# Yet ANOTHER Alternate Football League Announced

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 20, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890 "2018-03-20T15:23:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890/1 "2018-03-20T15:23:31Z")

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[By Charlie Ebersol and random NFLers](http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22844453/xfl-documentary-maker-plans-own-football-league)

I doubt this one will fare any better than the XFL will. Then again, call me a hypocrite cuz if Orlando lands a team…I’m prolly gonna go to the games.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890/2 "2018-03-20T17:17:47Z")

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> “I think where businesses like this fail is that they expect to have ludicrous and unrealistic ticket and media deal projections in Year 1,” Ebersol said. “Our investors here understand that it’s a seven-to-10-year plan.”

Or six to nine years after it’s death.

I wish these leagues were publicly traded and I’d become a rich man.

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890/3 "2018-03-20T17:26:08Z")

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[The Orlando XFL and AFL teams would have to share Tebow.](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/open-mike/os-sp-xfl-tebow-orlando-mcmahon-20180125-story.html)

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890/4 "2018-03-20T17:58:18Z")

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I understand the league commissioner is some guy named Max Bialystock.

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890/5 "2018-03-20T18:18:30Z")

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Someone tell Donald Trump about this [amazing investment opportunity](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a41135/donald-trump-usfl/), now!

Stranger

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-alternate-football-league-announced/810890/6 "2018-03-20T22:51:07Z")

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Two leagues competing for players that weren’t good enough to make it in the NFL sounds like a recipe for disaster.