They are only going to pay players $3000 per game, and only play in cities without an NFL franchise.
Who is really going to watch a bunch of Arena League rejects when the Memphis Mugwumps travel to take on the Toledo Green Hornets?
Then I guess Fun City is in line for a team.
Who’s going to watch? NFL Scouts and Football Junkies like me. I can’t stand the Football Down Time from the end of the Super Bowl until Late August. I used to watch the NBA and Major League Baseball, but now find them both boring and predictable. I don’t expect the USFL to draw a lot of fans, but it might be a diversion away from an otherwise boring Spring/Summer.
Maybe now they could do what the English Premier League does, bring in Promotion/Relegation. I guess that idea wouldn’t go over very well in St Louis.
Oh no!
That means LA will have a team and NFL teams won't be able to threaten to move there so they can extort taxpayer money for more new stadiums from existing NFL cities.
People in Toledo. The same kinds of folks really that watch D league basketball, and minor league hockey and baseball, regular folks in small towns. Minor league sports are a lot of fun, tickets tend to be cheap, there tends to be a lot of “side” entertainment during breaks in the game, there’s a strong community atmosphere. On a dollar value of entertainment basis minor league sports kicks the crap out of big league.