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re: AAF reportedly needed emergency $250 million investment
Posted on 2/19/19 at 12:43 pm to TheeRealCarolina
Posted on 2/19/19 at 12:43 pm to TheeRealCarolina
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No one is paying $29 plus shipping for a hat for a new minor league football team.
Apparently they are; every site that sells their merchandise has sold out at least twice already... you damn near had to be on a waiting list to get anything at all.
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Posted on 2/19/19 at 12:46 pm to G8RU
Yep. I tried to buy an iron hat and the shits out of stock.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 12:54 pm to TexasTiger08
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I was sad to see Arena Football collapse. It was a mainstay league.
the biggest issue with AFL that kept me from watching was it was too heavily weighted to be high scoring.
that plus the vastly reduced size of the field
i like offensive scoring games but im not interested in a game where each team scores touchdowns on every possession in an average of 5-10 seconds and the winner is decided simply by who has the ball last.
if area style rules were played on an NFL sized field, then i would watch it, because then there would be some defense involved, and scoring was earned on long scoring drives rather then just being a given and only mistakes caused you to fail to score.
AFL is like basketball, you only need to watch the last 2 minutes of the game because nothing that happened before that matters to who wins
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 12:54 pm to 1999
the fact they "needed" 250M immediately - and some guy just gave it to them - is fishy is hell.
What Ebersol is saying makes a lot more sense.
They get the money they need and can start to expand and put it to work. Whatever ownership percentage Dundon gets now, that percentage might have cost him more in 6-12 months.
Now the AAF can focus on football and expansion.
Guys like Dundon don't become relatively young and insanely rich by making bad investments, especially of this magnitude.
You haters are just going to have to deal with it. The AAF might actually have some success.
What Ebersol is saying makes a lot more sense.
They get the money they need and can start to expand and put it to work. Whatever ownership percentage Dundon gets now, that percentage might have cost him more in 6-12 months.
Now the AAF can focus on football and expansion.
Guys like Dundon don't become relatively young and insanely rich by making bad investments, especially of this magnitude.
You haters are just going to have to deal with it. The AAF might actually have some success.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:01 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Guys like Dundon don't become relatively young and insanely rich by making bad investments, especially of this magnitude.
Ehh that’s a fallacy. Rich dudes make bad investments all the time. They just have other investments that outweigh the bad and when you hit you hit big
Look at all the people who got cleaned out by Elizabeth Holmes. It’s reads off like a list of the worlds richest and smartest businessmen.
It’s a common fallacy people fall for and the difference is when those guys mess up, they are out a lot of money but have a lot of money to fall back on. When Joe scmho puts his life savings into something because “well this smart and rich guy is into it so it must be something” and it bottoms out, Joe Schmo is out on the streets
This post was edited on 2/19/19 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 2/19/19 at 1:34 pm to stapuffmarshy
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Duh. It's garbage. Someone start another thread on how exciting it is though
There will not be another post this entire week that is as accurate as your post. Sums it up nicely.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:35 pm to FairhopeTider
LMFAO!I called this after the 1st week.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:41 pm to FairhopeTider
but i was assured by this board that it was more popular than the NBA
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:45 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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They're paying the players too much
Uh, Mike Singetary is making $500k
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:47 pm to Cocotheape
Vince McMahon and Oliver Luck are either very nervous or very happy right now.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:51 pm to wildtigercat93
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Look at all the people who got cleaned out by Elizabeth Holmes. It’s reads off like a list of the worlds richest and smartest businessmen.
She targeted people who had no knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 2:51 pm to Ghost of Colby
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Vince McMahon and Oliver Luck are either very nervous
This.
The AAF will shortly be on the trash heap of all those other alternative leagues.
WFL
USFL
Arena League
WLAF
XFL
NFL Europe
When will these folks ever learn?
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:10 pm to G8RU
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Combine the resources, capital, venues, and SOME NFL involvement, and you could have a real "minor" or developmental league.
Minor or developmetal leagues cannot work or exist without subsidies from parent organizations or leagues.
The NFL already has CFB and the lost MILLIONS on NFL Europe.Why do they need to flush money down the toilet with the AAF...makes absolutely no sense.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:10 pm to RD Dawg
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WFL
USFL
Arena League
WLAF
XFL
NFL Europe
When will these folks ever learn?
The USFL tried to directly compete with the NFL. The rest of those leagues all tried to be very different from the NFL.
AAF is different. They are not competing with the NFL but they aren't dramatically different, either.
It's basically an independent AAA baseball league. Judge it as such.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:13 pm to WestCoastAg
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but i was assured by this board that it was more popular than the NBA
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:30 pm to keakar
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if it would be on regular network channels people might watch it
but nope, its only on NFL channel or cbs sports channel so the only area that carries it on regular network TV is if you have a local team or you have to use an app to watch it on your phone
Tell me why you think that is
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:41 pm to LSUFanHouston
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The rest of those leagues all tried to be very different from the NFL.
The only one that was fundamentally different was Arena League.
quote:No idea what this even means...it's still the same game on the field as those other leagues
AAF is different. They are not competing with the NFL but they aren't dramatically different, either
quote:
It's basically an independent AAA baseball league. Judge it as such.
Where are these AAA independent "leagues" and what's their record of success?
I know there's some TEAMS in class A and AA but not familiar with AAA leagues.Which ones?
Posted on 2/19/19 at 3:44 pm to keakar
quote:that was the whole point of the AFL... And you can't argue that it didn't breed innovation
biggest issue with AFL that kept me from watching was it was too heavily weighted to be high scoring.
that plus the vastly reduced size of the field
quote:you're indirectly complimenting the parity of the league and the close games
AFL is like basketball, you only need to watch the last 2 minutes of the game because nothing that happened before that matters to who wins
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:21 pm to FairhopeTider
The league missed payroll or the teams? Big, big difference.
Posted on 2/19/19 at 4:23 pm to baybeefeetz
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The league missed payroll or the teams? Big, big difference.
The league owns all of the teams. So there isn't any difference.
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