We haven't had an AAF thread in a while.

[patdog]

But looks like the new owner may be about to shut it down before he has to write that $250M check.

Link

 

[fishwater99]

I think he already wrote the check and is now having second thoughts of losing $250M.

 

[patdog]

I bet he hasn't paid all of it yet. Just enough to keep it afloat and pledged the rest. But if he thought they were ever going to use actual signed NFL players in that league, he's an idiot. The NFLPA is absolutely right on this. Young, marginal players would be pressured into playing football almost full time almost year-round.

 

[kired]

Wonder how the rating are now? I haven't watched a game in a month. For me personally, I like the spring weather too much to sit around and watch a football game on TV Saturday or Sunday afternoon.

 

[fishwater99]

Maybe.

A non NFL league will never make it, they never have. It has to part of the NFL to survive, like a minor league of the NFL.
But we already have college football( which is free for the NFL), so it's not going to happen.

 

[vhdawg]

Meanwhile Vince McMahon just cashed out another $250M in WWE stock to put toward his XFL reboot next year.

 

[patdog]

Looks like they drew 600,000 viewers for 3 games last week. For comparison, the soccer friendly between Mexico and Chile drew 800,000.

 

[615 Guy]

Canadian football disagrees with you.

 

[patdog]

The CFL didn't last long in the United States.

 

[mstateglfr]

Looks like they drew 600,000 viewers for 3 games last week. For comparison, the soccer friendly between Mexico and Chile drew 800,000.

This would be a more apt comparison, I would think.

https://footballfoundation.org/news...atings-and-attendance-data.aspx?path=football
The 355 college football telecasts on ABC, beIN Sports, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, FOX, FS1, FS2, NBC and NBCSN during the 2017 regular season averaged 1,942,000 viewers per game