Also, they wanted England and both the London Monarchs and Scottish Claymores folded while the league had a much stronger presence in Germany, with the league effectively being NFL Deutschland at the end.
It was 5 in Germany plus Amsterdam I think?
Because they wanted the English money first.
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No, there’s no Saudi money here. You simply have a league desperate for franchise buyers. This is no grand plan; it is fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants league operation and I would really want to know if these guys will end up dotting the T’s and dashing the I’s.
If this is legit they may have actually delivered some big markets. And that makes it all the more confusing they'd bring in Dodge City, Salina, Rapid City, Odessa, or Billings.
I'm starting to wonder if there's some Saudi money backing this quietly. The AFL team they announced in Everett was an amateur outdoor team last year; the guy who ran the team called the AFL to ask about getting tryouts for some of his guys and by the end of the conversation he was an owner and is somehow converting an amateur outdoor team into a professional arena team and covering a 200K expansion fee and 1000 bucks per player per game?
Such a weird league. They literally held their announcement of the Iowa franchise the other day in somebody's back yard, then today they possibly leak teams in Philly, Austin, Denver, Nashville, and St Louis?
Hopefully there's real money somewhere behind the scenes. Because otherwise I have no idea how CIF teams that were paying guys between 75 and 300 bucks per game last season are suddenly going to afford 1000 bucks a game.
Yeah, I was speculating there might have been Saudi money because the rumor at that moment was an imminent announcement of teams in major cities like Philly, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, St. Louis, and Austin. Obviously that didn't happen, I was just saying that for a group to place start-up teams in those six cities out of the blue there would have to have been some serious cash behind it. The current league is almost all teams absorbed from smaller indoor pro or even outdoor amateur leagues, very few straight up expansion franchises.
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