dikk Ebersol's son to launch rival football league a year before the XFL and Hoegan's friend fundin

[Jmare007]

There's plenty of players. What every alternative football league has lacked is a genuine incentive to watch non-elite football. If this league is packaged and actually delivers on being the most viewer friendly and involving league ever there is something cooking here. Every major sports league is so old school in thought (and so bogged down in advertising and rights deals that real big ideas in availability are limited) that there is room for a league that really embraces and explores current connectivity to work.

Games streaming free is already huge. What league is there not behind a pay wall of any sort?

I just don't believe enough people are willing to watch non-elite football no matter how it is presented to them. Hell, they wont do it for almost any non-elite sports, a niche one as american football has less chance imo.

This league might have the right intentions behind it but it'll probably die quickly and it's best ideas will be absorbed one way or the other by the NFL and/or college.

 

[MightyHealthy]

Did anyone read the actual details?

This is very well thought out, particularly in terms of fan engagement. Free games via an app, an integrated fantasy element with real prizes, shorter play clock, in game ads so fewer commercials...they're really onto something here. Also coming off the rip with a focus on player safety, and plans and systems for player well-being (financial and educational) during and after playing years.

It's basically looking at all the thing ACTUALLY wrong with football and addressing them

That's the biggest takeaway I got from this.

 

[concise]

Just like in @TheGreatShowtime's Moolah thread, there's a lesson to be learned here.

You can't trust the sons of dr.yakub, even if you are a yakubian yourself

Stone Cold taught us a long time ago. DTA.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Damn... worked vince something fierce. Wow.

 

[L68]

Big win for AAF, as new football league posts better ratings than Rockets-Thunder

Frank Schwab
Yahoo SportsFebruary 10, 2019, 5:45 PM GMT

The Alliance of American Football, a league most people probably couldn’t name one team from before this week, debuted on Saturday night. Its debut, with two games on CBS, was up against a great NBA matchup between James Harden’s Houston Rocketsand Russell Westbrook’s Oklahoma City Thunder on ABC, a fantastic game that ended with a comeback Thunder win.


And the AAF posted better television ratings.

That’s a heck of a victory for the new football league, which generally played to positive reviews in its opening week.

AAF gets big television ratings win
Darren Rovell of the Action Network reported that, according to his sources, the AAF did a 2.1 overnight rating while a marquee NBA matchup between the league’s last two MVPs did 2.0.

There are plenty of caveats to a one-night win like that. There was certainly more curiosity about the AAF than a regular-season NBA game. Other startup football leagues like the USFL and XFL did fantastic ratings right away, and then those fizzled quickly. It’s not like the AAF is going to routinely outdraw the NBA.

But it’s a clear victory for the new league. Social media reaction to the games — San Diego Fleet vs. San Antonio Commanders, Atlanta Legends vs. Orlando Apollos — was mostly positive. Complaining about anything and everything is the easiest thing to find in 2019, yet a new football league of mostly castoffs was received well.

What does this mean for the AAF?
The challenge for the AAF will be to keep the good times rolling. Ratings will be harder when the games are on CBS Sports Network and not CBS in primetime. The novelty is great, but compelling football will be what keeps people engaged long term.

But you have to start somewhere, and the start for the AAF is a clear win. It’s more proof that football, no matter what name it is under, rules the American sports landscape.



Yahoo is now part of Oath

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Didnt even know this started already

 

[L68]

Didnt even know this started already

Theres a game on cbs sports right now and one on nfl network later

 

[prophecypro]

It started already?

And did better ratings than a prime NBA game on national TV with star players???



I made this thread and had no idea

 

[TL15]

I watched the game last night (I woefully rooted for San Diego and they let me down just like the Chargers did )

But the quality was decent. It's definitely a good "farm league" for guys to show off their talent and get an NFL look. The announcers KEPT hyping up the San Antonio runningback because he was a 1000 yard rusher for Minnesota and they wanted to ride the wave off of his legitimacy

overall though, 90% of what I saw is a bunch of guys who just aren't NFL quality (but they haven't had much practice together admittedly ) It was definitely "watchable" in the same sense that a college basketball or football game between two decent teams with no rooting interest would be. I'd watch again and I think it'll do well with America's endless lust of football.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Got this out faster than XFL.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

WCW was considering starting a football league and offered dikk Butkis seven figures to coach the nWo Wolfpac themed team, but Van Hammer told him to hold out for more.