02-03-2018, 09:44 AM
(01-30-2018, 01:41 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Ill check that out..
But yeah this thing is a way off still gotta find investors and cities etc... Whats its exactly gonna be probly isn't clear cut yet until they make more progress
1. They should follow what the AFL did in the 1960's. There is need for another league besides NFL. NFL teams are now loading up deep at RB. Many could start in another league and same with back-up quarterbacks. As the league grows as AFL did, they will get top college players to choose them over NFL. They will need a solid TV Station. CBS, Fox and NBC are locked in on NFL. Maybe ABC to keep antenna TV in the loop.
2. NFL cities without teams in 2020 look to be St Louis, San Diego, Oakland. Texas has possible owners from them wanting Saints after Hurricane Katrina. Let's look at NBA or MLB cities without NFL. San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Portland, Orlando. Alabama of Mobile or Birmingham might be a team. Chicago is too big for just one NFL Team, so Chicago. That makes 8 cities right there. The NFL has created a market in London and Mexico City that a new league could steal by actually putting teams there for those cities to become FANS of. A State like Iowa or Kansas may need a team, parts of USA the NFL has left out, but great college sports states. They would need something New York or in area. Perhaps Connecticut or with Jets and Giants in New Jersey, maybe a team in Bronx or Brooklyn.
Off hand I see San Diego, Oakland, St Louis, Chicago, Bronx or Brooklyn, a team in Texas and that's 6 teams right there. Maybe start out with 8 or 10 as AFL started with just a few teams. Less teams, the league needs less quarterbacks and such. A new league could easily find 8 starting quarterbacks. Actually the NFL has too many good players on offense and defense not getting playing time. When given a chance in NFL, they do good. Look at QBs Vikings and Eagles have used due to injuries.
So an 8 or 10 team league in 2020 that has teams in cities NFL left in St Louis, San Diego, Oakland. Chicago and in Brooklyn or Bronx. Texas, maybe San Antonio. Oklahoma City, Portland makes 8. Alabama makes 9. For 10 do you go London or Orlando or Iowa or Kansas or get one of richest men in world in Mexico City as an owner to put huge money into new league. The richer the owners, the more they can bring football to where NFL isn't, except Chicago and New York areas that for TV new league needs. San Diego and Oakland covers LA area with LA loaded with teams now.
If done right, it could be an exciting new league. If Bengals ever leave Cincinnati, Cincy may not get another NFL team but a new league team is possible. Same with any city NFL leaves, the new league could move right in. I can see St Louis, San Diego, Oakland getting behind their new teams. St Louis vs Chicago or Brooklyn good match ups. With 8 or 10 teams you don't even need an East and a West at first. Just have the top teams in a Championship and here is where you need a major Network such as ABC. I think ABC very much in with Disney Productions, so a team in Orlando at first might get ABC Disney on board. A team in London could get new league on BBC as well as a USA Network.
With the NFL leaving cities, and each week we see that bench players can star in the NFL, there is a need for a new league. There are super rich out there wanting to be owners the NFL has passed over. It is simply supply and demand. The NFL can not supply the demand and it's more than time for a new league. If done right, this could be as big as AFL in 1960's was, which we now call the AFC. There is also a major NFL vs Players Union Strike coming around 2020 that could give a new league amazing TV ratings and players jumping over if CBS and FOX NFL games suffer a strike.
1968 Bengal Fan
