On Monday night, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ season seemingly went up in smoke when quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s got folded like an origami swan not once, but twice on the same play, leaving the star third-year quarterback pounding the Duval turf in agony.
Trevor Lawrence is hurt bad and he knows it. pic.twitter.com/aKjRL0oajh
— Tanner Phifer (@TannerPhiferNFL) December 5, 2023
With C.J. Beathard filling in for Lawrence, who limped off unable to put any weight on his right leg, the Jaguars went on to lose 34-31 in overtime, falling from the top overall seed in the AFC to the fourth with a single swing of Bengals kicker Evan McPherson’s leg. And yet, despite all the chaos, implications and armchair diagnoses, football fans couldn’t help themselves from cracking the same dark joke, which, like all things in Jacksonville, just so happened to include golf. Check it out.
There are more golf carts than people in Jacksonville. Make this make sense. pic.twitter.com/XhPktz247V
— Don Van Natta Jr. (@DVNJr) December 5, 2023
That looks like the longest walk ever for a injured player. Can someone pls drive him? its Jacksonville ppl use a golf cart to check the mailbox
— PFT Commenter (@PFTCommenter) December 5, 2023
How does Florida, filled with retirement and gated communities, not have a golf cart they can put Trevor Lawrence on?
— Sam Hoppen (@SamHoppen) December 5, 2023
Thousands of golf carts all over the state of Florida and they can’t find one for Trevor Lawrence.
— Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) December 5, 2023
I find it hard to believe that no one in Jacksonville, FL (of all places!) has a (golf) cart for Trevor Lawrence to get back to the locker room
— Molly Hogan (@MiMiHogan) December 5, 2023
Honestly, it’s a good point. What the heck is going on here? Lawrence is the future of the Jacksonville Jaguars franchise. Without him, they’re back to being the plain old Jacksonville Jaguars and, well, that’s not a good place to be. So why didn’t the Jaguars bring out the cart for Lawrence? Optics? Morale? Maybe they loaned their fleet out to TPC Sawgrass for the holiday rush? Another Twitter jokester had an interesting theory.
The Jaguars cart guy on the opposite end of the stadium trying to reach Trevor Lawrence pic.twitter.com/F29lWljLzL
— GhettoGronk (@TheGhettoGronk) December 5, 2023
The loss dropped to Jaguars to 8-4 but the Internet remains undefeated.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com