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It's not real grass either. On top of that gate receipts really don't matter at all. Obviously the optics of an empty stadium are ripe to be mocked, but tickets are 10 dollars and its all GA. They could have zero people attend all year. It's literally all about hitting a minimum threshold of ratings across the year.
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I’m still bummed the AAF turned out to be an elaborate grift to get a gambling app built and never actually had enough money to succeed. It seemed to have some decent momentum (for a spring league) and I actually found the games watchable. Plus it fulfilled our dreams of finally getting to see Hackenberg play professional football, and he was just as dreadful as we knew he would be.
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Birmingham itself absolutely does not lack for places to practice football in a semi-professional environment. Just in the first episode of the "United by Football" show, I saw them practicing at Miles College, Legion Field, Samford University's practice facility, and at Protective Stadium itself. All of those (with the possible exception of Samford, I couldn't tell) were FieldTurf fields, so no wear on the grass. I'm sure they're going to use Birmingham Southern's field, and probably UAB's facility as well. There are multiple -high schools- in the Birmingham area with relatively new FieldTurf fields they could use.
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Play posted:Fox certainly doesn't lack money to fund it if it shows any signs of being successful. Which I honestly thing it will, I feel like football fans have been wanting a spring league for a long long time and it was just lack of financing and lovely luck that prevented the previous couple from succeeding. Didn't Donald Trump personally ruin one of the incarnations of the USFL? Like, the most successful incarnation with Herschel Walker?
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PostNouveau posted:Didn't Donald Trump personally ruin one of the incarnations of the USFL? Like, the most successful incarnation with Herschel Walker? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWxMCLHXkVc Yeah
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Yep. Same person who basically salted the earth for spring football is red state Messiah. Nothing is sacred to them....
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The ESPN app has the xfl but doesn't have the USFL. I didn't even realize they had started this week until I saw something about it online yesterday.
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The athletic posted:Saturday night’s USFL reboot premiere simulcast on Fox and NBC averaged 3.06 million viewers for New Jersey-Birmingham. That's good! The athletic after getting the numbers posted:The USFL game played at 7p.m. ET Monday on FS1 after being bumped from its Sunday night slot because of bad weather, averaged just 268,000 viewers... welp
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oldskool posted:That's good! Does anyone know what FS1's average ratings are? It looks like they normally float around 300K? Comparing TNT to FS1 doesn't really seem fair when it comes to reach.
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I would assume ratings will decline a bit and then mostly level out in week three or four once people watching for the novelty stop and you are just getting real football fans who just want to watch any kind of football. The product in terms of production was pretty good, a few flubs here and there but the gimmicks of having almost everyone including coaches miced up, drone shots, some kind of remote reffing (I didn't see the details) and helmet cams are all pretty unique. Even if the helmet cams made me feel quite ill and didn't work as well as I might've thought. To me those ratings look pretty strong, especially for the first games that were on time and during peak viewing hours. And again, being supported by Fox is huge, Fox airs shows that get way less ratings than that and has plenty of money to throw around if it even seems remotely possible that it could be a success. They are also basically paying the players poverty wages and taking advantage of the idea that this could be their pathway to the NFL (maybe some will fill out rosters here and there but the vast majority have no chance unfortunately), so that definitely helps the bottom line. I actually thought the AAF was the best and most entertaining of all three of these leagues so far. They had the best quarterbacks, several of whom are now backups in the NFL, and the play was exciting. Too bad the entire thing was financially rotten and possibly corrupt. Then the XFL was okay but got murked by covid, you couldn't really expect anything different to happen in that case. USFL seems to have the best chance by far of all of them to succeed. I do hope the play improves though, most of the quarterbacks were pretty terrible in their first outing.
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Fitting there'd be no gdt when theres an actual good game happening lol
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I thought about making one, but couldn't think of a title lol It has been a good game, tho!
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Case Cookus played the majority of a football game but nobody saw it because it was on Peacock
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I think we're getting to the point we do in all these leagues, that the coach no longer trusts any of the QBs so it's ground and pound time baby.
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Alaois posted:Case Cookus played the majority of a football game but nobody saw it because it was on Peacock OTOH Peacock has Columbo episodes.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:OTOH Peacock has Columbo episodes. So does every free streaming service like Tubi
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MacGruber is legitimately very good as a tv series. Go watch it!
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Extremely USFL headline https://www.cbs42.com/sports/usfl/i...e-in-his-mouth/
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its not often you see a football game played on the east coast kick off at 10:20 PM
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In some Fan Controlled Football news TO is traded in a league that redrafts every week: And how can we commemorate this? You guessed it!  quote:The Knight’s owners are clearly excited about adding a Hall of Fame WR to their roster as they prepare to avenge their only loss of the season this weekend. As a team powered by fans who hold one of the unique FCF Ballerz Collective Knights NFTs, they have already welcome TO to their community by incorporating unique Knights Baller #4312 as part of his signing bonus for joining the squad. While the open mint for the Knights Ballerz has sold out, fans wanting to call plays for TO this season can join the party by buying one on OpenSea and then registering in the FCF App for their team. Also there is a team named Bored Ape FC.
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Is it too late to rename the commanders that?
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Terrell Owens' football career will outlive .nfts.
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Anyone even watching this weekend? I was amused because they said while the other team running a QB platoon has designed the offense differently to play towards each QBs strengths, they said Skip Holtz (Birmingham) is running the same offense for both QBs he's platooning with no changes. Edit: Also it does seem that they get a pretty decent crowd in the building when Birmingham plays. At least compared to what I've seen. syzpid fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 15, 2022 |
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syzpid posted:Anyone even watching this weekend? yeah im watchin
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syzpid posted:Anyone even watching this weekend? It looks like the crowd is down today probably partly because it started during church hours (who the gently caress is scheduling this?)
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Raku posted:It looks like the crowd is down today probably partly because it started during church hours (who the gently caress is scheduling this?) They had a later game last week and it didn't exactly seem any more packed than it was today.
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Unless something happens in the next 36 hours, this USFL will have played more games than the XFL did in 2020.
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To be fair XFL 2.0 got nuked by Covid after like week 2. I mean failure is the overwhelmingly most likely outcome for any of these leagues but they really never even had a chance.
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Remember when the AAF just ran out of money
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AAF was the only alternative league that captured my heart. don't know why. i don't even remember if that incredibly violent qb hit came from the aaf. BUt it may as well have. That's the bottom line
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a neat cape posted:Remember when the AAF just ran out of money I feel like this really sells short how wild the ride was with the AAF, even if "ran out of money" was the proximate cause of death. They could make another season of Ballers except it's the AAF and it would be good TV.
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Orlando Apollos was the first team in Florida I liked and rooted for so of course they bit the dust.
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pasaluki posted:Orlando Apollos was the first team in Florida I liked and rooted for so of course they bit the dust. they were the only moral Florida team because of the Spurdog
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a neat cape posted:Remember when the AAF just ran out of money They didn't just run out of money, they never had any money. Their main investor was Reggie Fowler, who is infamous for trying to buy the Vikings as a general partner before he refused to provide any financial details. So he became a limited partner of Wilf, mostly so he wouldn't lose his 20 million deposit. The AAF knew that he was shady, and it only came out after the league shut down that he was even involved. They purposely tried to keep other investors from finding out that Fowler was involved. Fowler pulled out after the first week of the season, which was why they sold to Dundon, who eventually shut down the league because apparently all he wanted was the gambling app they had created. Fowler is going to jail for a bunch of shady crypto dealings, and oh yea having counterfeit money in his office.
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Lachlan Mudroch says that Fox Corporation will sell individual teams to investors in "five to seven years", which makes sense - if the USFL lasts that long, it's worth something.
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Edward Mass posted:Lachlan Mudroch says that Fox Corporation will sell individual teams to investors in "five to seven years", which makes sense - if the USFL lasts that long, it's worth something. I think the USFL does two seasons (this one and next) and it folds. They're super stressed internally about the XFL.
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First overall pick in the draft Shea Patterson https://twitter.com/USFLPanthers/status/1529637291035004928
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Chris James 2 posted:First overall pick in the draft Shea Patterson As soon as they picked him I knew they were going to suck.
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soggybagel posted:It's not real grass either. Yeah, I read an interview months ago in the lead up to launch that USFL 2.0 is a straight up content play. Attendance would be a nice bonus, but they don't really care about that part. The vibe here in Birmingham though has been a lot of, "let's see if this thing even makes it to its own playoffs." Since the World Games are starting in Birmingham fairly soon, the top-4 teams in USFL will relocate to Canton Ohio for a couple of weeks to do the playoffs and championship. Barring the current bottom-4 teams actually finding a pulse, that should be 1. Birmingham, 2. New Orleans, 3. New Jersey and either Philadelphia/Tampa Bay at #4.
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