[CBFF] NBR: United Football League

[Kenny Claxton]

The USFL was just a bunch of rich guys with no idea what they were doing. I
remeber Dan Jiggets telling the story of one of USFL teams he played for the
owner bounced checks on them and eventually the team/league had to have a
truck show up on payday to pay the players.

On 5/30/07, mactbone <mactbone0 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It doesn't really matter if the league survives or not - competition for
> the NFL usually provides impetus to improve the product. The AFL and USFL
> clearly did that.
> -chris
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kenny Claxton <kenny.claxton at gmail.com>
> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:25:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [CBFF] NBR: United Football League
>
>
> 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-----
> > > From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> > > [mailto:cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of mactbone
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:40 PM
> > > To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> > > 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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