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The NFL already has competition.....sort of: It is the only Alternative football league that is taken seriously by many of us here. People tend to forget that and only focus on the United States.

That is going to look weird since the Vipers do not have any red in them.

the AAF had some worse field designs, especially in Salt Lake City, when the stitching could not be removed from the field.

This is how unstable indoor teams are, that they don't even screen or vet employees. It is yet another reason the sport isn't taken seriously.

MLS has a stable group of owners these days, despite one of them being an over privileged trust fund baby who tries to be super cool (but fails to do so) by becoming friends with Matthew McConaghuey (his name being Anthony Precourt). And despite 200 owners for LAFC, they do have former NBA executive Tom Penn as the face of the ownership group as he represented the group when they announced the 2020 All Star Game (plus they have people involved who own the Golden State Warriors, LA Dodgers and Joe Tsai, the owner of the Brooklyn Nets and owners of Cardiff City and QPR). From the recent expansion teams that have more than one owner, I would assume that with St. Louis, Carolyn Kindle Betz will be the public face of their ownership. Same for Sacramento and Kevin Nagle. With Miami, the face of ownership is David Beckham. Also a large majority of MLS owners own teams in other sports and two brand new minority MLS owners, Russell Wilson and James Harden are still actively playing. MLS' ownership strategy tends to lean towards owners who own sports teams in the Big 4 or sometimes European soccer clubs. Nothing wrong with that though as it ensures stability for MLS clubs. It's another thing about these indoor teams, sometimes they have a bunch of owners and nobody to represent the team as face of ownership, which causes chaos. Having someone has the face of the ownership group represents stability, but sadly these indoor teams do not have any. It means a revolving door of presidents, GM's and coaches. If I remember correctly, the NBA G League no longer has the issue of unstable owners since a majority of them are owned by NBA teams anyways.

Ah okay. Still I think one person owning multiple teams is not a good idea. It never is and it's one of the reason's that the sport of Indoor Football is a mess. That and the leagues tend to allow anyone in who has money without regard for background checks. It's the total opposite of how the major professional leagues vet potential owners. I always wonder how the owners of these indoor teams make their money. The only indoor/arena football team owners with any credibility were Ted Leonsis and (probably) Ron Jaworski. We know how both made their money and where it came from. For many of these owners, an indoor football team is the only team they own so they lack the experience to own a sports team. Now I know that the NFL experiment with the AFL failed, but at the least some of these owners could own minor league teams in other sports but they don't.

The XFL has that structure. All 8 teams are owned by Vince McMahon. The AAF went single entity and we all know how that worked out. The Big 4 has all individual owners. MLS has investors, not owners and I think that the Indoor leagues should go this route at least. Single entity is a conflict of interest in a lot of ways. If one ones multiple teams in the same league and that owner has a lot of power in that league (as Rob Stone does in the NAL) it would be considered as favoritism, giving those teams an unfair advantage over everyone else.

One of the main issues with these indoor leagues is that there are multiple teams owned by one or two guys, which causes issues. We saw this in the Arena League with Ted Leonsis owning Baltimore and Washington DC and Ron Jaworski owning Philly and Atlantic City. Unlike with the owners of the NAL or IFL, we know how Ted makes his money. We know that Ted is finally solvent because if he had not been, I doubt he would be an NBA and NHL team owner. The folding of the Arena League hurts Leonsis, but it's not likely to affect his ownership of the Capitals and Wizards. Apparently the money guy of the NAL is Ron Shurts, a businessman who owns the Carolina Cobras and Jacksonville Sharks, which means conflict of interest since both teams played in the NAL Championship last year. I don't know how he makes his money, but probably through questionable means. The Indoor Football League has a new money backer: The Germain Family, who are apparently an auto dealership family from Columbus, Ohio who will be owning two teams, the Frisco Fighters (giving DFW their third pro football team after the Cowboys and Renegades) and a Columbus, Ohio IFL Team in 2021. The IFL already as three teams owned by Roy Choi (not the celebrity chef, but a man who owns a casino gaming company) in Cedar Rapids, San Diego and Oakland, the latter of whom is also co-owned by current Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch. The Arizona Rattlers are coached by Kevin Guy, who owns the Tucson Sugar Skulls in the same state and same league. As a result, Arizona vs. Tucson has been known as the Kevin Guy Bowl.

yeah, if anything that lessens any credibility the NAL may have had.

The sport has no credibility when it comes to owners. Many of them are local business people who have no experience in owning pro sports teams before acquiring an Indoor team, some with questionable ethics.

Didn't the arena that the Streets played in serve as the home of the WNBA's New York Liberty for 2 seasons?

A bit of news on the Angels AL West foes over in Oakland:

Bluish-Black?

the NFL doesn't even do this. The Bears and Steelers do have black helmets and facemasks, but on the rare chances that they play each other, one of them wears white. Earlier this year, the Cowboys and Lions played each other, and while both have gray helmets and facemasks, the Lions wore blue jerseys and the Cowboys were in white.

Beckham is going to want Marlins Park in that case.

The uniforms will be manufactured by a branch of Adidas: https://xflnewshub.com/xfl-news/new-division-of-adidas-will-be-xfl-uniform-manufacturer/

This is what I meant.

Meanwhile in Tampa:

I think that the best alternative football jerseys out there were some of the USFL jerseys.

The Renegades continue the tradition of "Dallas Sports Teams having blue" in their team colors, as is the case for every pro sports team in Dallas except the Stars.

Rob Manfred right now: One down, three (Arizona, Oakland and Tampa) to go.

The Jets owner, Woody Johnson woke up one day and said "let's copy the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders!"

I would not call the XFL jerseys as generic. If any jerseys are generic it's most NFL jerseys.

The rumor on Twitter is that Adidas is going to be the official uniform supplier.