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I also read that teams are limited to 50 players each. Could lead to some interesting Iron Man players. Should also keep the team budget down as well.
Spurrier has already invited Tebow to come and play for his team. You think that'll put some butts in the seats?
remember the good old days - one platoon football. Players pretty much went both ways - FB's were LB as were some guards, OT were DL, WR were CB and safety, etc. QB also played some defense. Talk about cost cutting...made the really big guys get in shape since they had to do a lot of running on both sides of the ball.
The USFL failed when they moved their games to the fall, trying to compete directly with the NFL. Trump was a USFL owner then and had a big part in talking the other owners into that failed move. They were actually cutting a profit before making that move.
I never looked into why the XFL failed.
If these AAF guys are smart, they’ll find a way to market a story behind the league. Get us personally invested in these guys as people, not just football players. I think that’s why I can be an avid fan of college football, but barely care about the NFL. It’s just more exciting to watch kids try to make something of themselves than it is to watch men go into work every day.
A lot of you, that wouldn’t matter so much to. You just love watching the game of football so much, it doesn’t matter who the guys are playing. You just want to see how well they play. But there are guys like me to, who need some kind of story behind the game to really get into it.
I honestly think there just wasn't that much interest. I watched a couple of games, and the product was inferior, along with a cartoonish atmosphere.....like the guy who had 'He Hate Me' on the back of his jersey where the name was supposed to be.
They tried too hard to be "extreme". They did pioneer the sky cam...so it wasn't all bad. But overall, like you said, it was very cartoonish. Too much WWE and not enough X's and O's.
Rod Smart aka “He Hate Me” is the only player I remember from the XFL. The guy was pretty good and went on to play in the NFL for a few years.
I think if you asked anyone if they remember a single player from the XFL, this is the guy they'll name. He's also the only one I remember.
Tommy Maddox won a championship and parlayed it into the Steelers starting QB job for a few years. I always forget that part
Is the only time someone’s been successful creating a second, alternative league for professional sports the ABA? I think it was called the ABA. it was a basketball league that was eventually absorbed into the NBA.
Kind of seems like the exception that proves the rule though. Since they didn’t really survive but were absorbed by the dominant league. It’s just that at least they died with a happy ending.
I vaguely remember that the ABA had basketballs that weren’t all one color. So when the ball was shot, the colors would spin, making it look flashy.
The American Football League (AFL) competed against the NFL in the 60s and then merged with them, like the ABA did with the NBA.
Yep, the AFL was the original "alternate" pro league.
Yeah, I remember that now. It’s part of the story about how Atlanta finally got an NFL team. The AFL was gonna give us one, so the NFL finally got off their asses and gave us one.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the only reason the alternate leagues were able to survive was just due to the sheer laziness of the dominant leagues.
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It was. And they were able to beat an NFL team a lot quicker than anyone ever gave them credit for. Hell, the only reason Joe Namath is in the HOF is because of the 'guarantee' that the Jets would beat the Colts in SB III. Other than that game, Namath was a better than average pro QB that threw more INTs than TDs, and stayed injured a lot more than he played.