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Jacksonville lots trashed after Sunday's game

Some Jacksonville fans are upset about trash left in parking lots by tailgaters.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- As Bills fans return home after Sunday's loss, some Jaguars fans are upset about the mess tailgaters left behind at the parking lots around EverBank Field.

There is also a video posted to Facebook showing a fire that our sister-station in Jacksonville says was started by Bills fans.

First Coast News sent a reporter to cover the mess left behind by tailgaters following Sunday's game.

Video from his report shows some beer cans and trash bags on the ground. Jacksonville fans volunteered to come out and clean up the trash Monday morning.

"I'm going to go on out here, I'm going to carry some stuff out here, and I won't be working in vain. I'll be a benefit. I'll do something," says Jacksonville fan Edward Frazier.

Anyone who's been to an NFL or college tailgate has certainly seen parking lots left in worse shape after a game. 2 On Your Side's Heather Prusak, who was at the game, says the tailgating mess wasn't worse than what you see in Orchard Park.

We also asked Bills fans who were in Jacksonville to tells us what they saw. Bobby was driving back to Western New York from Florida on Monday and he tweeted, "Post-game in Lot X was exactly like every non-official lot in OP after a home game. There were empty beer cans and bottles everywhere for sure, but it really wasn't that bad."

Meagan tweeted, "We didn't park in the tailgaters lot, but at the fairgrounds. And, besides one broken table, I didn't see any trash leaving the game."

And, before we started working on our story Monday, Del Reid, one of the co-founders of the Bills Mafia tweeted, "I'm proud Bills fans travel well, but there's obviously a contingent that need to learn there's a better way to treat a host city with respect than tackling its team's fans while they carry their coolers through a tailgate, and setting bonfires after the game that require the FD."

Our sister-station in Jacksonville reports that Bills fans set a fire, and someone posted the video of it to a public Facebook page. By Monday morning, volunteers like Frazier had cleaned up most of the mess.

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