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Do you support this?

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19 votes were received.

Yes	12		63%
No	7		37%

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As a developmental league for the NFL. Good I say.

Enough all ready. Just noise pollution...

Why? An officially sanctioned and supported minor league for the NFL where players could go for developmental purposes is a great idea, IMHO...that would allow undrafted guys or guys on the bubble to improve thier skills before moving to an NFL team.

It could also elliminate the need for practice squads. It also allows fans and teams an easy means for keepig tabs on development in real games. This would help guys like Pat Devlin, not to mention the increased revenue and TV exposure.

The NFL has needed a farm system for years now, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, heck even NASCAR, F1, Indy Car, the FIM, Supercross, etc. They all have them...why the resistance when it comes to football?

The current College to the Pro's system does a real disservice evey year to quite a lot of players that only need a bit more time and coaching.

The "minor leagues" for the NFL is college.

The other pro leagues never work.

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"When you suck long enough, you get a Hickey"

I like the idea of year round football to fill in that long gap between the SB and the following pre-season. The arena league doesn't really do it for me though I do see a great deal of physical talent in some of those games. The USFL could work with the right format.
Mainly night games would secure an interested following in the sports bars and not interfere with Summer picnics or trips to the beach and would provide an opportunity to the kids that fell through the cracks and didn't get to go to college. Make for some feel good story lines like Curt Warner and that guy that played for Philly that they made the movie about.

IMO, the NFL has been a bit full of itself lately, particularly with respect to putting skirts on its favorite QBs - such as that nancy boy up in Foxboro. A little free market competition would do it some good.

The more football the merrier. Where would we be without the Canadian Football League (Cameron Wake)?

Aqua&Orange Wrote:
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> The "minor leagues" for the NFL is college.
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> The other pro leagues never work.


RE: It won't be another pro league...it'll be an officially indorsed and supported minor league for the development of players.

This will be what NFL Europe SHOULD have been. It looks like each NFL division will farm players to thier regional team. So the AFC East will send all of thier players to the same team. Players will be able to freely move to and from thier sponsoring team...I like it.

It'll give most 6th, and 7th round draft picks as well as UFA's and guys stuck on practice squads around the league a chance to play in actual games. While getting more coaching and time to further develop thier talent and skills...its a win win for the players, teams, fans and the league.

The USFL, would have worked, but they blew it by trying to switch their season from Spring to fall to early... Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Hershel Walker, Reggie White, Mike Rozier etc were all players who choose to sign with the USFL rather then the NFL... The USFL actually signed 3 consecutive heisman trophy winners in their prime. It can be done IMO, the USFL just got greedy and wanted to much to fast... and imploded when they went up against the NFL season head to head.. Bad business moves killed the USFL...

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How could anyone think this is a GOOD thing? Remember the mess the WFL did by attracting NFL players? We could have easily won more Superbowls if not for the WFL.

The original incarnation of the USFL attracted players like Jim Kelly and Hershell Walker away from the NFL until the league folded. What did that do except take a couple years of those players careers away from the NFL teams that drafted them?

I'm fine with the Arena Football League and CFL, because those leagues are different enough to coexist (rules, etc...). The WFL/USFL/XFL....a total waste of time.

More football please.

Monte:

The difference between this USFL and the one we had before is quite a bit.

There will be eight teams, each one representing a region. Each team from the current NFL's eight divisions will allocate a certain number of players to that regions team.

So for example, each team in the AFC east will allocate a certain number of players to the 53 man roster of thier regions team. Lets say each team gets ten players to allocate that leaves 13 players the team must find on thier own...those will come from UFA's, the CFL, players that have been cut from NFL teams and weren't re-signed by another team...etc.

"Regional draft picks would be used so that, say, a player who attended Oregon or Oregon State would wind up with a Portland franchise."

"We will not try to compete with the NFL at all," said CEO Jaime Cuadra after adding Biletnikoff and James Bailey, an executive for the Cleveland Browns and then the Baltimore Ravens for 21 years, to the USFL's board of advisers."

"We will play in markets where there are no NFL teams or major league baseball teams. It's a league for guys who are on the bubble for making NFL teams, and we will have complete open access for the NFL. We want to build a model that is sustainable."

The USFL is looking at a 14-game season from March until June in eight cities. Its players would then be free to join NFL clubs at their training camps.

All player and coach contracts will be owned by the league, with salaries not approaching anything the NFL offers.

montequi Wrote:
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> How could anyone think this is a GOOD thing?

Maybe this time they will raid the Patriots and Steelers.