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Summers is like the MVP of this league. This INT was thrown straight to him.
 
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AAF might fold after this weekend without help from the NFLPA? Just ordered the last size M Commanders hoodie on ebay. :eek:

Comes in handy for a lounging hoodie.
 
Butch said:
AAF might fold after this weekend without help from the NFLPA? Just ordered the last size M Commanders hoodie on ebay. :eek:

Comes in handy for a lounging hoodie.
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The games are mildly entertaining, but the timing is off. The talent isn't there because the money isn't there, like how when the USFL used to steal players from the NFL. The money isn't there because, by and large, most people are football'ed out by the time the Super Bowl comes and goes. March brings "Madness," and April brings baseball, with NHL and NBA playoffs on the horizon.

Doubtful the XFL will fair any better.
 
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I'm actually slightly bummed this isn't working out. I haven't watched very much, but what little I did I enjoyed.
Its a legit minor league for the NFL. The guys that have performed have already elevated their chances a wee bit for NFL summer camps.

The TV coverage has been real strong all things considered.
 
I don’t get it. How did they burn through 250M already? If they actually did that then they don’t deserve to survive.
 
ZooCougar said:
I don’t get it. How did they burn through 250M already? If they actually did that then they don’t deserve to survive.
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They haven’t. It’s Condon who is making the threat. Essentially he is saying Daddy isn’t going to spend the 250.
 
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whaler11 said:
They haven’t. It’s Condon who is making the threat. Essentially he is saying Daddy isn’t going to spend the 250.
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IIRC they are citing lack of cooperation from the NFLPA

Did they get this whole operation going without clearing it up with the NFL that they can be an NFL developmental league?
 
Rocktheworld said:
IIRC they are citing lack of cooperation from the NFLPA

Did they get this whole operation going without clearing it up with the NFL that they can be an NFL developmental league?
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He doesn’t really have a plan. Who are they supposed to give them?
 
whaler11 said:
He doesn’t really have a plan. Who are they supposed to give them?
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I would think practice squad level guys, but then who becomes the practice squad

There are CFL guys

Honestly I thought that they were going to get this up and running quickly with local grassroots talent; I remember rules about teams drafting players who had to have grown up or gone to college in the general area.

I don’t remember them being all about taking guys from the NFL, or why a conflict with the NFLPA was what I remember being cited as the primary reason the league can’t get going
 
Maybe they used the PAC 12 network financial model.

Seriously - I hope they can limp to a season two.
 
Rocktheworld said:
I would think practice squad level guys, but then who becomes the practice squad

There are CFL guys

Honestly I thought that they were going to get this up and running quickly with local grassroots talent; I remember rules about teams drafting players who had to have grown up or gone to college in the general area.

I don’t remember them being all about taking guys from the NFL, or why a conflict with the NFLPA was what I remember being cited as the primary reason the league can’t get going
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There are plenty of veterans in the AAF who are better than practice squad guys.

There isn’t any realistic way for a league that plays an opposite schedule to be a direct development league.... the true development league already plays on Saturday.

If they can’t get enough TV money to support it’s dead because there isn’t any other path to breaking close to even.
 
Might not matter. Owner says he will shut it down unless he gets a player development deal with the NFL. Maybe in a week or two.
 
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The quick rise and fall of this league must have some juicy drama for a book or even a showtime mini series.
 
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