team expected -- new ticket sales are down 75 percent from last year and season ticket renewals are down 10 percent . No Jaguar games are sold out , despite a recent survey by The Media Audit that found 76 percent of adults in Jacksonville , Florida , regularly follow the Jaguars -- the fifth-best percentage of any NFL market . `` The economy is having that impact on us , '' Prescott said . `` As a very small market , I think we 're feeling it more than some of the other teams in the league . '' The Minnesota Vikings also have yet to sell out any of their games , though the team expects that could change with the recent high-profile signing of quarterback Brett Favre . Within a day of Favre 's signing , the Vikings had sold an additional 3,000 season tickets and 10,000 single-game tickets . `` The economy 's affecting all professional sports teams , '' said Steve LaCroix , the Vikings ' vice president of sales and marketing . `` We 're not only competing for people 's time and money , but trying to keep the fans in the stadium
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- The recession means competition in pro football this year is n't restricted to the gridiron . The National Football League and its 32 teams also are battling for the consumer 's discretionary spending dollars . Less-established NFL teams , such as the Jacksonville Jaguars , face special challenges in the recession . And just like on the playing field , some teams are having an easier time scoring an economic touchdown than others . `` Overall ticket sales are very positive but difficult in these challenging times , '' NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement . He did not provide overall ticket sales numbers for the current season . The league is coming off a year that saw overall attendance drop slightly , 0.7 percent , from 2007 amid the start of the economic slowdown . Bill Prescott , a Jacksonville Jaguars vice president and the team 's chief financial officer , said the team started to see the impact of the recession last year , when single-game ticket sales and concession revenue dropped as the season progressed . Heading into this season , he said , sales are off even more than the