Haslett, Green, Fassell, Cottrell to coach in UFL

'Tis a pity that TV execs forgot about XFL ratings.

 

it's F-A-S-S-E-L, dammit!! FASSEL!!!

 

The AFL worked pretty well in the 60s and the AAFC did OK in the 40s.

 

what the L?

 

Sounds like the worst law firm in creation.

Fledgling football league? When does Birmingham get its invite? Every Birmingham pro football franchise should be named Birmingham Fail.

 

All four coaches are superior to Tom Cable.

 

You realise that this is just the CFL's way of invading the U.S. again, right?

Vive le Shreveport Pirates!

 

I think this thing might work. The NFL needs a D-league since NFL Europe went away, and Arena Football proved (for a time, anyway) that there's a niche for a lower league. CFL doesn't serve that purpose since its players generally stay in the CFL.

I do agree, though, it should have waited a year so it could field more teams and find a more sound financial footing.

 

I love this kind of news because it illuminates, once again, the stupidity of certain folks.
first of all, there's our economic situation.....duhhh...wouldn't that be a simple "red flag" that trying anything of this sort is an act of futility?
then let's study our history books just a bit:
USFL.
WFL.
Aren't I missing another upstart league or two that went into the tank?
Then there's this other deal: don't we have enough pro sports going on that, regardless of how you might try and keep it from conflicting or overlapping with something else (or trying something innovative), the attention and interest span of John Q. Public is already maxed out?

 

Hockeybeat...thanks...damn it, I knew I had left out the XFL as another league that bombed.
case closed.

 

There was also the World League of American Football, which was hemorrhaging money before it folded all the U.S. franchises, thus making it NFL Europe.

And the CFL also tried to expand to America in 1995, with teams in Birmingham, Shreveport, Las Vegas and Baltimore (the CFL Colts). That lasted one year.