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Orlando seemed like a shoe in last time except the AAF was there and there was not enough time to wait to see what eventually happened. Plus Tampa had the same problem Salt Lake in the AAF had, the colors and team just did not match the stadium they were playing in. TB should've had red SOMEWHERE in the colors.

They were hosting LA, which had some significance as well. I was gonna make the drive over to the game after seeing the first game in Arlington. And then Covid happened.

Only one endzone has seats and is very small. Wouldn't surprise me if they did but I don't see an issue. The problem will be the 400 people there will look horrible since there won't be a single home team. I hope they go free admission and try to pack the place with youth teams, etc. Cause the D3 ncaa title game was held there to a ridiculously small crowd when Mount Union failed to make it.

I doubt they're paying to have workers remove and install them between games. This just makes more sit on the sideline for angle shots and this gives them the usfl logos on plain view from the sky cam and drone shots.

Well, they had been. Though the Breakers receiving game had been fun to watch.

Looks better in photos than on the field. But still the best of the eight team bunch.

At least the games are competitive.

Pittsburgh v. Philadelphia is the best visual matchup. Especially under a bright sun.

No. No, you're sadly mostly right, I'm sure. Cause I can't think of another reason either.

First, football is popular. There's no debate on that. It's a matter of scale. Millions of people watch high school games every weekend in the fall. Yet, you aren't going to get a million people to watch just one high school game. People aren't that interested in watching teams that they're not fans of. Only at the highest levels does 'casual viewing' become a thing. The NFL can have fans tune in for any game because of the 16 every weekend, you're bound to get a good one. Same with the upper echelon of college. Spring football struggles for one overwhelming reason. It's not the same football that you watched. It would be like In-n-Out only selling burgers four months a year, and the rest of the year you just had to a wait. And burger stand after burger stand trying to start up to fill the void. But tastes like shoe leather and only available in 8 cities. You're not going to gain the same fans because it's not the same. What you need to do is adjust your economics to subsist on what you do get. And the last two spring leagues pre-covid that tried, both tried fans in stands as the core driver to grow their leagues. The XFL 2001, and AAF. They failed because travel is expensive. TV crews moving from city to city. Increased number of stadiums to man, staff, etc. USFL is trying to cut out the expenses to be financed entirely by TV. For those complaining about attendance... the tickets were $10 for Sunday, and good for all three games. They're not making money on tickets. At all. In fact, they'd probably do better to just have free admission and have a concessions deal to get a split of profits. Would look better for fans, at least. The big change over the past 20 years since XFL 1.0 is that TV ratings are garbage EXCEPT for live events. XFL 1.0 debuted with a 9.5 rating, which was great, but floundered with a 1.6 rating midway through the season. Today, a 1.6 rating would be popping champaign among executives because live broadcasts are so much better than anything that can be watched on delay. And sports is still the one key 'must watch live' events on TV. It's why there's live plays, reality shows, game shows, etc. Because people are hoping to see something unique as it happens. And sports today is made for TV. USFL is trying to capitalize on it. And with no travel, no stadium deals all over, staffing, etc. It's easy to keep costs down and contained and hope to subsist on TV. And THEN once it grows in support, branch out to the host cities. But apparently, too many are going to be hung up on people they don't even know sitting in a stadium of a game they are watching rather than watching the game. Then again, it's why the NFL papered the Super Bowl two years ago so people idiotically thought it was full because somehow it mattered.

Remember that today, live TV pays really well and sports is one of the few things in 2022 that are "must watch live". This is a made for TV league, hence the single site to get started. This is Easter Sunday with an hour delay before kickoff of Game 1. Where you'll see the better crowd if when Birmingham is part of the multi game schedule and not a single game. Also, fans will care because it's football. We've proven through covid that fans will watch a game with no fans. And football is still king in the US.

That may be true but it's $10 for three games and it's general admission for most of the stadium (only by the 50 is premium). So it's a great deal to spend a day. But rain AND Easter definitely limits any walk up sales.

The @acdc reference might be they're back in black. Maybe a 2001 logo return from the red white and blue? Would be cool to see an 8 team league be New York Hitmen, DC Defenders, Orlando Rage, Seattle Dragons, San Diego Demons, St. Louis BattleHawks, San Antonio Renegades, and Houston Roughnecks.

There's a rule in place that the road team has to agree to switch jerseys. LSU does it because they play only at night and that convinces road teams to agree.

I think it is a good idea. Gives every team their own moment.

Are they wearing two different colored pants?

They already have the three stars. Four more would be utterly confusing.

When judging Leagues, you have to do top to bottom and how many teams each has, not just the behemoths at the top. MLS really has every team capable of being within a year of contention for the title. Most leagues is a handful at the top that flip flop who wins it while the rest are just trying to avoid elimination.

It's balancing all four legs on one baseball bat.... Would've looked better without the rear claws on it. Also with the rear legs a few inches down to look like it's stepping up onto the bat.

The Browns didn't introduce orange pants with the new uniforms but had them the first year. So white pants can be added.

I'm shocked the Browns were able to go back mostly to their old set after the previous garbage. Small miracles. Maybe Washington can get some of their old style back in 5 years. And a eagles can get their Kelly Green without Nike vomiting something together.

And there's BROWNS fans that are arguing they should go after him to replace Baker... make it make sense

54 years, no host played in the Super Bowl. Now, back to back seasons....

I explained why he said it. The fact it's sudden death is OT. But for timing rules, that's the setup. It's a new half. In the regular season, it's not. Also goes until there's a winner. Another difference from the regular season.

Because, rules wise, other than timeouts, they are. The 5th quarter would play into the 6th quarter, but the 6th quarter would have a two minute warning and the end of the 6th quarter would be the end of a half. A new kickoff would happen to start the third OT (7th quarter) with the team that lost the OT coin flip choosing what to do with the ball.