There Is Room For Another Football League

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(12-31-2017, 09:18 AM)WiregrassBenGal Wrote: That is an interesting post and one of the longest ones I've ever seen on here.

Whatever way they decided to do it, it would have to be sort of experimental and it would involve huge amounts of financial risk. Obviously it could put teams in cities that lost them, like St. Louis and San Diego, and also it could be profitable to have teams in London or Mexico City. Two places where a major pro team might work are Oklahoma and Alabama, which both have huge football  traditions and big cities in them. Or Omaha?

They also have articles sometimes about how there might be drastic changes in football anyway because of all the injuries. Would people watch pro football if they made it down-by-contact or some variation of flag football? Maybe, if they did away with replay and allowed one-foot-in on sideline catches to increase scoring.

One of the issues with the XFL other than the fact that all of the teams were worse than the worst NFL team was that the rules were pretty wacky and changed multiple times throughout the only season.  Does anyone actually recall watching the XFL?  I just recall watered down football and the recognizable names being guys who were pretty embarrassing NFL players.  Rashaan Salaam, Tommy Maddox, James Hundon, Jim Drunkenmiller, to name a few.

I'm thinking if we were to extrapolate today's NFL has-beens and never-was-es to the XFL we could be watching...oh let's see....a team featuring Zach Mettenberger handing off to Trent Richardson and tossing errant passes to Dwayne Bowe.