I’m thinking that this will be the final season for the UFL, they moved they Gades to Frisco.Embarrassing to say the least.
>>151241622Well, a league can't exist with one team drawing 30,000 a game and everyone else not drawing.
Why do they keep trying puke green as a color for these teams?
>>151241781>rebranding the RoughnecksAre we fucking serious?
>>151241787The USFL guys were uncomfrotable at the lack of reg teams after half of theirs collapsed.
>>151241794No surprise, the XFL portion hard carries the league
>>151241781wait where did the Rock's stolen original roughnecks go? Who took the brahmas?
>>151241806This. XFL and USFL should have never merged. XFL would have grown on its own while USFL would have died off. That said I blame Dwyane Johnson's "leadership". Soon after he took over the reigns from Vince we were already seeing the soul leaving the league, but the USFL merger just expedited it.
>Dragons got shelved during the merger>Immediately stop giving a fuck
>>151242566Brahmas folded because the Alamodome guys don't give a fuck. Writing was on the wall when they couldn't even do 5 games last year.
>>151241622I went to one Renegades game last year, it was good but the stadium was maybe at 40% capacity and most people moved to the half of the stadium with shade towards the end of the game. I get moving the team to a smaller stadium to save money, but I don't know how well they'll do in a town full of indians who only watch cricket.>>151241781They should have made one of the new teams a New York team. If the Renegades are the one team that draws a crowd that >>151241718 alludes to, a team there would have worked out great since most Renegades fans are just ex-Cowboys fans looking for a local team that can actually play properly.>>151242634My guess is they saw absorbing USFL's viewerbase as a quick way to grow the XFL, which is crazy when you consider that they were thinking this looking at a league that played every one of their games out of Birmingham.
>>151242769The only team that draws a crowd is St. Louis. DC too to a lesser extent.
>>151242786They're hungry for a team after losing the Rams to Los Angeles, makes sense
>>151242848That was definitely a big part of it, there was also a lot of good local marketing back in 2020 and a lot of genuine fan growth that happened naturally. In jokes became rituals, things like that.
Thoughts?
>>151242848Meanwhile SoFi was 80% red this past Thursday.
>>151242910Why is that the name and color for Louisville? They couldn't have call them maybe the Knights of something and used the horse to symbolize a chess piece? Of those though, Orlando Storm is my favorite one.
>>151241622wtf that's my soccer teamI was wondering why last weekend there were football lines faded in the grass, I just figured they hosted some high school game or something
>>151243025Also our stadium is at half capacity due to renovations with an entire side closed off and that won't be completely done until 2027, so it barely has a max capacity right now of 10k
>>151242910My RENEGADES Bandits are back!
At least FC Dallas of Major League Soccer isn't having its stadium desecrated by a team from the racist and cursed NFL.Which of the UFL teams is already living under the shadow of the most successful, most popular, most successful, and most relevant MLS soccer team from the same city/state?
Looks like the Brahams are out. Roughnecks got renamed to Gamblers. Also according to the UFL, the Dallas Renegades are actually in Frisco. They are just going to be call "Dallas Renegades".
Why the fuck did they rebrand the Roughnecks? Gambling isn’t even legal in Texas and Roughnecks paid homage to oil riggers which is very texas. Covid killing the XFL is one of the biggest what-ifs in recent sports memory.
>>151241781>my panthers finally aren't shit>they axe themWell I'm done. They had a great power vacuum when they started up a few years ago, they would have been extremely popular if they actually played games here the 1st season and were good because Detroit would have taken any football team that wasn't shit. Instead the Panthers were one of the worst teams in the league for like 2 years and you couldn't even hand out tickets. They started getting a bit of a following last year and the year before and all for nothing, just wasted time.
>>151242910>AviatorsLooks nice, good name, can work>KingsTHE LOUISVILLE DRAFT KINGS SPONSORED BY FANDUEL>StormOrange and purple looks awful but maybe it will work like the Apollos did. Though I think that was more a blue.
>>151243292Even if they played there as early as possible they were going to move, Ford Field was charging millions for general use. They're probably back in a few years with the soccer stadium opening.
>>151242760Wait so just the stadium stopped hosting the team? Or the team just stopped showing up?
>>151243397The reason teams left is because it's too expensive. So that's why they went to towns with soccer stadiums (Except the Battlehawks). Which looks better on TV anyway.
>>151241622League was always going to fail, it's ran by a bunch of football marks who don't understand sports as a business model and entertainment product for normies. The XFL, under Vince, while it didn't grasp fully the way you need to present football, Vince understood you were selling entertainment. That's why the XFL did so well compared to other shit. He just went over the top and too much like wrestling. But no one actually gives a fuck about football as a sport in and of itself. Even though the NFL does have high level analysis and mentions the complex techniques and playcalling going on, never once has anyone ever heard in a bar or on a game thread on /sp>Golly gee that reach block was nice>Lamar Jackson is struggling against the cover 3 man under today huh.Some fans keep track of stats for fantasy football but they ain't stat nerds like baseball marks are, people who will sit there and look at stat line and make comments with no other outside need to enjoy the stats in and of themselves like fantasy football where the stats matter. If a drunk retard didn't have money or bragging rights tied up in knowing how the exact catches or rushing yards a player had they wouldn't give a fuck. Like it would be incidental a Boston white trash drunkard would know Tom Brady threw for X yards or completions. Stat that they remembered to then go and participate in the brand tribalism the NFL has instilled so well in the American public.>Yeah bro Tom went 450 yards TDs. He's the goat. Your team couldn't do shit.Football doesn't have enough of a niche fanbase to support a minor league. The masses have the NFL,CFB, and local highschool football that fulfills the American mainstream entertainment and cultural appetite for football.The reason the NFL hasn't really tried to even monopoly man evil tactics against them is because they hear Dwayne The Cuck Johnson talk about the league and know these retards think they are selling football. 1/2
>>151243518Football, as in the game itself, is popular and not the drama, brand identities, and media around it.
>>151243051>it barely has a max capacity right now of 10kThat's just over the average Renegades game attendance from what I've seen
>>151243397The Stadium basically refused to hold dates for the team and would rather put literally anything else in there than the brahmas.
>>151243518>The masses have the NFL,CFB, and local highschool football that fulfills the American mainstream entertainment and cultural appetite for footballI used to wonder why the NFL, despite handegg's immense popularity in the US, didn't have some secondary league under it like how the Premiere League has EFL and the NHL has the AHL. Then I realized that that's basically what college ball is for. People will even hype up college ball athletes signing with NFL teams like how people hype up potential players in development leagues advancing to a pro league; college ball is always presented like its own thing but it's very much NFL's de facto development league. So when the XFL tried to position itself as something players graduate into the NFL out of (which they were doing for a while), they didn't realize they're competing with the deeply entrenched NCAA system for that position.
>>151243747>So when the XFL tried to position itself as something players graduate into the NFL out of (which they were doing for a while), they didn't realize they're competing with the deeply entrenched NCAA system for that position.They absolutely did realize it. The 2020 XFL tried to appeal to college players by giving them contracts, like Kenny Robinson. It just didn't last long enough, then NIL would have crippled that source of players.
>>151241781these are the most dogshit generic logos ive ever seen. like something out of a Create-a-Team from a sports game from 20 years ago
>>151243747They did in the 80s to 2007, NFL Europe/WLAF. Did piss poor ratings and lost money. Not even the NFL could supplant college football with a minor secondary league. It's just not possible with the way fans engage with the product and derive entertainment from it. People identify with the teams/franchise and attach their personal worth and ego to it. Then the NFL does a better job than any other sport in the world and possibly all of human history to educate, dramatize, and attach emotional weight to the players and a game. The secondary league that does so is college football. Any new league will have to try to establish why people should give a shit about their teams and the market space is filled. Even cities that get a minor league football team don't really consider it a replacement for the NFL team, doesn't feel the same. Building a brand that makes normies feel like they are apart of something takes decades on the scale a minor league sports team needs. Then they have to convince you their small scale version of it is just as worthy of your time and attention. But the NFL has college football. So now a league has to get people to give a shit about what isn't a secondary league but third place. Proper Football(soccer) had the farm/promote system from the beginning and educated it's fans and ingrained the franchise loyalty to begin with. That's the business side, the actual game, American Football is also largely a game of physical talent and mental capacity. The fanbase of football might not fully grasp it but they know that some randos who couldn't make it in the NFL or even CFB as a top star are just scrubs. Their isn't really as much of a skill gap in baseball where a guy needs to work on his swing. Yeah players need to work on learning a scheme/technique but the difference is athletic ability. The only other game with as much of a literal physical attribute is success is basketball. If you are 7 ft tall you can probably make a NBA team.
>>151244028Also just somewhat related, to my last point. The skill/knowledge part and athletic gap to play NFL football are why you have some coaches that look like reddit memes. These guys played some college ball and were able to understand and execute the game with, and I'm not using this term as a meme, High Football IQ. But having complex playcalling and understanding timing of plays can't make up for being a 5'9 skinnyfat.
How did the UFL tryout in Switzerland go?
>>151243635It looks really bad on TV because half the stadium is tarped off, and at least for FCD games it's the side on the opposite side of the camera. It looks like no one is there lmao
>>151243747>they didn't realize they're competing with the deeply entrenched NCAA system for that position.That's exactly why when they Rock bought the League they pivoted to a "Player 54" system, aka the Spring League is for players that were cut or not picked so they could get some tape to send to NFL. Essentially becoming the defacto developmental league outside the school system.
>>151243292>people don't support the team>wtf why did they leave?!
If Louisville actually shows up, it should look good on TV.
