Mr. WEO

exactly, pretty much the same thing

That was 10 years ago...

nope!

the Master...

What happened to Thurman in those other Super Bowls?? Why isn't anyone talking about that either?? Bring me more threads!!

Already, Ryan Bates is so legendary that Ryan Bates can never really hope to become Ryan Bates.

Without him (prior 3 seasons) they went to 3 straight conf championships, 2 SBs winning one and had the top Offense twice. With him, Mahomes was sacked more times than ever in his career, had his lowest YPG and rating as a starter. In the AFCC game, he was sacked 4 times and under pressure constantly, picked off twice and fumbled..

How much better were they with him last year? Dude is looking at his 3rd team in 3 years…

Do you really think ND students aren't already totally into the NFL? Do you think that if every student or every human in South Bend tuned in there would be a ratings bump? Which team not from Indiana will the students be "going crazy" for? The NHL winter classic had record low ratings last time--and the ratings have steadily dropped since it began 14 years ago. It's a weird gimmick (proportionally tiny rink in the middle of a baseball or football field with fans sitting miles away) that did nothing for the NHL's ratings. TNF is a massive ratings machine: a "low" game gets 12 million, a huge game gets 30 million. Amazon is specifically paying for its huge ratings and ad revenue. Having a game in front of Joe College can't/won't change this. MNF is another ratings juggernaut. Its ratings went even higher, not by some goofy rural college stadium stunt, but by simply adding the Mannings to an alternative broadcast. That was genius.

Lovie Smith was around for 9 years in Chicago. Had a good run. Terrible with Tampa. Short leash for He Jackson?? He went 1-15, followed that with a 0-16....and still was brought back for another season.

I heard it was 77lbs

National TV ratings would be higher if they played games in college stadiums? Locals would be hooked on watching/following out of town NFL teams when they previously had no interest in thin watching NFL games.....because the NFL put on a game once in a nearby college stadium? That's not intuitive...

You moved to a city that had an NBA and went to NBA games and had a new/increased interest as a result. That's not what we are talking about here. Tossing a Knicks or Raptors game per year into KeyBank arena wouldn't create many (if any) new Knicks or Raptors fans in Buffalo..

Clearly lost on you. McMahon could have waited out the pandemic like every sports league in the spring he was competing with. He cashed out. Simple as that. The point about the XFL is that it's got a TV contract--this will make it viable competition for the USFL. They can't split a few hundred thousand viewers a game and survive for long. The Rock doesn't have the cash McMahon did for financing the XFL. Every new spring league was "***** fine"...until it went belly up. So your argument that the XFL, despite not having put a game on yet, is "doing fine" is an excellent point...lol.

He saw the huge financial losses the league had for him. It had no chance to make money. The funniest part of all this is that there will be 2 semipro leagues competing for the tiny number of viewers who watch these games, splitting an already paltry pie. Football viewers in this country have proven that they won't support these league over and over....now there will be two of them at once. Solid business plan! From "the USFL Newsroom"!! This is where they hide the bad news: "as each game averaged around 715k viewers across each respective network." Clearly, they are ignoring the fact that the ratings steadily and significantly declined for all games as the season headed to its end (I posted upstream). The 4 games of week 10 pulled in 239k, 649k, 282k, and 181k viewers. The final game of the season had under 200k. The USFL is proudly comparing itself against other products like MLS in ratings. But MLS makes a huge chunk of its money at the gate. USFL has empty stadiums (even for the home team). And now they will have to share the football nation's very small appetite for "Spring football" with another low level league (both competing for the same retreads and rejects to fill their rosters). Sure, Fox can put a little money into this product on speculation (they list it as an "investment"). When the costs of leaving "the Magic City" to actually play in cities kick in, they will pick a point and cash out. And then there's this inevitable bit of news: "From ESPN: The XFL continued its efforts to counterprogram the USFL’s return to the field by convening a virtual meeting of agents Monday night to pitch them on the league’s plans for 2023 and beyond … The XFL’s top football executives — Marc Ross, Doug Whaley and Russ Giglio — told agents that the XFL would offer higher salaries and better benefits than the USFL. Ross, Whaley and Giglio also suggested that the XFL’s season schedule, which will begin in February and end in May, would be more “advantageous” for players who want to get subsequent consideration from NFL teams. the XFL will have 200 more players employed (eight teams with 70-man rosters; the USFL has 45-man rosters) and promises larger salaries and full housing and meal costs in-season. " Plus the XFL has an official collaboration with the NFL and a 5 year deal with Disney ESPN/ABC.

He was overdraft anyway.

Don't bet that parlay tho.....

Odds this company hangs in there for the 15 year commitment?

Which team would have to play in Alabama "a few years in a row" to generate "natural interest" in this team from somewhere else? Who in Alabama is not already aware enough of the NFL to have an interest? "NFL? Yeah, I don't know---I'd have to see a game in person before I decide to become a regular watcher of their televised games"...said no one. Besides, Alabama's 2021 National Championship drew about as many viewers as the average NFL game on CBS. What would be the point of all this anyway? To bring the NFL more ratings? There's no reason to believe this will boost the king of ratings any higher. Big college football schools are loaded with kids who watch the NFL every sundae---same as every other school in this country.

Clearly, I did not do that. I'm saying the NBA has been sitting players that fans paid full price to see play for some time now. They didn't do so during the NBA's heyday in the 80's-90's.

The NBA has been doing this for years

Bengals vs Jags. Lawrence can relive his 2020Championship game humiliation at the hands of Smoking Joe...

you keep bringing up HS football for some reason, and NCAA basketball. keep going though.. hookers work Friday nights too (i've heard).