Too many leagues.
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Can all 3 survive? I read were Toronto lost 9 players to the USFL they wanted to re-sign.
The USFL is the only spring league to finish a season and crown a champion since the original USFL.
The XFL is promising better pay but this will be their 3rd attempt with the first 2 attempts never completing a season.
The USFL is planning on moving games out of Birmingham next year(most likely to 4 regional cities then moving all teams to their home cities in 2024 with the possibility of expansion.
The USFL has more money backing them plus aired games on FOX, NBC, FS1 and USA. Right now the XFL only has ESPN.
Both the USFL and XFL will attract American players hoping to make the NFL, how much will that hurt the talent pool of the CFL? I think they survive but a successful American spring league will hurt them.
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Don’t forget FCF.
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Remember when Roger Staubach complained about hits from Jack Lambert? And Lambert suggested that the NFL dress quarterbacks in dresses?
Staubach remembers, I guarantee it.
Here it comes.
NFL exec Troy Vincent says flag football is 'the future' of the sport, aims for 2028 Olympics competition
Before you know it, NFL training camps will be abuzz with the pop of pads. But the future of the game has no pads at all. Or at least that's what Troy Vincent, the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, told the Associated Press this week, not only suggesting that flag football stands out as the model for the sport's next steps, but revealing the NFL is working toward making flag football an Olympic sport as soon as 2028.
"When we talk about the future of the game of football, it is, no question, flag," Vincent said, per the AP. "When I've been asked over the last 24 months, in particular, what does the next 100 years look like when you look at football, not professional football, it's flag. It's the inclusion and the true motto of 'football for all.' There is a place in flag football for all."
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I do think flag football has a future, but it won't replace tackle.
As for the leagues...I think there's too much pride and heritage in the CFL, although it might could be folded in as a conference in a bigger league. The key would be having a league that's like AAA baseball...Each NFL team would have a AAA team. Players would be paid a certain salary with guaranteed health benefits and injury treatment.
Unlike baseball, they would play at a different time of the year. Question is, when?
