{"id":112863,"date":"2026-01-10T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:37:13","slug":"mayors-of-each-city-make-friendly-wager-on-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112863\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors of each city make friendly wager on game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 9, 2026, 2:49 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ahead of Sunday&#8217;s AFC wild-card game between the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" data-autotag=\"1082767b-7fb4-4f44-b217-cdba2c3895e9\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>, the Mayors of each city have made a friendly wager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Appearing on &#8216;Good Morning Football,&#8217; Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan detailed what is at stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We made a little friendly wager that when the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/jacksonville-jaguars\/365\" data-autotag=\"0e187629-debe-49e8-9e02-83bd36ad3fcc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> win this game, as they most assuredly will,&#8221; Deegan said, &#8220;they will be sending us a truckload of Buffalo wings, which I just cannot wait to have. And also a contribution to our local food bank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And if the Bills win?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;In the unlikely, and actually impossible event that the Bills would win,&#8221; Deegan added, &#8220;what they&#8217;re going to miss out on is the best shrimp in the world &#8212; Mayport Shrimp. We&#8217;d make a contribution to their food bank as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Jaguars will enter the postseason red-hot, having won eight games in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On both sides of the ball during that stretch, Jacksonville is getting elite play, with the offense averaging nearly 33 points per game during that span and the defense giving up under 15 points per contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For a closer look at how the Jaguars and Bills stack up and who has the advantage, you can find that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2026\/01\/06\/advantage-jacksonville-jaguars-buffalo-bills-afc-wild-card-matchup\/88043983007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And <a href=\"http:\/\/jaguarswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/jaguars\/2026\/01\/09\/nfl-experts-predict-winner-jaguars-bills-afc-wild-card-game\/88097920007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is who the NFL experts are picking to win this matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 9, 2026, 2:49 p.m. ET Ahead of Sunday&#8217;s AFC wild-card game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,47,116,118,117,1254,9548,298,2184,10367,6559,1758,420,342,332,442,96,300,34],"class_list":["post-112863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-accessfree","tag-fl","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sstssportsnfljaguars","tag-sstsnjaguars","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagamerican-football-conference","tag-tagbuffalo-bills","tag-tagdonna-deegan","tag-tagjacksonville","tag-tagjacksonville-jaguars","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}