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GDAWG wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:48 pm If the FCF can maintain costs, they can last. The problem is that the FCF is in a sport (Indoor football) where it's a contest between the IFL, NAL and CIF to see who has the biggest ego. The sport of indoor football would be much better and more stable if the three leagues ever worked together but that's never going to happen. Instead, the clashing egos of those three leagues have prevented the sport from being stable. Look at the outdoor game. One of the best things to happen to the NFL was it's merger with the AFL. The merger made the sport of outdoor football a lot more stable.
I think you misunderstand the situation with indoor ball.

Most of these leagues that play indoor ball play "small ball," featuring no-name players in no-name markets with next-to-no fans. Because of that, most of the teams can't even afford to cover travel expenses for a national league. I remember the SIFL, which came tantalizingly close to going national, but it ended up falling apart after a single year in 2011. That's why you don't see CIF go outside the Great Plains area or the AWFC outside the Pacific Northwest. (In a sense, though, it's less chaotic now than it was about 10 years ago when you had a half-dozen leagues scrambling to corner territory.) These leagues occasionally try to encroach on another's territory every once in a while (see the AAL's attempt to get into Texas) but that usually falls apart pretty quickly.

FCF, in that sense, is totally different. They're going for the national audience first and foremost, and arguably they're the first league to do that since the original Arena Football League. Furthermore, they're actually taking the measures to get that national audience by signing recognizable names. You would not see the NAL's Jacksonville Sharks sign Johnny Manziel. Indoor small ball is designed to be a product to cater to local markets. FCF is casting a much wider net. (Ironically, going the bubble route this year may have helped that since teams weren't tied to a local city.)
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The FCF is also personality driven, allegiance to a team is not geographically or even demographically perpetuated. It's all about which "celeb" owner i.e. Lynch or Sherman do you like or relate to. Some may choose a team based simply on their name or logo as well. Due to the FCF's unique draft format, you may change teams based on their current of-the-week roster. It is a very unique concept but will it sustain?
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FCF hasn’t had any info really for a while. We were told of a fall 2021 season in the weekday. Now it’s looking like it may be another spring season in 2022.

FCF has (basically) confirmed through its owners that news on its second season, named FCF 2.0, will be coming mid September, specifically either September 14th or September 16th.

More news actually came too. Owner of the league, Sohrob Farudi has basically doubled his net worth through crypto and is planning on creating two new expansion teams with one of them not owned by celebrities at all but by a community - the NFT community on opensea. For anyone not aware of what NFT’s are, to simplify, they’re basically online material that can be bought and sold and whoever buys it, has exclusive rights to it, this is bought through a website with crypto.

The importance of this isn’t really realized by people that aren’t technical but the assumption by the small amount of people that cover this league is that NFTs like this usually go for hundreds of thousands of dollars and with the league selling everything from the team itself, it’s logo, drafting, play calling, etc, league income should be boosted and the team will easily become the richest team in the league. Don’t really know the consequences of this yet but it could really change the landscape of the league. One guy purchasing the ability to draft that week for that team or choosing the playbook or even more, being able to bring better players to the league through a financial boom.
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Josh Gordon is signing with the Chiefs, which would technically make him the first FCFer to go the NFL in the regular season. Of course, that comes with a huge asterisk (being an ex Pro Bowler and all), so it's not like somebody brought Toivo back on.
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Johnny Manziel won't have to call plays.....either this makes him better, or he'll have FANS to blame this time!
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League posted some updates on Thursday.
-Spring 2022 start
-10 game season
-8 teams (expansion from 4) with a plan to reach 20 in the coming years
-Hub stadium most likely will remain in ATL.
-Plan to have 2k fans a game, can’t add more right now cause of COVID.
-Former NFL players are going to join the league again.
-New partnership with Peacock.
-Broadcast deal with NBCLX.
-NFTs announced, basically fans will buy a token that allow them and an exclusive community to call plays and make decisions for the team. Proceeds of sales will go towards the team, considering these NFTs will probably average at 1500$ a token, should make the league some money.

People raving mainly about the NBC deal. I don’t know what NBCLX is, but it is a broadcast deal and the best any indoor league has right now. Considering the only other competition is the IFL which just had a major franchise established, should make the FCF look more legitimate. The fact plays should be mainly called by an exclusive community for two of the expansion teams, playcalling should improve too.
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FCF is apparently selling tickets now.

Ranging from $20 for standing room tickets to the $5,000 "Ballerz Experience."
https://www.tixr.com/groups/fcf/events/ ... sion-38892

They also have a training camp roster, but I don't see it publicly posted. Their online roster is still the same as last year's.
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The interesting thing with this league imo is how much they’re wanting to grow, in their discords they’ve said they’d like to have a bubble overseas eventually and have been open about wanting to add fan controlled baseball, basketball, and cricket in the next few years also they built their arena this year. The expenses are gonna go up especially in doing multiple sports with whole new sets of athletes to at need to be paid, well see how it pays off.
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herns wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:37 pm The interesting thing with this league imo is how much they’re wanting to grow, in their discords they’ve said they’d like to have a bubble overseas eventually and have been open about wanting to add fan controlled baseball, basketball, and cricket in the next few years also they built their arena this year. The expenses are gonna go up especially in doing multiple sports with whole new sets of athletes to at need to be paid, well see how it pays off.
They are apparently being funded by Crypto.
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We have confirmation that Manziel will be back.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/335 ... -eyes-over
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