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they went about this all wrong
I just don't understand this.... What did Condon think was going to happen!! ... People were starting to show up to the games...
the nfl was never going to help
and if you ask me they started the season too early the weather was bad for ALL the games
they should have started right after march maddness
It really looked like it was going to make it...
Why the AAF was always doomed to fail
It does not take a Wharton graduate to surmise that if (and probably when) the Alliance of American Football folds, it will be due to a lack of money. Whether that means the founders didn’t have enough to begin with or failed to develop a sufficient revenue stream won’t really matter. The league received a $250 million investment 10 daysafter its first game and now, a little over a month later, appears to be teetering on ruin. It’s a mess.
There was, it has become abundantly clear, no long-range financial plan. The idea was to launch a football league (with a few interesting quirks) shortly after the NFL season in possibly under-served cities and see if the momentum carried fans into the new league. It did. For one week.
And now we’re here.
Since there are multiple other alternative football leagues in the works — most notably the XFL’s second act, due to start in February of next year — it makes sense to evaluate where the AAF went wrong.
The NFLPA was never going to help
“Control owner” Tom Dundon, the man who injected that quarter-of-a-billion dollars into the AAF literally one day after the founders claimed the money situation was totally fine for real guys, took to USA TODAY earlier this week to explain that the league would fail if the NFLPA didn’t give it players.
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What?
This concept on the whole makes no sense; it’s as if you opened a restaurant and complained that the established chef next store wouldn’t give you his dishes to sell.
It makes even less sense when you consider that one of the primary narratives surrounding the game of football is that it can cause lasting damage to players (specifically their brains) and should, therefore, be played and practiced in a more careful and contained fashion.
The NFLPA has battled to limit the amount of time its players spend getting hit. That last thing it would agree to is letting any of them hop over to a rival league to play another season.
The NFL was never going to help, either
Dundon, who, again, became the head of the new league after the league had started, says he sees the AAF as a development league for the NFL.
This, again, makes no sense whatsoever.
If the NFL wanted to run a development league, it would do so under its own auspice so that it could control revenue. The only reason it doesn’t have such a league is because college football functions as one, and the players there have almost no rights and are not compensated in a way that is remotely fair, thus priming them to enter an NFL machine that will lavish them with phony contracts that aren’t guaranteed before spitting them out in a few years when they aren’t as effective.
When your development league prepares players both physically and mentally (to be subservient and “appreciate the opportunity” to play the game), it’s the best of both worlds!
Besides, the NFL doesn’t need a development league that plays this time of year. It has already wrested attention from average sports fans for the months of February, March and April thanks to the combine, free agency and draft. The NFL definitely aspires to be a year-round product, but this isn’t the weak part of the calendar.
Most football players are mostly anonymous
The average NFL fan can name maybe 10 to 15 players on his or her favorite team, and that’s out of a 53-man roster. The last 25 players on any given NFL team certainly make decent money by any standard and are no doubt important to winning games but they aren’t well known. We barely watch preseason NFL games, which do feature star players (albeit briefly) but are largely used to sort out which fringe players remain. So if you’re making an entire league out of the tier below them you’re going to lack name recognition.
And the guys in a new league who do resonate with fans will often do so for the wrong reason: Johnny Manziel is the AAF’s latest star(though he didn’t even finish out his first game), but only because he failed out of the NFL and then got kicked out of the CFL. Earlier in the year former Penn State star Christian Hackenberg made plenty of news — but only because he was so bad at football that he began swearing a lot even though he was wearing a mic.
Yes, there’s the chance for redemption stories or even unfathomable ones, like when Kurt Warner went from arena football to one of the best players in the NFL, but you can’t build a league around the idea that such a thing might happen. You need players worth watching right now.
The Big 3 concept worked in basketball because there are enough former (and legit) NBA players still willing to play the game and able to do so in a fashion somewhat reminiscent of their heydays. Team them with exciting fringe talent who could ascend to the NBA and you have yourself a league.
Most recognizable NFL players who leave the league do so because their bodies tell them to leave the game entirely.
The pay is lousy
And even if they were inclined to try to keep playing they wouldn’t do it for $250,000 over three years.
Not that $75,000 per year should be laughed at, of course. But for many, many players it’s not going to be worth it to play such a dangerous game for a middle-class salary and the remote chance of working toward the NFL. They’re better off trying to use (or finish) their degree, or to get into the game as a coach somewhere to carve out a longer, more stable career.
So, can the XFL avoid these issues and thrive?
Probably not, but at least the XFL has Vince McMahon, who is inarguably one of the greatest showmen in the history of the country. The XFL will be showy and bawdy and messy in ways that guarantee its run in the spotlight will last longer than a week.
And while television networks crave live content more than ever before, there’s too many top-level sports — from March Madness to playoff chases in the NBA and NHL, to the aforementioned NFL (manufactured) events to MLS and MLB starting their seasons — happening this time of year to warrant the sort of payouts that would be needed to make a second football league sustainable.
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/03/alliance-of-american-football-fail
great fucking break down
what makes the NFL king is also what makes it impossible for other franchises to duplicate
most of what im hearing on radio here in town is that it started at the wrong time. it should have been a spring league... .let people miss football for a whileI think they were trying to put themselves in a position where the Season ended before the Draft... when the second wave of free agency hits... Players on the Alliance had the ability to leave at any time for the NFL
and typically.. teams are most active filling the bottom half of the roster after the Draft. It would also allow people to heal up prior to NFL training camps.
It made sense to start it when they did..
Plus... the period after the Superbowl is the black period for football fans...
most of what im hearing on radio here in town is that it started at the wrong time. it should have been a spring league... .let people miss football for a while
Damnit!!!! Was planning on taking my son to the Apollos game on Saturday.
that's just the thing stop trying to compete with the nflI can agree with that.... I do think that they really were trying to play it out to give players a chance to make training camps healthy.. they were all about getting Kats back in the league..
You can’t really do that with a spring league unless you are trying to straight compete with the NFl.... like the USFL..
Vince is following a similar model.. his league will also start in February.
that's just the thing stop trying to compete with the nfl
do a spring league.. make it the best you can..and if a few player jump to the nfl on their own so be it
1000's of football players don't make it to the NFL this could have been for them.
Anybody with any business sense knew the league would lose money the first couple of years. But it’s the long term that makes the niche work. It’s right in a football dead zone. You got the talent available. It goes to show these folks were not try to run a league, but get a quick flip.Man I just don't get it...
Out of all of the Semi-Pro leagues that I've seen... this was the first one in awhile.. Where it appeared that people gave a shit about.
TNT was moving games off Bleacher to the network..
Same as CBS...
Like I don't get Condon at all on this...
You knew the league was going to lose money that first year.. There was no way that it was going to make a profit..
But it was building goodwill with the fans.... At least finish out the Season and the Championship... Then evaluate after..
In my mind I feel like he Mislead the Co-Founders
As for the XFL..
If I were Vince... I'd buy up the Alliance shit and merge it with the Xfl and have the same people running the TV production side for the alliance in the XFL..
The On the field product was legit...
Yeah said this shit was going to flop the start, but people wanted to look at first week ratings as if people would continue to watch.
Any person who is serious about starting a football league in the spring needs to have the capital to fund it for up to 5 years.
Anybody with any business sense knew the league would lose money the first couple of years. But it’s the long term that makes the niche work. It’s right in a football dead zone. You got the talent available. It goes to show these folks were not try to run a league, but get a quick flip.
Total nonsense
I was a casual fan, it was good enough football for a boring Sunday afternoon in the winter/spring when your basketball team is far out of contention.
Man I just don't get it...
Out of all of the Semi-Pro leagues that I've seen... this was the first one in awhile.. Where it appeared that people gave a shit about.
TNT was moving games off Bleacher to the network..
Same as CBS...
Like I don't get Condon at all on this...
You knew the league was going to lose money that first year.. There was no way that it was going to make a profit..
But it was building goodwill with the fans.... At least finish out the Season and the Championship... Then evaluate after..
In my mind I feel like he Mislead the Co-Founders
As for the XFL..
If I were Vince... I'd buy up the Alliance shit and merge it with the Xfl and have the same people running the TV production side for the alliance in the XFL..
The On the field product was legit...