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FearlessF

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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2019, 05:45:02 PM »
West Virginny wasn't payin $70 mill
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #29 on: April 02, 2019, 05:48:18 PM »
Pretty sure they pay their coaches in moonshine. 
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2019, 05:53:24 PM »
Quote from: MaximumSam on April 02, 2019, 01:43:02 PM
I find that so weird.  Didn't they sink hundreds of millions of dollars into this?  How did they go under before even getting through a full season?
With pretty hefty (considering) guaranteed contracts, you have to put butts in seats and get eyeballs.  They didn't.  Thanks ESPN!
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2019, 06:32:52 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on April 02, 2019, 05:53:24 PM
With pretty hefty (considering) guaranteed contracts, you have to put butts in seats and get eyeballs.  They didn't.  Thanks ESPN!
They only played 70K this year, non guaranteed. Across the whole league that's about 3 million per week in payroll.  I guess I understand not spending any more money, but when you have already invested 70 million like that one guy did, I'm not seeing how the payoff.  Apparently they broke down because the NFL/NFLPA were moving slowly on allowing the AAF to be a developmental league for the NFL.  But hard for me to say the NFL should be invested in a league that couldn't complete one season.
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2019, 06:42:45 PM »
The XFL was ahead of its time. If they come back with the Good ole fashioned violence intact, people would watch. They could require the players to sign a waiver like MMA fighters, and whatnot.
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #33 on: April 02, 2019, 11:32:10 PM »
with this done, I'm all in on AFL. Let's go Destroyers!
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #34 on: April 03, 2019, 11:08:36 AM »
it's a shame- by my observation there was little cooperation with the league and media- namely ESPN... I'm guessing they're leveraging it to get back in the NFL's good graces? 
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #35 on: April 03, 2019, 01:42:29 PM »
Quote from: MaximumSam on April 02, 2019, 06:32:52 PM
They only played 70K this year, non guaranteed. Across the whole league that's about 3 million per week in payroll.  I guess I understand not spending any more money, but when you have already invested 70 million like that one guy did, I'm not seeing how the payoff.  Apparently they broke down because the NFL/NFLPA were moving slowly on allowing the AAF to be a developmental league for the NFL.  But hard for me to say the NFL should be invested in a league that couldn't complete one season.
I meant that they were 3-year contracts, not one and done.  The promise of 3 years and $210K was hefty to these guys considering their situation.  


Why are the NFL and MLB so against a developmental league with financial support?!?  Minor leaguers make less in a year than they do if they're called up to the majors for a couple of weeks.
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #36 on: April 03, 2019, 02:51:17 PM »
can't say it comes as a surprise. Hard to see something like this succeeding unless the NFL and the TV networks really gets behind it.

My guess is the AAF tv contracts were garbage which paid the teams next to nothing. That's where all the money is. Forget ticket sales. NFL teams would fold too if they had to meet their overheads just out of gate receipts and concession sales.
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #37 on: April 03, 2019, 02:53:10 PM »
Quote from: GopherRock on April 02, 2019, 02:12:50 PM
What I'm seeing is that the owner of the Hurricanes sunk the money into the league solely to buy the gambling app, and he's going to lose ~$70 million in the deal.
Is any app worth that much?
Well Lyft is an app that's parent company just went public and is worth a ridiculous a $25 billion. Uber is going to go public soon and their market cap is expected to be $100-150 billion.
Keep in mind these two apps/companies lose billions of dollars every year and have lost money every single year since their inception and probably never will make money. Crazy times we live in.
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #38 on: May 06, 2019, 10:30:44 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 10, 2019, 05:23:51 PM
I'm wondering how long ESPN is going to ignore it.  No scores or updates or anything, except a preseason primer.  Odd.
Makes more sense now

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26683501/xfl-games-air-espn-abc-fox-properties
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #39 on: May 06, 2019, 01:16:04 PM »
I figured as such, but is that where we're at?  A sports channel ignoring a sport because they're not financially tied to it?  WTF?  
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #40 on: May 06, 2019, 01:18:17 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 06, 2019, 01:16:04 PM
I figured as such, but is that where we're at?  A sports channel ignoring a sport because they're not financially tied to it?  WTF? 
I mean, that much was clear from when ESPN got the NBA, and let NBC take the NHL like 15 years ago
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Re: Alliance of American Football
« Reply #41 on: May 06, 2019, 05:42:02 PM »
Quote from: ELA on May 06, 2019, 01:18:17 PM
I mean, that much was clear from when ESPN got the NBA, and let NBC take the NHL like 15 years ago
Yeah, but ESPN will still show highlights. The NHL is too big to be truly ignored, they just won't emphasize it. 

I think in this case, there was no "pull" from viewers. Nobody cared. And since they didn't own the rights, they certainly weren't going to "push" it. 
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