AAF has Suspended Orperations

funnyb25 · 04-02-19, 12:47 PM

clockwise1965 · 04-02-19, 12:49 PM

Not surprised.

Kermit · 04-02-19, 12:49 PM

At least Johnny Football has at least one AAF war story to share with his grandchildren.

Easy-Rider 66 · 04-02-19, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

At least Johnny Football has at least one AAF war story to share with his grandchildren.

funnyb25 · 04-02-19, 12:56 PM

It was a really bad product from up top all the way down to the field. I hope the operations stay suspended.

badgerguy · 04-02-19, 12:57 PM

AAF is dead

It was a good run. League suspended.

badgerguy · 04-02-19, 12:58 PM

Nvm. I see Kermit started a thread.

funnyb25 · 04-02-19, 12:58 PM

Tremendous death

dlowilly · 04-02-19, 12:58 PM

Damn

Didn't think it was too bad

chargers4222 · 04-02-19, 12:59 PM

Originally posted by funnyb25

It was a really bad product from up top all the way down to the field. I hope the operations stay suspended.

It really wasn't a bad product whatsoever.

Mr KLC · 04-02-19, 01:01 PM

Really thought they would eventually have a shot at a minor league like arrangement with the NFL down the line.

Plaza23 · 04-02-19, 01:01 PM

That sucks. I like betting football more than any other sport.

seaborneq · 04-02-19, 01:02 PM

Noooooo. Say it ain't so. I never watched a minute of it.

Hman · 04-02-19, 01:02 PM

USFL needs to come back

Plaza23 · 04-02-19, 01:05 PM

Originally posted by Mr KLC

Really thought they would eventually have a shot at a minor league like arrangement with the NFL down the line.

I don't think the position players would be conditioned well enough to play a full year of football. The closest minor league football operation is pulling QBs out of the Arena League, but that really hasn't happened since Kurt Warner.

The World League of American Football was around for a few years though. Surprised it doesn't come back.

Mr KLC · 04-02-19, 01:05 PM

Will be interesting to see what strategy Vince McMahon and company employ with the XFL next year after seeing this happen so quickly.

KVB · 04-02-19, 01:12 PM

I think an investor has already bailed them out once this season.

The goals of the league were to fill the primetime TV slots that were missing after the NFL and possibly to turn it into some kid of development league.

NFLPA had some words about that.

And...maybe viewers really do need a little time off from football to get hungry for it again.

Good posts KLC and I would imagine the XFL has to take a totally different approach, make it a slightly different game. Either way, not being the NFL will hurt ratings.

The AAF was hoping the NFL association would be enough. I know they aren't women, and the AAF wasn't a terrible product, but it still reminds me a bit of the NBA backing the WNBA.

The NBA is on the hook for the losses, the NFL was smart enough to avoid that.

5mike5 · 04-02-19, 01:32 PM

Shocker.

Cuse0323 · 04-02-19, 01:37 PM

If it weren’t for SBR, I wouldn’t even know it existed. They didn’t do a great job promoting the league. Still have no clue what channel they even broadcast on.

Philmill · 04-02-19, 01:50 PM

I thought the games where entertaining.... the players played hard....

I hope the try to keep it going...

Brock Landers · 04-02-19, 01:59 PM

Remember week 1

People and the media were going bonkers over the TV ratings LOL

The General · 04-02-19, 01:59 PM

Surprised that polian got involved. He prob made some good coin in the process.

The General · 04-02-19, 02:00 PM

I enjoy the league though.

danshan11 · 04-02-19, 02:15 PM

sucks I really enjoyed it, football all year would be awesome and the product was decent!

Mr KLC · 04-02-19, 03:38 PM

I read somewhere that the XFL was contemplating drafting kids out of college earlier than the mandatory 3 year waiting period that the NFL mandates. Kids that don't want the college experience, and just want to get paid, would make somewhere in the $50000-$100,000 vicinity, and then take out an insurance policy for any potential lost wages from a career ending injury.

funnyb25 · 04-02-19, 03:51 PM

Originally posted by Cuse0323

If it weren’t for SBR, I wouldn’t even know it existed. They didn’t do a great job promoting the league. Still have no clue what channel they even broadcast on.

Yup. Garbage.

MCherry281 · 04-02-19, 03:54 PM

These leagues have to get on a big channel or they will never make it. Week 1 had big ratings because it was on CBS and then went off into channels a lot of people don't have.

cankid · 04-02-19, 04:04 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

That didn't last long. Good thing Kaepernick didn't get that 20 million dollar contract.

MSN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/aaf-to-suspend-operations-report-says/ar-BBVwKdD?ocid=spartandhp

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/TheAAF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAAF</a> 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.</p>— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1113119330185736192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >April 2, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Kermit's always has good info and is well informed, thanks for the breaking news

stealthyburrito · 04-02-19, 04:07 PM

Bad news for the XFL.

Nobody wants to watch low to mid tier talent

Snowball · 04-02-19, 04:28 PM

Give us Rugby not American wimp ball.

jjgold · 04-02-19, 04:50 PM

dlowilly · 04-02-19, 07:02 PM

Originally posted by stealthyburrito

Bad news for the XFL.

Nobody wants to watch low to mid tier talent

That can't be it though because College football gets good ratings. Maybe try a shorter play clock and clock stoppages on 1st down like college does. I find it entertaining to watch two crap MAC defenses deal with a play every 15 seconds

TheMoneyShot · 04-02-19, 07:12 PM

Originally posted by Mr KLC

Will be interesting to see what strategy Vince McMahon and company employ with the XFL next year after seeing this happen so quickly.

I don't think Vince has a prayer to be honest. Apparently he wants a 2nd beat down?

Didn't watch one football game. Wanted to tune in.... was preoccupied with other things. NFL will live forever.

TheGuesser · 04-03-19, 07:16 AM

It wasn't horrid football, and it would be a win/win for the NFL to allow its bottom roster players to play there. Something bigger than that caused this suspension. Talk of the new owner stealing some kind of proprietary gambling platforms the AAF had created. Over my paygrade. Wonder how and when season bets will be settled for those of us stupid enough to make them. . https://deadspin.com/reports-the-aaf...ain-1833747506

Also think a decent amount of AAF players will be signed for NFL training camp, and some will make teams.