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Re: Big Week Upcoming for XFL

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DavedaHammer wrote: Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:08 am
GDAWG wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:57 am
DavedaHammer wrote: Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:15 am

Find college stadiums that have an oval track like Wein Stadium in New York, Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Seat Geek Stadium in Bridgeport(Chicago) if they get rid of the stage at one of the endzones. Teams could retain the college colors and single letter logo for continuity sakes. No need to repaint the field for the pro team
Franklin Field is super busy from March to December with football and track and field events, so The University of Pennsylvania isn't going to do that. Highly unlikely that Penn and Columbia are going to say yes to any kind of pro football being played at their stadium.

Second, this is what some people who follow non NFL football don't understand: Just because there's a college stadium as an option for a city doesn't mean that pro football is going to happen. The University has to sign off on it and there's no guarantee that happens. The XFL 2.0 and XFL 2023 were lucky that the University of Houston said yes to pro football playing at their stadium. If the college says no, there's no need to harp on it. If Pennsylvania and Columbia say no (and it seems likely) to any pro football, then we should move on and try somewhere else. Can't just randomly put Oklahoma City in any of the spring leagues because there's no place to play. It's much easier for any non NFL pro football league to put a team in Columbus, Ohio (due to Historic Crew Stadium) than it is Oklahoma City.

Fans of alternative football need to be 100% realistic about where to put expansion teams. If I want an expansion team, the focus should be on MLS stadiums if one is accessible or stadiums not owned by college teams. Stadiums owned by college teams are likely the hardest to get for an alternative football league since not every university will be open to it as The University of Houston is to the XFL. Those stadiums are not realistic to land for any non NFL league if the universities say no, and this includes the CFL.

Cities like Austin, Salt Lake City, Kansas City (Kansas), Portland, Minneapolis/St. Paul, San Jose, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark (New Jersey) would all have options and would be more realistic for alternative leagues than New York City (unless a team gets put in MetLife and that would be a disaster), Oklahoma City, Milwaukee and Oakland.
CFL teams share stadiums with Canadian Universities like the Bombers/Univ. of Manitoba, Calgary Stampeders. Univ. of Calgary and the Montreal Alouette/McGill. So it not if the CFL teams are negligent in the maintenance of the stadiums. CFL teams respect the Universities demands for school conformity. If the Univ. of Houston can allow the XFL play in it's stadium, the northern schools can do so also. It helps the school's football program to share a facility with a pro team, college players get a first hand look at the college players, schools get free publicity with the school logo shown on television. added revenue to the school budget.

US MLS stadiums won't fit a CFL field. But Seat Geek Stadium in Chicago/Bridgeport might work since it's owned by the municipality of Bridgeport, but it's capacity holds 20.000. A CFL team needs 25,000 for make a profit from the gate
Both Penn and Columbia are Ivy League schools with rich and powerful alumni, they don't need the CFL to help add any revenue or give those schools any publicity. Besides, those schools are more academics driven than athletics driven and athletics isn't the end-all-be-all for Penn, Columbia or any of the Ivy League schools.
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Re: Big Week Upcoming for XFL

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What a week the XFL has had last week. It wasn't perfect (Las Vegas still doesn't have a venue) but the league has activity. Usually when a Spring Football League is announced, they start off being active for a few months and then they go radio silent for months on end, and if they are silent for more than six months, it usually means that they are never kicking off or playing any games. Remember the Freedom Football League and American Patriot League? Well the last update from the Freedom Football League was in February.....of 2021. The APL had their last update in December 2021, in which they were going to delay their season to 2023, after originally announcing plans to delay in 2021 and then in 2022. And then there's Major League Football, who hope to finally kick off in 2023 and reportedly have a shareholders meeting on December 1st.

We should know the uniforms and league schedules before the January Supplemental Draft. Those are next. Again, it has had a few bumps (news leaking before they announce it themselves plus the fiasco of a venue for Vegas, which is ending really soon), but it should be smoother sailing once the Vegas venue is announced.
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