The XFL isn’t the only football league launching in 2020. The Freedom Football League will reportedly start up in March 2020. Ricky Williams and Terrell Owens are a few of the founders.
Check it out for yourself: FFL | Freedom Football League
How long do you give it?
Given that their website says they’re looking for investors, my guess is “never.”
I’m still pretty sure it is.
well the this years new football league the AAF just folded today I don’t give this one much hope if it ever happens ……
McMahon has millions that he could blow and if needed can get more loaned to him plus networks will take him seriously even if his last XFL attempt flopped …… I don’t see these guys getting anywhere in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the players in the AAU haven’t gotten calls already ….
Upstart pro football leagues NEVER work. The last one that did was the AFL, and this was before the NFL was a 20+ team league. Everything I watch the AAF, is incomplete pass after incomplete pass and stuffed run after stuffed run. It sucks.
The WFL, USFL, WLAF, XFL, UFL . . . . even Arena football is all but dead. Total waste of time and money.
The only way minor league football will ever work is if each NFL team nurtures a “farm team” like in the NHL and MLB, but NFL owners are too cheap to do this and talent can be had on the cheap as free agents anyway.
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What a friggin joke. At least most of the other leagues I mentioned finished their seasons!
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If now were the time for a new football league to succeed, then surely the AAF would have done it? You’d think they’d at least wait a few years to be able to pretend that circumstances have changed in some nebulous way.
The only type of football league that’s going to be able to have any kind of success outside the NFL is an adaptation of pro football, such as the Arena Football League. And even that failed eventually, IIRC.
Wasn’t the AFL was the only one that played in the fall? I still think that was part of the problem with the other leagues, although the USFL’s next season was supposed to be in the fall, had they gotten a court to invalidate, say, ABC’s TV contract with the NFL; the only football people really want to watch outside of the fall is college spring football games.
And even at that, the WFL folded in the middle of its second season. It reminds me of a 1970s sports-themed game show, where one of the questions was, “When the WFL folded in the middle of its second season, who led the league in rushing yards?” (The AAF equivalent is Jhurell Pressley, with 431.)
The AAFC played in the fall from 1946 to 1949 with four complete seasons. It survived in a fashion with he Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49s moving to the NFL. The original Baltimore Colts also came over, but they folded in one year.
The AAFC actually had higher average attendance prior to the “merger”. And the Browns, the four time champions of the AAFC continued their winning ways defeating the NFL champions, the Eagles, in the first game of the season and winning the championship that year. They played in the championship game for 6 straight years and 7 of the first 8 in the NFL.
In addition to the AAFC (as noted by OldGuy), the WFL also was a fall league.
But that was about 70 years ago. The NFL was nowhere near the colossus it is today.
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I’m hearing a whole bunch of lofty rhetoric and big dreams but no concrete objectives or plans. And that should concern any potential owners, because if this is going to stand any chance of being anything other than yet another one-season auger job, the men in charge have to nail that stuff down. Yes, what happened to Colin Kaepernick royally sucked, but the backlash from that isn’t going to power an entire league, much less get the attendance and investor capital required to keep it afloat. Just like the failed XFL, if the game you’re presenting doesn’t deliver on the bottom line, i.e. good football, no amount of message or rebelliousness or gimmickry is going to keep it alive. And Vince McMahon came as close as anyone ever got to pulling that nonsense off.
(Another thing that would help would be to come up with some less cringeworthy team names. “Independence”? “Progress”? “Players”? Seriously? :dubious:)