MrBuddyGarrity Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Eminem suggests AAF should allow fights, Johnny Manziel agrees https://t.co/23CRSyIjKK via @247sports I thought the XFL tried that and failed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threejs Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 While sitting here reading sports forums, holding my 12 day old grandchild, I could either ask him what he thought or get Eminem's perspective. It's a tossup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShadowKnows Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 21 hours ago, MrBuddyGarrity said: Eminem suggests AAF should allow fights, Johnny Manziel agrees https://t.co/23CRSyIjKK via @247sports I thought the XFL tried that and failed? If you want to sell rap music listen to Eminem, but besides that I would not take his advice on anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher805 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 The NFL seems to be taking notes from the AAF...Matter of time before they become a minor league and players will have an option to go there instead of college... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBuddyGarrity Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 AAF majority owner could fold league without support from NFLPA. https://t.co/3DrbHUj1vp https://t.co/MY8WxloHKC The @TheAAF's chairman says league could fold if the @NFLPA won't let it use @NFL players https://t.co/dkWZxIgsnP https://t.co/4YZSzwkMF4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 2 hours ago, topher805 said: The NFL seems to be taking notes from the AAF...Matter of time before they become a minor league and players will have an option to go there instead of college... 53 minutes ago, MrBuddyGarrity said: AAF majority owner could fold league without support from NFLPA. https://t.co/3DrbHUj1vp https://t.co/MY8WxloHKC The @TheAAF's chairman says league could fold if the @NFLPA won't let it use @NFL players https://t.co/dkWZxIgsnP https://t.co/4YZSzwkMF4 If the NFL was smart they'd buy the AAF lock, stock, and barrel to use as a stateside development league. It's low overhead with the salary structure and smaller base of operations. You can also use it to leverage better tv deals. Frankly, I don't know why the NFL isn't already doing this. I guess they're still sore from the NFL Europe experiment. But this is a better business model. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher805 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 23 minutes ago, AKA said: If the NFL was smart they'd buy the AAF lock, stock, and barrel to use as a stateside development league. It's low overhead with the salary structure and smaller base of operations. You can also use it to leverage better tv deals. Frankly, I don't know why the NFL isn't already doing this. I guess they're still sore from the NFL Europe experiment. But this is a better business model. I think they are waiting to see how this really pans out. It jumped out strong, but they want to see how it fares through the season and into next year. They already moved their championship from Vegas to the Star in Dallas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelvisPresley Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 to try and hold the NFL hostage would seem to be a gun to your own head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Pro Football Talk- All @TheAAF football operations will be suspended in the next few hours, per source with knowledge of situation. League is not folding, yet. But it's heading that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 It was fun while it lasted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Albert Brewer- Perception inside the AAF is that Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon bought a majority stake in the league simply for the gambling app being developed. Source: "Dundon got the technology he wanted and he's now minus one rather large headache." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveTV1 Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 I hate to see it go. I really enjoyed watching the highlights. The thing is, they were in small market cities. At least with the XFL they are in larger markets. The only one I would say is a small market is L.A. only because they don't care about football. While the Rams did rank 10th in the NFL last year the Chargers ranked 32, and they were a solid team last year. True they are in a cracker box stadium, but L.A. is more of a college football, NBA, and MLB city. Birmingham is really a small city. Many have moved to Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Bessemer, and Center Point. It is a football state, but even going to see Barons or UAB games was cheap and easy ticket. At least the XFL will have somewhat of a talent pool to draw on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 ^ Vince’s money should give the XFL a chance for a season or two. The public has shown they will tune in to a league with a bad TV contract. Handle those two situations and you should have a decent foundation. If you can get that NFL tie in your golden. If not, would anybody be shocked to see the NFL come out with a minor league themselves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 Seeing stuff on Twitter about players having to pay their own way on flights home. One reporter has even apologized that he was lied to by a high up source over the financial stability of the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88YoePride Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 I think it was Spurrier said one of the main purposes of this league was to get players shots at the NFL. I also liked the idea of the AAF-XFL title game. Y'all are right about the franchise placements, but I bet money was a big part of that. A - Major markets with NFL teams didn't want the competition, I'm sure, even in the offseason, for whatever reason. I also bet there were... tax abatement-type deals. B - Interesting about markets like Birmingham. Huge hs football turf. Curious AAF wasn't doing better there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveTV1 Posted April 3, 2019 Share Posted April 3, 2019 18 hours ago, 88YoePride said: I think it was Spurrier said one of the main purposes of this league was to get players shots at the NFL. I also liked the idea of the AAF-XFL title game. Y'all are right about the franchise placements, but I bet money was a big part of that. A - Major markets with NFL teams didn't want the competition, I'm sure, even in the offseason, for whatever reason. I also bet there were... tax abatement-type deals. B - Interesting about markets like Birmingham. Huge hs football turf. Curious AAF wasn't doing better there. I have a friend from there that was a huge fan, and attended every home game. The problem is the stadiums location. Just like Rickwood Field it's not in one of the best neighborhoods. It's similar to the Fair Park area in Dallas. They haven't played an Iron Bowl there in 21 years, and there's a reason for it. Another thing that hurt them there is Auburn making a run for the National Championship in basketball. While that only affects about 39% of the fans in Alabama, it may have been why some of the Auburn fans didn't make some of the home games. Another big reason is lack of television coverage. Had it been on National TV it might have made it, being on a third tier cable network didn't help. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88YoePride Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 I had a sneaking suspicion when they let a franchise owner personally invest the money to keep the thing going. Something just felt sketchy... https://www.cbssports.com/aaf/news/aaf-2019-what-went-wrong-and-what-happens-next-following-leagues-sudden-shutdown/amp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelvisPresley Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 15 hours ago, 88YoePride said: I had a sneaking suspicion when they let a franchise owner personally invest the money to keep the thing going. Something just felt sketchy... https://www.cbssports.com/aaf/news/aaf-2019-what-went-wrong-and-what-happens-next-following-leagues-sudden-shutdown/amp/ So yep, I just read the article you linked...and I too had enjoyed the AAF to an extent. How the heck could they make ANY AGREEMENT with ANY businessman...and I would say this towards any of us for any deal we are going into in life, but the AAF gave this joker the say-so 100% that the league had to be based on "what he had in mind for the league"...therefore he has decided to now within 2 months shut the doors. How could they not have talked about what HE HAD IN MIND FOR THE LEAGUE prior to agreeing to take him on as a majority owner...shouldn't call him that though...they need to call him #MASTER Worst parts: PROMISED 3 to 4 YEARS OF WORK (1) employees (asst coaches - these people quit other places & were hoping to use this to parlay NFL jobs) (2) higher administrative people w/ each team - they would be legit business folks...last paycheck end of this week and insurance stops end of April. Again coming from the sports world and between college coaching gigs...I nearly took a job working with the Rangers...obviously different situation, but could you imagine a family depending on that. Freakin' blows my mind!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBuddyGarrity Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 From the AAF: Effective immediately, all AAF players are authorized to sign with NFL Clubs. Hope those guys land on their feet rather it's NFL or other pro ball leagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelvisPresley Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 When Dundon (AAF owner) says that a new financial source may become available soon to restructure the league for a possible season 2... he has sent out interns to place 500 credit card "skimmers" at ATM's and large gas stations like Buccee's/Love's, etc to swipe money to "infuse" his pockets and create a nest-egg "for the League's 1/2 season" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PelvisPresley Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 17 minutes ago, MrBuddyGarrity said: From the AAF: Effective immediately, all AAF players are authorized to sign with NFL Clubs. How those guys land on their feet rather it's NFL or other pro ball leagues. SUPPOSEDLY...there is an email that has been floated out "there" directly from "NFL Administrative Upper Level", advising that teams DO NOT sign any AAF players which is bizarre to say the least, if a team saw talent in these on air tryouts then let them sign someone. May God bless them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 12 minutes ago, CoachPelvisPresley said: SUPPOSEDLY...there is an email that has been floated out "there" directly from "NFL Administrative Upper Level", advising that teams DO NOT sign any AAF players which is bizarre to say the least, if a team saw talent in these on air tryouts then let them sign someone. May God bless them! That doesn't make any sense... why "embargo" the players? The only rationale for boycotting AAFL players would be to put the league out of business. A bit late for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topher805 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, AKA said: That doesn't make any sense... why "embargo" the players? The only rationale for boycotting AAFL players would be to put the league out of business. A bit late for that... Because the NFL lost a lot of fringe guys and practice squad players to the AAF. This is the NFL telling those guys, "You left us. Sorry things didn't work out, but we have moved on." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBuddyGarrity Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 From Adam Schefter: There’s an AAFL signing - CB Keith Reaser from Orlando to the Chiefs, per source. Deal includes $100k up front — $50K signing bonus, $25k workout bonus and $25k roster bonus, per source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, topher805 said: Because the NFL lost a lot of fringe guys and practice squad players to the AAF. This is the NFL telling those guys, "You left us. Sorry things didn't work out, but we have moved on." I can see individual coaches and/or GMs maybe feeling that way, but to blackball a couple hundred players over them trying to raise their athletic profile is just retarded. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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