Sports Another pro football league in the works besides the XFL

[MovinOn]

This one, the Alliance of American Football, has Bill Polian, Troy Polumalu and Hines Ward affiliated with it.
The season will run 10 weeks and will have 50-man teams, and it is scheduled to debut in February 2019, a year ahead of Vince McMahon's revived XFL.

Charlie Ebersol, who directed a documentary on the XFL that aired last year as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, announced Tuesday that his league, the Alliance of American Football, plans to debut Feb. 9, 2019, the week after Super Bowl LIII. Ebersol's father, Dick Ebersol, was McMahon's partner in the original XFL and is a longtime television executive.

"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."

Unlike McMahon, whose announcement came without a media plan, Ebersol said that his league, made up of players who didn't make the cut for the NFL, will have the initial game and the championship game on CBS and one matchup per week on CBS Sports Network. Other games will be available on the league's app, which Ebersol said promises to integrate live fantasy play into the broadcasts.

"Fifty-nine million people play fantasy and 20 million people play only fantasy football," Ebersol. "We have to be able to take advantage of the people who just stop playing fantasy when the NFL season ends."

Former NFLers involved in league to rival XFL

 

[Sex Chicken]

If any of those teams are looking for a 43 year old middle linebacker, 6’ 180 pounds, who eats lightning and craps thunder, they can PM me on this web site.

 

[Hauler]

Bill Polian, Troy Polumalu and Hines Ward

Confirmed speakers for the following seminars:

• How to cope with loss. (4 part lecture)
• Living with CTE and bad hair
• How to crackback block like a bitch

 

[Hauler]

Listened to someone talk about this on the DP show today.

• No kickoffs. Possessions start on the 25.
• No PATs. You must go for 2.
• No onsides kicks (obviously, since there are no kickoffs). If a team wants to gamble to keep the ball, they can elect to take the ball on their own 35 and will start that drive with a 4th and 10. Convert and they keep the ball. If not, other team takes possession where the play ended.

 

[silentsinger]

This will be like watching MLS but if it fills the hole that's left after Super Bowl finishes I'll gladly watch it.

 

[Hauler]

I've got $100 that 2 of the QBs are

1. Tim Tebow
2. Johnny Manziel

 

[Filthy]

Listened to someone talk about this on the DP show today.

• No kickoffs. Possessions start on the 25.
• No PATs. You must go for 2.
• No onsides kicks (obviously, since there are no kickoffs). If a team wants to gamble to keep the ball, they can elect to take the ball on their own 35 and will start that drive with a 4th and 10. Convert and they keep the ball. If not, other team takes possession where the play ended.

i like those rules.

 

[Hauler]

i like those rules.

I don't hate them.
Kickoffs are boring anymore. 80% of them are touchbacks anyway. I have no idea if that's an accurate stat - but it feels like a lot of them are.

Touchdown!
PAT.
Commercial.
Kickoff.
Commercial.

I'd love to see a stat on the average amount of real time that passes from TD to the opponent running the first play of their next series. I bet it's easily 7 or 8 minutes. Feels like an hour. Thank fuck for RedZone Channel.

They also said they were going to shorten the play clock with this new league.