It would be like your wife telling you she is horny and wanted to have sex daily and you can't screw her but once a week. My point is more football the better, the more sex the better too
I do believe there are enough people to support it, it has to be presented the right way, a consistent channel to watch all games, stay away from the millenial streaming bullshit, nobody watches online unless you are traveling. put games on cbs, fox, abc or nbc and it blows up
theory goes that Tom Dundon folded the AAF so that he could take the business’ technology and use it for his own purposes.
There’s only one problem with this.
Even though Dundon’s $70 million cash investment bought him the majority of the parent company that owned the AAF, Ebersol Sports Media, reports are Dundon does not own the technology under Ebersol Sports Media’s tech arm called Legendary Field Exhibitions.
When MGM invested money into the AAF’s tech business last June, it included a provision that would give MGM the rights to own the tech if the AAF went out of business.
Sources confirmed the deal after The Action Network discovered evidence of a financing lien filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
The lien, filed in October, gave MGM rights to the technology’s intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, software and firmware.
An MGM spokesperson said nothing has changed since the original filing, though the filing itself was never publicly reported and obviously wasn’t applicable until the league suspended operations on Tuesday.
MGM’s investment came with a three-year sponsorship of the technology. The league’s app, which allowed fans to project what would happen next, was talked up by some AAF insiders as a legitimate side company.
While the real-time projection of what would happen next resided in the league’s app, MGM had planned to have live in-game betting for AAF games in its app, something that never came to fruition.
A legal source said that even if Dundon filed the league for bankruptcy, the lien would put MGM in the driver’s seat to own the technology
There’s only one problem with this.
Even though Dundon’s $70 million cash investment bought him the majority of the parent company that owned the AAF, Ebersol Sports Media, reports are Dundon does not own the technology under Ebersol Sports Media’s tech arm called Legendary Field Exhibitions.
When MGM invested money into the AAF’s tech business last June, it included a provision that would give MGM the rights to own the tech if the AAF went out of business.
Sources confirmed the deal after The Action Network discovered evidence of a financing lien filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
The lien, filed in October, gave MGM rights to the technology’s intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, software and firmware.
An MGM spokesperson said nothing has changed since the original filing, though the filing itself was never publicly reported and obviously wasn’t applicable until the league suspended operations on Tuesday.
MGM’s investment came with a three-year sponsorship of the technology. The league’s app, which allowed fans to project what would happen next, was talked up by some AAF insiders as a legitimate side company.
While the real-time projection of what would happen next resided in the league’s app, MGM had planned to have live in-game betting for AAF games in its app, something that never came to fruition.
A legal source said that even if Dundon filed the league for bankruptcy, the lien would put MGM in the driver’s seat to own the technology
Only way it would work is if it was an official minor league to the NFL and each NFL team had a minor league team. Fans would have some interest because the NFL teams they root for would own the rights to the minor league players.
These teams would need to be in smaller markets though that would embrace them locally. The same type of markets that AAA and AA baseball teams play in. Play in small college stadiums rather than 60k+ stadiums. 10k fans in a 60k stadium just doesnt show well on TV.
In a perfect world I suppose that would be a component but why would an elite 18-22 year old football player want to play minor league football over going to a major D1 school unless there was a ton of financial incentive to do so. But there likely wouldn't be.
Just not much reason for a 20 y/o beast to wanna play the football equivalent to AA baseball.
Why would you wanna do that over play major D1 ball?
I can see why you would want to go to the G League over college basketball if you were a 1 and done type caliber player but unless your family really, really needs the money (and college sports is gentrifying more than ever so this is becoming less and less the case) then I dunno who would want to play for some team in Pensacola, Florida (shoutout to Roy Jones Jr.) over major D1 CFB. Those guys live like kings for 3-4 years before hitting the league.
So who is playing in this league? Practice squad/AAF caliber guys?
I suppose it could work but as Trump said about the USFL, it would be "small potatoes"
That's what I'm saying. This league wouldn't be that. It would be similar to the NBA developmental league. It would be a minor league system AFTER kids go to college.
What basketball studs bypass college basketball to go play in that league? Zero.
It would be a league for players that were good college players, but didn't quite make an NFL roster. Similar to what the AAF was this year. Only NFL teams would own their rights.
Not much different than the AAF. Only NFL. The name brand would make it work.
Oh, I thought you meant like a minor league that attempts to get the best players out of high school. Yeah, no one is gonna watch what you're describing and there is likely no financial incentive to set it up. The NFL already has a feeder system it doesn't have to pay for or deal with any headaches from, college football.
Fwiw, the reason blue chip bball recruits don't bypass CBB to go to the G League is because they aren't allowed to. In a few years when they're allowed to do so again then guys will probably begin to skip the year of college.
