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Vince McMahon to Target Alienated NFL Fans with 'New XFL'

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by deepest_background, Dec 27, 2017.

  1. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    Only team wearing white is Orlando and that's because it's their only jersey.

    Atlanta with the crown royal purple and Birmingham with the black is going to be difficult.
     
  2. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Vince’s league will get just as paltry ratings as it did the first time and he’ll sell out to the AAF at his first opportunity. Then we’ll have a 16-team AAF (it’ll be AAF AF).
     
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  3. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    A 16-team AAF matches up quite nicely with the 32-team NFL for farm-team purposes.
    Each AAF franchise would have two NFL affiliates with options to bring players up or down between seasons.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Black vs. navy blue or dark charcoal gray will be worse.

    Again, I'm surprised the grand poohbahs of teevee haven't put their foot down about it.

    Hell, didn't the teevee bosses order the Buffalo Bills to switch to red helmets in the 1980s because there were too many white-helmet teams in the AFC East (for a time, all of them) ?
     
  5. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    Actually had more to do with QB Joe Ferguson.

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  6. mpcincal

    mpcincal Well-Known Member

    Memphis has blue jerseys with red sleeves, but in their opener they came out with white jerseys against all-black Birmingham:
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    I have to think if they go to a second season, each team will have another set of jerseys; just make it a 'clash jersey' like they do in European soccer.
     
  7. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

  8. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

  9. HappyCurmudgeon

    HappyCurmudgeon Well-Known Member

    They seem to be focused on getting guys with NFL ties to take care of the personnel side but they couldn't have pulled a few accountants from the league to handle the financial side of things?
     
  10. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    I don't think the NFL teams or the AAF overall benefit from having teams tied together like that. If two NFL teams' 'prospects' fill out one roster, which team's QB plays? Which systems do the teams play? It would be better just to have the NFL teams pick up players at the end of the season. That way an AAF team isn't tied into pleasing two NFL teams with player development and can focus on winning games.
     
  11. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    Two pro franchises running a minor league team isn't an oddity. Many teams in the ECHL had a goalie prospect from each home club and the best players play.
    Of course, this was Level Double-A and not the next tier higher, so it was a bit different, but it's plausible.
     
  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Well, the guys who would be playing AAF would be the current 3rd stringers/ practice squad guys. If the parent NFL team regarded a QB as a real hot prospect, they probably wouldn't send him to the AAF. A QB you sent to the AAF would have to be a guy you thought was 2-3 years away.

    There would definitely be some kinks to work out of the arrangement -- each team might have recall rights to (for instance) 10 guys on the AAF rosters with 20 "unassigned" players becoming free agents at the end of their contracts. It would all have to be hammered out with the NFLPA.

    I'd guess under such an arrangement, team affiliations would be set up so the parent teams would be in opposite conferences/ divisions (ie an NFC East team partnering with an AFC West, etc etc).

    The coaching staff/ GM of each team would be independent, probably hired/fired by the league as present, and would have freedom to make roster moves among the "unaffiliated" players, offensive/ defensive game plans, etc etc, as best they saw fit.

    Each NFL parent franchise would have a coordinator on the AAF coaching staff to oversee the use of their 10 "optioned" players.

    Spikechiquet and the hockey guys probably have more info how it works in hockey. The NBA also has shared affiliations for G-League teams, so obviously it can be worked out.


    Of course all these plans are moot if they don't make payroll next week.
     
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