New pro football league
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Is this a time machine back to 2001? Maybe it will last longer than 1 season this time? 
Who's going to watch that? College Football succeeds because it has huge passionate fan-bases, and hundreds of thousands of alumni.
What I think will happen eventually is the major college sports will go to the Olympic Model, and allow college athletes to profit off of their name and likeness. Universities will never pay student-athletes directly, there would be too many legal issues there (Title IX, unions, worker's comp, etc.).
What I think will happen eventually is the major college sports will go to the Olympic Model, and allow college athletes to profit off of their name and likeness. Universities will never pay student-athletes directly, there would be too many legal issues there (Title IX, unions, worker's comp, etc.).
I am all for this with one condition:
He Hate Me must be the comissioner.
He Hate Me must be the comissioner.
The only chance it would have to succeed is to allow kids to get paid straight out of HS and steal major talent away from colleges. Otherwise it's just a league for guys who couldn't make it in the NFL or CFL. Problem is, have you seen what guys get paid to play arena ball? It's barely a living. Dirty programs will be able to offer HS kids more money than a league like this will.
And oh by the way it will be competing with Arena ball, too. Fourth-to-fifth tier league for a sport where the USA is pretty much the only country producing players? Sounds like a solid business model to me!
And oh by the way it will be competing with Arena ball, too. Fourth-to-fifth tier league for a sport where the USA is pretty much the only country producing players? Sounds like a solid business model to me!
Yeah good luck with that..That will be some royally shitty football being played by guys nobody has ever heard of with coaches who couldn't get a job at a P5 school.
For the throng of posters here who run sub-4.4 and bench 400+, this is an outstanding opportunity. Good luck at the tryout camps.
This could work... A couple of things that would need to be done...
1. Have the league in the Spring. March thru June.
2. Locate in cities that don't already have teams (Portland, OKC, San Antonio, SLC... Oh, and Omaha.)
3. Allow players to sign out of high school. (This will piss off the NCAA and NFL, but hey gotta take chances.)
4. Leave the politics out of it.
5. Shape the rules as the NFL *USED* to be (Late 80's - Early 90's NFL)
6. Make sure the officials are held accountable.
1. Have the league in the Spring. March thru June.
2. Locate in cities that don't already have teams (Portland, OKC, San Antonio, SLC... Oh, and Omaha.)
3. Allow players to sign out of high school. (This will piss off the NCAA and NFL, but hey gotta take chances.)
4. Leave the politics out of it.
5. Shape the rules as the NFL *USED* to be (Late 80's - Early 90's NFL)
6. Make sure the officials are held accountable.
yes in the 60's upstart AFL, remember Joe Namath? eventually merged with the NFL AFC-NFC
In 1950, three All-American Football Conference teams (San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts) merged into the NFL. A fourth team, the Los Angeles Dons, merged with the NFL's Los Angeles Rams. That was after four seasons of the AAFC.
This.
Colleges should provide room board and tuition.
Anybody should be able to profit off themselves, advertising, jersey sales, etc.
Go head to head with the NFL in the fall.
Be patriotic as hell.
Draft college athletes like the usfl did. Pay them big money.
I wanna see this.
Be patriotic as hell.
Draft college athletes like the usfl did. Pay them big money.
I wanna see this.
I love when this gets brought up! It always makes me laugh!
So many amazing athletes that post here and of course don't forgot how so many of the posters also played on a high school team that had tons of dudes that were all benching over 350 and squatting over 500 and running 4.4's
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He had his cartilage replaced with pure muscle a few years ago @csabatka1Here's to hoping csabatka still has some cartilage left in his knees.
I ran 4.8 too, but it was uphill in the snow, and I had on those overshoes with Old Home Bread sacks tucked inside.I can only run a 4.8 but I do it while carrying 500 on my back
There has to be some kind of Gimmick to hook the viewers beyond just it being football. I think they should go after big name college QBs that don't get any love in the pros.
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