JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – TIAA announced in November it was selling. Since then, no one was really sure what this would mean for the name of TIAA Bank Field. Well, now we know.
The field is going back to the name EverBank and will conduct business under the name EverBank Stadium starting September 10, 2023.
Here’s the backstory.
TIAA took over the naming rights of the Jaguars football stadium when it acquired EverBank Financial Corp. in 2018. That’s when it merged EverBank with TIAA’s smaller bank subsidiary.
READ: TIAA Bank letter to Jaguars and Jacksonville
Before then, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ home became EverBank Field in 2010 when the bank acquired the naming rights. From 1997 until 2006, the stadium was named Alltel after the now-defunct communications company purchased the naming rights. The stadium opened in 1995 as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium on the site of the old Gator Bowl Stadium.
In a letter dated June 21, 2023, to the Jaguars and the city of Jacksonville, TIAA Bank gave notice of “Naming Sponsor Name Change.” The letter essentially asks for the team’s and the city’s consent to the name change of the stadium.
A lot of the people News4JAX spoke with said they won’t miss those four letters, TIAA.
Some said they couldn’t even remember it the majority of the time.
“In my heart, it’s still the Gator Bowl,” said Carl Frederick, a longtime Jacksonville resident.