dfwabel Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Alright, take two:NFC East: Virgina Bucks (WAS), Harrisburg Colonials (PHI), Albany Warriors (NYG), Fort Worth Outlaws (DAL)NFC West: San Antonio Marshals (SEA), San Jose Condors (SF), Kansas Coyotes (STL), Scottsdale Vipers (ARZ)NFC South: Birmingham Rebels (ATL), Raleigh Nighthawks (CAR), Shreveport Crawdads (NO), St. Pete Pirates (TB)NFC North: Dakota Wolves (MIN), Kenosha Muskies (GB), Lansing Wheels (DET), Springfield Grizzlies (CHI) (or maybe Isotopes?)AFC North: Appalachia Miners (PIT), Annapolis Owls (BAL), Kentucky Bobcats (CIN), Toledo Bulldogs (CLE)AFC East: Atlantic City Mariners (NYJ), Bridgeport Colonials (NE), Rochester Reds (BUF), Orlando Pythons (MIA)AFC West: Albuquerque Scorpions (KC), Aspen Mustangs (DEN), Santa Clara Sabres (OAK), Oceanside Lakers (SD)AFC South: Evansville Colts (IND), Tallahassee Wildcats (JAX), Galveston Oilers (HOU), Chattanooga Blues (TEN)Even more failure as you place teams in large college towns who give $$$ to football in the fall and basketball (and/or hockey) to the same school in the winter.Fort Worth: Same city as TCU with a new on-campus stadium and the Cowboys also now play in Tarrant CountySan Jose/Santa Clara: The Levi's Stadium (new 49ers Stadium) is in the city of Santa Clara. San Jose State has new facilities, but why have a team "on- campus" when there is a team which is already on campus which you get for free...the SJSU Spartans!Aspen: The white people who own major corporations and sport teams go to Aspen to do one major thing...To Stay Away From Plebeians of Every Race!Tallahassee: Already has both FSU and FAMU as teams and stadiums. No market.Birmingham: Stopped caring about other football since it about over a hour from Tuscaloosa and less than two from Auburn. Shreveport: Stays ahead from casino gambling.Albuquerque: Same city and stadium as the universityTo All: Just stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Fort Worth: Same city as TCU with a new on-campus stadium and the Cowboys also now play in Tarrant CountySan Jose/Santa Clara: The Levi's Stadium (new 49ers Stadium) is in the city of Santa Clara. San Jose State has new facilities, but why have a team "on- campus" when there is a team which is already on campus which you get for free...the SJSU Spartans!Aspen: The white people who own major corporations and sport teams go to Aspen to do one major thing...To Stay Away From Plebeians of Every Race!Tallahassee: Already has both FSU and FAMU as teams and stadiums. No market.Birmingham: Stopped caring about other football since it about over a hour from Tuscaloosa and less than two from Auburn. Shreveport: Stays ahead from casino gambling.Albuquerque: Same city and stadium as the universityTo All: Just stop. Okay, so, instead of those failed market proposals, how about:Corpus Christi Cowboys (DALLAS)Sacramento Condors (SAN FRANCISCO - who honestly cares about Sac State?)Modesto Marauders (OAKLAND)Aurora Mustangs (DENVER - I know it's in the same metro area. Think of a Leafs-Marlies deal)Daytona Wildcats (JACKSONVILLE, assuming they stay there). If the Jags move to Los Angeles, then Long Beach gets an NFL2 team.Metairie Crawdads (NEW ORLEANS)Topeka Threshers (KANSAS CITY)Mobile Rebels (ATLANTA)NFC East: Virginia Bucks (WAS), Harrisburg Colonials (PHI), Albany Warriors (NYG), Corpus Christi Cowboys (DAL)NFC West: San Antonio Marshals (SEA), Sacramento Condors (SF), Kansas Coyotes (STL), Scottsdale Vipers (ARZ)NFC South: Mobile Rebels (ATL), Raleigh Nighthawks (CAR), Metairie Crawdads (NO), St. Pete Pirates (TB)NFC North: Dakota Wolves (MIN), Kenosha Muskies (GB), Lansing Wheels (DET), Springfield Grizzlies (CHI) (or maybe Isotopes?)AFC North: Appalachia Miners (PIT), Annapolis Owls (BAL), Kentucky Bobcats (CIN), Toledo Bulldogs (CLE)AFC East: Atlantic City Mariners (NYJ), Bridgeport Colonials (NE), Rochester Reds (BUF), Orlando Pythons (MIA)AFC West: Topeka Threshers (KC), Aurora Mustangs (DEN), Modesto Marauders (OAK), Oceanside Lakers (SD)AFC South: Evansville Colts (IND), Daytona Wildcats (JAX), Galveston Oilers (HOU), Chattanooga Blues (TEN) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Is it not dawning on anyone else that divisional rivals sharing a developmental affiliate is like all-time dumb? ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 It dawned on me. I proposed 32 different cities for developmental teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkell007 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Fort Worth: Same city as TCU with a new on-campus stadium and the Cowboys also now play in Tarrant CountySan Jose/Santa Clara: The Levi's Stadium (new 49ers Stadium) is in the city of Santa Clara. San Jose State has new facilities, but why have a team "on- campus" when there is a team which is already on campus which you get for free...the SJSU Spartans!Aspen: The white people who own major corporations and sport teams go to Aspen to do one major thing...To Stay Away From Plebeians of Every Race!Tallahassee: Already has both FSU and FAMU as teams and stadiums. No market.Birmingham: Stopped caring about other football since it about over a hour from Tuscaloosa and less than two from Auburn. Shreveport: Stays ahead from casino gambling.Albuquerque: Same city and stadium as the universityTo All: Just stop. Okay, so, instead of those failed market proposals, how about:Corpus Christi Cowboys (DALLAS)Sacramento Condors (SAN FRANCISCO - who honestly cares about Sac State?)Modesto Marauders (OAKLAND)Aurora Mustangs (DENVER - I know it's in the same metro area. Think of a Leafs-Marlies deal)Daytona Wildcats (JACKSONVILLE, assuming they stay there). If the Jags move to Los Angeles, then Long Beach gets an NFL2 team.Metairie Crawdads (NEW ORLEANS)Topeka Threshers (KANSAS CITY)Mobile Rebels (ATLANTA)NFC East: Virginia Bucks (WAS), Harrisburg Colonials (PHI), Albany Warriors (NYG), Corpus Christi Cowboys (DAL)NFC West: San Antonio Marshals (SEA), Sacramento Condors (SF), Kansas Coyotes (STL), Scottsdale Vipers (ARZ)NFC South: Mobile Rebels (ATL), Raleigh Nighthawks (CAR), Metairie Crawdads (NO), St. Pete Pirates (TB)NFC North: Dakota Wolves (MIN), Kenosha Muskies (GB), Lansing Wheels (DET), Springfield Grizzlies (CHI) (or maybe Isotopes?)AFC North: Appalachia Miners (PIT), Annapolis Owls (BAL), Kentucky Bobcats (CIN), Toledo Bulldogs (CLE)AFC East: Atlantic City Mariners (NYJ), Bridgeport Colonials (NE), Rochester Reds (BUF), Orlando Pythons (MIA)AFC West: Topeka Threshers (KC), Aurora Mustangs (DEN), Modesto Marauders (OAK), Oceanside Lakers (SD)AFC South: Evansville Colts (IND), Daytona Wildcats (JAX), Galveston Oilers (HOU), Chattanooga Blues (TEN)like the names and such but where are some of these teams gonna play? like virgin, or Appalachia and Oceanside??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 like the names and such but where are some of these teams gonna play? like virgin, or Appalachia and Oceanside???Perhaps some stadiums would need to be built, but perhaps not. I'm sure that some of the lower-tier NCAA schools wouldn't mind having a second football team using their field if they could charge them enough coin to do so. Just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil G Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I think the idea of 3rd stringers and below on a minor league club could work, but if there was an Iowa team, it will play in Des Moines. Bruh check out my last.fm And my Rate Your Music Fantasy Teams: Seattle Spacemen (CFA) Signature credit to Silent Wind of Doom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flasah Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I think the idea of 3rd stringers and below on a minor league club could work, but if there was an Iowa team, it will play in Des Moines. YES! Thank you. If this whole idea made any sense, the Iowa team should play at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joke Insurance Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 like the names and such but where are some of these teams gonna play? like virgin, or Appalachia and Oceanside???Same with the Kansas Coyotes and Dakota Wolves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 Semi-on topic, I was wondering if there could be like a right-of-first-refusal system for the practice squads. It always struck me as odd that you could pick someone off another team's practice squad without that team being able to add that player to their own team first. I don't suppose there would be compensation if you let a team take a guy off your practice squad, because I mean, practice squad guys. But if you have a guy in your organization, however tenuously, you shouldn't be able to lose him without having anything to say about it. ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needschat Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 The NFL Developmental League, or the D-FL, should start with eight teams, one for each division, separated into two divisions. Twelve games played. Oh what could have been.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonBlue Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 The only way I could see this working with less than 32 teams is if you had 16 teams and each team was affiliated with one AFC and one NFC team. No way teams in the same division would want to share an affiliate. And you couldn't pick cities with big college teams in them or nearby, which means some of these teams would be playing in AAA baseball parks which wouldn't seat more than 10K. Pretty unrealistic. Some possibilities (and even many of these are stretches):West: Sacramento (SF/OAK), LA (AZ/SD), San Antonio (DAL/HOU), Omaha (Kansas City/Minnesota), Portland (Denver/Seattle), Memphis (St. Louis, Tennessee),East: Hartford (NYG, NE), Orlando (TB, MIA), Mobile (NO, JAX), Canton (DET/CLE), "I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be." -Peter Gibbons RIP Demitra #38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAWeaver Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Dayton, you've still got rivals with the same team. SF/OAK are always at each others necks whether they're playing each other or not. Why not do what the Arena League did and have a minor system in which no one has an affiliation? AF2 was working pretty well until it was forced to merge with the upper class to save the sports. The San Antonio Talons, Utah Blaze, and Spokane Shock were a part of the AF2 until they merged. Seattle won an Arena Bowl in their first year in the upper tier, I believe. @loganaweaver - Twitter / @loganaweaver - Instagram / Nike Vapor Untouchable Football Template / Logan's Logos  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Semi-on topic, I was wondering if there could be like a right-of-first-refusal system for the practice squads. It always struck me as odd that you could pick someone off another team's practice squad without that team being able to add that player to their own team first. I don't suppose there would be compensation if you let a team take a guy off your practice squad, because I mean, practice squad guys. But if you have a guy in your organization, however tenuously, you shouldn't be able to lose him without having anything to say about it.My understanding (based off of a local radio guy, so grain of salt) is that the practice squad guys are essentially free agents. Any other team can sign one of them, but they have to be added to that other team's active roster right away... you can't be signed away just to sit on that other team's practice squad. If your team really wanted the guy on the active roster, you would have found room for him. Plus, the player is in a better situation. I think the system works pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Dayton, you've still got rivals with the same team. SF/OAK are always at each others necks whether they're playing each other or not.Why not do what the Arena League did and have a minor system in which no one has an affiliation? AF2 was working pretty well until it was forced to merge with the upper class to save the sports. The San Antonio Talons, Utah Blaze, and Spokane Shock were a part of the AF2 until they merged. Seattle won an Arena Bowl in their first year in the upper tier, I believe.The af2 didn't merge. It became the AFL. And the af2 was kind of middlin' success wise as a feeder and a business. Of course the af2 existed as a pawn to kill off other indoor leagues, so that's to be expected. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Semi-on topic, I was wondering if there could be like a right-of-first-refusal system for the practice squads. It always struck me as odd that you could pick someone off another team's practice squad without that team being able to add that player to their own team first. I don't suppose there would be compensation if you let a team take a guy off your practice squad, because I mean, practice squad guys. But if you have a guy in your organization, however tenuously, you shouldn't be able to lose him without having anything to say about it.My understanding (based off of a local radio guy, so grain of salt) is that the practice squad guys are essentially free agents. Any other team can sign one of them, but they have to be added to that other team's active roster right away... you can't be signed away just to sit on that other team's practice squad. If your team really wanted the guy on the active roster, you would have found room for him. Plus, the player is in a better situation. I think the system works pretty well.The Practice Squad players equal to about 4 teams of players. Article 33 of the CBA explains the Practice Squad and their salaries, but every team's SB Nation page has that article in their "practice squad page". If you are on the Practice Squad tonight, you make $6K/week minimum. If another NFL team signs you, you make more. Every NFL team has the option to have up to eight players on their roster (League total of 256) on the Practice Squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedleyLamarr Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Semi-on topic, I was wondering if there could be like a right-of-first-refusal system for the practice squads. It always struck me as odd that you could pick someone off another team's practice squad without that team being able to add that player to their own team first. I don't suppose there would be compensation if you let a team take a guy off your practice squad, because I mean, practice squad guys. But if you have a guy in your organization, however tenuously, you shouldn't be able to lose him without having anything to say about it.My understanding (based off of a local radio guy, so grain of salt) is that the practice squad guys are essentially free agents. Any other team can sign one of them, but they have to be added to that other team's active roster right away... you can't be signed away just to sit on that other team's practice squad. If your team really wanted the guy on the active roster, you would have found room for him. Plus, the player is in a better situation. I think the system works pretty well.The Practice Squad players equal to about 4 teams of players. Article 33 of the CBA explains the Practice Squad and their salaries, but every team's SB Nation page has that article in their "practice squad page". If you are on the Practice Squad tonight, you make $6K/week minimum. If another NFL team signs you, you make more. Every NFL team has the option to have up to eight players on their roster (League total of 256) on the Practice Squad. You're guaranteed at least three weeks of league-minimum pay, which is around $25,000 per week....even if they get released by the team that signed them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Three weeks on a NFL roster equals a year of service for the NFL Pension. One is fully vested after 4 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Why waste time putting one team in San Jose and another in Santa Clara? Particularly with the Raiders minor league team being in the same town the Niners play in? Wouldn't it make more sense to have minor league teams in different towns/regions than the parents? Say Sacramento and Stockton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beluga4 Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Aww man that was my Idea The NBA has an NCAA too but they have a D-League Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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