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Why not form a competing organization similar to the NFL?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:30 pm
The NFL is just a private entity with teams as members. Nothing says they are the end all be all arbiter of professional football.
All that would have to happen is fans boycott this bullshite long enough to hurt revenues and enough owners will pull their teams out and form another organization and rewrite the rules of the game and stay out of the political arena. The NFL would be done and then the rest of the teams would join the new organization
All that would have to happen is fans boycott this bullshite long enough to hurt revenues and enough owners will pull their teams out and form another organization and rewrite the rules of the game and stay out of the political arena. The NFL would be done and then the rest of the teams would join the new organization
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Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:31 pm to deltaland
Sure. Got a spare 10 billion I can borrow?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:31 pm to deltaland
I would support the USFL 2nd coming.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:32 pm to deltaland
quote:
All that would have to happen is fans boycott this bullshite long enough to hurt revenues and enough owners will pull their teams out and form another organization and rewrite the rules of the game and stay out of the political arena.
Oh, is that all?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:33 pm to deltaland
I just want empty stadiums all across the country. No revenue coming in and watch how fast they stand their oppressed millionaire arses up
1 empty stadium is all it will take.
1 empty stadium is all it will take.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:35 pm to deltaland
I'm only on board with this if CptBengal is named Commissioner.
For life.
For life.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:42 pm to deltaland
You act like this hasn't been tried before.
Football is an incredibly expensive sport. 55 players per team each wearing thousands of dollars of equipment. It has a massive barrier to entry to compete with a long-established, much larger competitor.
I think the market is there for an alternative that plays in the spring, utilizing the old football rules (old kickoff location, old extra point location, old pass interference rules, no targeting, laxer roughing the passer, etc). Utilizing in-game ads rather than lengthy commercial breaks between possessions (commercial breaks would only occur during reviews, timeouts, quarter breaks, and halftime) would shorten games.
Such a league could have greater variety of offensive schemes like spread run, air raid, triple option, power I, pro-form, etc.
They could have cheep concessions and sell beer.
If they offer contracts to students straight out of high school, they could have an in.
I think doing this in smaller markets where there is little pro presence like Birmingham, , .
West
Riverside
Sacramento
Salt Lake City
Portland
San Diego
Odessa-Permian
Omaha
San Antonio
East
Little Rock
Raleigh
St. Louis
Memphis
Orlando
Birmingham
Milwaukee
Grand Rapids
Football is an incredibly expensive sport. 55 players per team each wearing thousands of dollars of equipment. It has a massive barrier to entry to compete with a long-established, much larger competitor.
I think the market is there for an alternative that plays in the spring, utilizing the old football rules (old kickoff location, old extra point location, old pass interference rules, no targeting, laxer roughing the passer, etc). Utilizing in-game ads rather than lengthy commercial breaks between possessions (commercial breaks would only occur during reviews, timeouts, quarter breaks, and halftime) would shorten games.
Such a league could have greater variety of offensive schemes like spread run, air raid, triple option, power I, pro-form, etc.
They could have cheep concessions and sell beer.
If they offer contracts to students straight out of high school, they could have an in.
I think doing this in smaller markets where there is little pro presence like Birmingham, , .
West
Riverside
Sacramento
Salt Lake City
Portland
San Diego
Odessa-Permian
Omaha
San Antonio
East
Little Rock
Raleigh
St. Louis
Memphis
Orlando
Birmingham
Milwaukee
Grand Rapids
This post was edited on 9/24/17 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:44 pm to deltaland
Yeah...those competing leagues worked really well in the past
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:45 pm to deltaland
People have tried.
But the NFL is a monopoly, courts have ruled as such.
But the NFL is a monopoly, courts have ruled as such.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:46 pm to deltaland
Trump did that already. Believe it or not, it failed.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:46 pm to deltaland
What about the NBA alternative?
All it would take is one owner(Donald Trump) to bring Lebron and Steph over.
All it would take is one owner(Donald Trump) to bring Lebron and Steph over.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:47 pm to deltaland
Trump has some experience with failure at that.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:53 pm to Badbilly1974
quote:
Trump has some experience with failure at that.
This whole candidacy/presidency is just 56-dimensional chess to get back at the NFL. Long live the NJ Generals!
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:53 pm to deltaland
Vince McMahon gonna make the XFL great again.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:54 pm to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
quote:
What about the NBA alternative?
NBA already has a minor league system. The NFL does not.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:55 pm to deltaland
They tried that before and they really never work out but I'd like to see the XFL again. Vince McMahon and President Trump have worked together a few times!!!
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:56 pm to AUstar
quote:
Vince McMahon gonna make the XFL great again.
I truly believe that had the XFL come out just a few years later (after all of the rules changes) and offered contracts to high school graduates, it would have been a rousing success.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:57 pm to deltaland
trump already tried it.
ask him whose arse got owned.
ask him whose arse got owned.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:57 pm to kingbob
Saints fan since '66.
Today niether the TV nor Internet was tuned in to the NFL.
I don't need the NFL nor Saints that bad. I never realized that till today!
Today niether the TV nor Internet was tuned in to the NFL.
I don't need the NFL nor Saints that bad. I never realized that till today!
Posted on 9/24/17 at 6:58 pm to kingbob
quote:
I truly believe that had the XFL come out just a few years later (after all of the rules changes) and offered contracts to high school graduates, it would have been a rousing success.
I completely agree with this. The XFL was an idea ahead of it's time.
The idea wast hat the NFL had gotten too boring and soft and the XFL would be "extreme"
However the NFL had only gotten a little soft at that point. It didn't go full blown baby soft until a decade later.
As the NFL becomes more and more sterile and corporate, the features the XFL brought to the table actually stand out more.
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