[CBFF] NBR: United Football League

[Kenny Claxton]

I am skeptical myself. If the best you can do on a tv contract is VS., then
your league may as well not be on tv (anyone checkout the NHL ratings on
VS?)

On 5/30/07, Jerry Madsen <jerrywm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's interesting, but between 32 NFL teams and the AFL, it will be a
> pretty watered-down talent pool.  I wonder what the motivation is for
> another league.  History isn't kind to start-up leagues, save the AFL
> and that was when the NFL was smaller and could absorb the teams to
> sustain them.  Hell, if the USFL couldn't fly, ain't nothing going to.
>
> I'm still shocked the XFL isn't still with us!
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On 5/30/07, Phil DeNomme <pdenomme at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Very very interesting.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of mactbone
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:40 PM
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> > Subject: [CBFF] NBR: United Football League
> >
> >
> http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-24-128/Not-Content-Just-Annoying-the-N
> > BA----.html
> > >From a press release about this weekend's PLAY magazine:
> > PLAY: The New York Times Sports Magazine reports in its June 3 issue
> that
> > Wall Streeter Bill Hambrecht and Google executive Tim Armstrong are
> > launching a professional football league to compete with the N.F.L., and
> > have lined up billionaire Mark Cuban as their first team owner.
> >
> > In an exclusive column, Joe Nocera writes that the new United Football
> > League aims to line up seven more owners "with Cuban's deep pockets and
> > contrarian mindset" so that it can debut with eight teams. Right now,
> the
> > league is scheduled to play its first pre-season games in August, 2008.
> >
> > Cuban owns the N.B.A.'s Dallas Mavericks. Undaunted by the monopolistic
> > N.F.L., which has squashed four competitors, he tells Nocera, "There are
> > quite a few good-sized non-N.F.L. cities that can support a pro team."
> So
> > far, the league has picked Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Mexico City. San
> > Antonio and Orlando are among other top markets without N.F.L. teams.
> >
> > According to U.F.L. executives, Nocera reports, the new league will
> emulate
> > the old American Football League -- one of whose major characteristics
> was
> > revenue sharing. Each owner will put up $30 million, worth a
> half-interest
> > in a team; the league will own the other half. Eventually, the plan
> > envisions that fans will become stakeholders - because each team will
> sell
> > shares to the public to raise an average of $60 million per franchise.
> > Public ownership will reduce the pricing pressure on the teams,
> resulting in
> > cheaper tickets all around.
> >
> > Officials are convinced they can land decent players from the get-go,
> and
> > better players later on. "The U.F.L. will be able to offer most rookies,
> who
> > aren't top draft choices, far more money than the N.F.L. would give
> them,"
> > Nocera writes.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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