What's it going to take to get these Spring Football Leagues to have success?

[joevol33]

, I was aiming to trigger, but not you

I will add though, I wasn't kidding about Maci, she's a very attractive lady

 

[Vol423]

If the NFL was smart they would affiliate with a combined USFL/XFL and bear some of the player costs. As I said earlier use it as a farm system for payers on the bubble of making a practice squad, let those players develop and also give HS kids who can't make it into or don't want to got to college an option.

I like spring football but unless they affiliate with the NFL I don't see either league surviving.

I think that's absolutely ridiculous. The NFL doesn't need a farm system. It already has one: college football. Why would the NFL want to absorb significant costs for a product that has proved over and over again to be a failure, when they already have their farm system in place and payed for by the universities?

 

[Fightmaker]

Totally agree. Over saturation. It is a mediocre product. It’s still football so some of us will tune in, but you’re right. We’re not choosing it over March Madness, and most of us aren’t skipping baseball, MLB or NCAA, just to watch. It’s a waste of time from a consumer standpoint. Which is unfortunate for the guys who are getting a shot to play post college and loving it. It is what it is.

I’m not entirely sure that the NFL could tangle with March madness if push came to shove.

 

[scooty_vol]

Totally agree. Over saturation. It is a mediocre product. It’s still football so some of us will tune in, but you’re right. We’re not choosing it over March Madness, and most of us aren’t skipping baseball, MLB or NCAA, just to watch. It’s a waste of time from a consumer standpoint. Which is unfortunate for the guys who are getting a shot to play post college and loving it. It is what it is.

Football has always been a fall sport, that feeling of crispness in the air. It's just a special time of the year.

 

[OldandStillaVol]

I think televised sports is a little like music in that since the 70's-80's, there has been so much fragmentation that its impossible for one sport or genre of music to predominate. I just question whether there is a market anymore for 'minor league' Spring football. People have so many options for viewing or attending sporting events.