The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League as a member club of the American Football Conference South division.
The team plays its home games at TIAA Bank Field.
Founded alongside the Carolina Panthers in 1995 as an expansion team, the Jaguars originally competed in the AFC Central until they were realigned to the AFC South in 2002. The franchise is owned by Shahid Khan, who purchased the team from original majority owner Wayne Weaver in 2011.
The Jaguars made an early impact in the NFL by qualifying for the playoffs four years in a row, between their second and fifth seasons, with two division titles, and two AFC Championship Game appearances. Both the Jaguars and their expansion cousins, the Carolina Panthers, became the youngest NFL teams to reach the conference finals, achieving the feat in 1996.
The team on Wednesday announced that it’s switching from black to teal as its primary home uniform color, which was a big part of the uniform during the franchise’s success during its early years.
“We’ve heard the fans loud and clear,” head equipment manager Jimmy Luck said in a statement. “As the only team in the NFL that wears teal, we know what this color means to our organization, the 904, and our entire fanbase.
Teal inspires great memories of some of our franchise’s greatest moments. Making the switch to teal as our primary uniform color allows us to celebrate that history while kicking off a new era of Jaguars football.”