Posted on 03/20/2018 9:07:42 PM PDT by cba123
The revived XFL won’t be the only alternative football league hoping to seize Americans’ attention.
Charlie Ebersol, the son of longtime NBC Sports executive Dick Ebersol and director of the 30 for 30 documentary about the original XFL his father created with WWE’s Vince McMahon, announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a football league next February. (ESPN’s Darren Rovell has all the details.)
The league is called the Alliance of American Football and will feature eight 50-man teams playing a 10-game schedule that begins on February 9, the Saturday after next year’s Super Bowl.
Funding for the league comes from the Peter Thiel-led Founder’s Fund, Barstool Sports investors the Chernin Group, former Vikings pass rusher Jared Allen and others.
(Please see full article at link, which I saw courtesy of the Drudge report.)
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McMahon did repeatedly hint, however, that players in his league would be required to stand for the national anthem.
Imagine that?!
(sorry, that is actually just the last sentence)
But the point was made.
:)
They’ve got to go head to head with the NFL at the beginning of the NFL system. Playing after the SuperBowl nobody is going to watch.
I think we all would agree that competition is great in business ... Why not in the business of football?
Great, I can watch professional football again. I hope the Negro Felon League has a bit of TV broadcast rights competition. Can not stand the over paid SJW idiots with degrees in underwater basket weaving telling us what justice is. Bunch of Friggin Self Important Morons.
I think if I’m reading that correctly, the new league will start (start) the week AFTER the Superbowl.
Yes?
Yep, football fans will be sick of football. Everybody is still going to watch the NFL. If they go head to head at the beginning of the season their "Superbowl" will be during the regular season of the NFL.
Maybe.
Or maybe there are a whole huge amount of football-loving Americans who will be completely ready for the games, which they can enthusiastically wait for...
HD cameras embedded IN the helmets facing forward will take the fan onto the field and into the game. Electronics embedded IN the ball will take away the guessing. Using the NFL rulebook from 20+ years ago will bring back a watchable product.
Besides, isn’t Peter Thiel on our side?
Big move, it seems to me.
I never get sick of watching football.
Just bad football or political football.
I would watch anything instead of basketball, which I never turn on.
I would watch croquet over basketball.
Are You Ready For Some Football?!
Basketball is by far the sport I played the most but never cared to watch it.
Exaaaaaaaaaaaactly.
Not until college basketball season is over. In fact, I could live with cutting down the pro season by a month and ending the "pagentry and tradition" of college football on New Years Day. I like football in its place, but everything gets boring when overexposed.
Because of the NFL, I quit watching “team sports”. If a sport can’t be played with 2 opposing players or a single player competing against a actual score or time, I don’t watch it anymore. Judged events...Never! I support individual effort in sports, just like in real life.
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