Mr. WEO

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).

You lost me. The topic of this conversation is moving a single NFL game (the SB to be specific) to Saturday, from Sunday.

Imagine if he won last year??

Being a bit (a tiny bit!) facetious there... The ratings for those pre-March Madness/Conference Champ games are negligible compared to any NFL game: CBS averaged 1.25 million viewers ESPN 928,000 Fox 858,000 The top game of the regular season was Duke-UNC (K's last reg season game) at 4 million. Only 8 games in the totality of televised NCAA basketball last season had over 2 million viewers. Not many people are watching college ball in this country in February. The SB would steal most of that paltry number--certainly nothing that the NFL would consider if they wanted to switch the SB to saturday.

We are talking about TV ratings, not how many people are present watching the game in the arena. There is no HS or college football in February. The SB would squash any random basketball conference games. You know this and so does the NFL. Why pretend otherwise.

someone's gotta keep that whirlpool going...

If no SB appearance, he can't win. His team is loaded and he imploded last season in the final game.

why would the NFL care about NCAA basketball? Also, only gambling addicts are watching a slate of NCAA games before conference championships or March Madness.

no one stays up for those.

SB on Saturday. Give away tickets to kids who can't afford them. The rest of the ideas are pretty dumb. Playing in a college stadium to lure college ball fans (who won't watch the NFL??)---and yet these uninterested people ("107,000 of them") would fill the biggest stadiums in the country! lol. Have "the NFL" (i. e. "the owners") pick some other owner's GM? I'm sure they would be very helpful! Would that include only owners who have a history of picking good GMs? What struggling team's owner wants Jimmy Haslam chiming in with GM suggestions? Or Woody Johnson? Top seeds pick your opponent? I would pick the Cowboys every time... These were the "Top 30"? I want to see the bottom 30 then.

This is the 3rd time we've said "hello" to the XFL.. Why didn't McMahon just wait it out, come back the next season after we said "goodbye pandemic"?

I tried to help the guy (by telling him my experience with melanoma), but he was already off the rails.

If their QB or RB is out, they are done.

You must have missed, while checking, the part where McMahon cashed out of the XFL after 5 games. He could have just restarted after the pandemic (like every other pro league did). Instead, the league went bankrupt. Another fool with his money has bought the league.

So he held onto the ball too long in the SF game with Adams in the lineup...and without Adams in the lineup, he will hold onto the ball to long?