Posted on 02/18/2018 2:31:15 AM PST by vannrox
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This stuff is all click bait.
The last time around, Vince set up the XFL salary structure as follows: Quarterbacks made $35K per season, all other players made $30K. I don't see Vinnie Mac paying out any big salaries this time around, either.What are the players going to do? Since Vince owns all of the franchises, they can't become free agents and sign for more money with another XFL team. Most of the players will sign on with the XFL hoping to stand out enough to attract the attention of one of the NFL teams.
By that standard, minor-league baseball is impossible. But it seems to be pretty well-attended. :)
The XFL will be a minor league, no matter what happens. But people will give it a chance.
Respectfully, I disagree. There are thousands of good players in college. Only a couple hundred or so make it into the NFL. I see three things going for an XFL restart. One, there are plenty of good players. Two, the players that go into the NFL are they ones that can excel in that rule-bound environment. They are not necessarily the best physically. Three, a more raw, less scripted game, where mistakes are made on both sides of the ball makes for a more exciting, anything can happen on any play environment. I like his chances.
And putting a bunch of NFL washouts in a game will fix which parts of that? Note it didn’t before. The XFL put out a terrible product that got pathetic ratings and probably shouldn’t even have bothered to finish the season. I predict it’ll be even more pathetic this time, they actually might give up midseason.
2 of the 4 broadcasting contracts were renewed last year. One doubled in price, the other went up over 30%. The NFL ain’t dying. They’re still the biggest game in town, by a large margin.
Agree! I love football, but I detest the NFL.
As a life-long Packer Backer, the NFL has betrayed Vince Lombardi and the rest of my childhood hero’s. The NFL is dead to me!
2 of 6. Brain not do math early in morning.
Specifically, at the most important position, there might be 12 NFL quarterbacks who play at a consistently high level. At least three will get knocked out for the season, and another three will miss substantial game time because of injuries.
When you combine injuries, brief careers, and a talent shortage, a competitive second league is impossible.
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True enough. Here is where your analysis breaks down. The NFL locker rooms are now divided between the social activist revolutionaries and the guys who just want to play football. The Oakland Raiders black linemen refused to block for the white “star” QB because he refused to support the protests. The QB was out for the season with rib injuries. Many talented players will be forced out of the NFL because they will be viewed by the thugs now running the league as SCABS, I remember the AFL was laughed at until Joe Namath jumped to the league for $400,000 a year and brought instant respectability to the league. The hard core football fan will put up with less talent in favor of more entertaining games. college football has a great following even though National Champ Alabama couldn’t beat the worst team in the NFL. McMahon is a marketing genius and many fans will jump to XFLjust to stick it up the NFL’s sanctimonious ass!
The XFL could survive as a minor-league if he offers the top high-school players the opportunity to play for pay just as baseball does.
And Hillary won the popular vote in 2016. So . . . Wow!
When you’re talking about a professional sports league it’s the money that matters. I know here it’s popular to blame all of the NFL’s woes on kneeling players but out in reality the NFL doesn’t actually have any woes that anybody else isn’t having. Yes ratings are down, LESS than the average for the rest of TV, and less than most of the other sports league, and the numbers are still high enough that the networks are willing to pay significantly more for the rights than the expiring contracts. You asked about the predictions of NFL resurgence, I pointed out they’re fine. Any problems they’re having will be faced equally by the XFL, much like how they’re being faced by NCAA (ratings are down, attendance dropped 34% in recent years).
“Delusional.
There are not enough high quality players and coaches to staff the 32 team NFL, even at the beginning of the season..”
Not really.
I would rather watch two teams of lesser quality athletes play with every bit of their ability EVERY PLAY than watch overpaid “top quality” athletes only use half their ability.
Give me players who play for love of the game and I will watch.
Until they start kneeling.
McMahon also learns from his mistakes.
At one time WCW was kicking WWE butt and people were looking for McMahon to fold.
Instead he revamped his product and repackaged the company and ended up buying WCW.
Mac won’t make the same mistakes this time.
The man learns.
They can finance the whole thing via a new XFL owned fantasy football operation like Draftkings...I’d be in.
Here’s the problem.
The quality of play in the NFL has declined significantly, at times games are just unwatchable as a result. What kind of players are going to be in the XFL? The only thing that keeps the NFL where it is, is the history of the teams, and the built-up loyalty to those teams. There is no history, or tradition with the XFL, it’s most likely just going to be bad, boring football. And bad football is very boring.
Re: “The XFL will be a minor league, no matter what happens.”
We already have a highly successful minor league.
It’s called “college football.”
That's a really interesting idea.
One wild card, though.
I think the NFL has just begun to deal with the long term medical liabilities created by their former players.
Until somebody gets a good fix on what that final number will be, I think McMahon will struggle to attract investors.
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