector) January 8, 2022
It’s a doozy to simultaneously argue that association with the Jaguars is damaging to your brand AND that your sponsorship was intended to only exist as long as Urban Meyer was the coach. https://t.co/8T9nbqPjRm
— Matt Huml (@Matt_Huml) January 9, 2022
Go Jags https://t.co/7kRkr7JKQV
— Chris Barnewall (@ChrisBarnewall) January 9, 2022
The 2-14 Jaguars are set to finish their regular season at 1 p.m. E.T. against the Colts.
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