LadyStanley
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Once again, the XFL and USFL are back. And once again, we ask … why?
The XFL and USFL are back because America loves football ... and broadcasters have an inventory need to fill.
Spring football counting on fans to tune into XFL and USFL games
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HisIceness
This is Hurricanes Hockey
I mean, best of luck to them but even NCAA football is getting stale for me. Football in the Spring is just weird.
I do wonder if people will be football out by the time the Usfl starts their season. Don’t think both these spring leagues will survive.
Why do people keep thinking that spring football is a good idea? Hasn't the long history of utter failure of the concept been enough to finally get people to give up on the idea?
Ideally you’d love to see some type of agreement with the nfl. Where basically there are 8 teams and an entire division supplies players for each team with their PS players since they have 16 of them this 64 players less vets.
You ideally want to use players who have just been on the PS the whole season or got into the lineup 3 times or less during the season to give them reps. A short season of 8-10 games.
But I really think there isn’t a market for 2 spring leagues and football going that late.
Kirk Van Houten
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ESPN adjusts XFL schedule as viewership remains low
ESPN is elevating three upcoming XFL telecasts to more traditional networks as viewership continues to hover in the six figures.
www.sportsmediawatch.com
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No Fun Shogun
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Still no Chicago team for either league, so I frankly still don't care. At least if there was a Chicago team, I'd maybe have a passing interest in either, but as it stands now these leagues seem to be interested in automatically having a national brand despite not remotely having a brand appeal nor having a footprint where most people live. All for a staggeringly low quality version of the game.
awfulwaffle
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St. Louis just had 38k people show up for their game yesterday. I'd say that's great progress. It was fun to watch on tv because the crowd was into it.
STL wasn't really surprising. They averaged roughly 28.5k for the previous incarnation of the XFL. Tickets are pretty cheap, too.
The consensus before the season was; "this will work in STL, will it work anywhere else?"
No Fun Shogun
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STL is a legit NFL market that got jobbed hardcore by Kroenke. This is them being football fans just as much as it’s the market collectively trying to show a prospective NFL buyer that their market works for pro football.
And if anything, the league waiting this long to have a home game in their strongest market is inane.
And if anything, the league waiting this long to have a home game in their strongest market is inane.
Kirk Van Houten
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News: MLB-RSNs, USFL, XFL
An update on how Major League Baseball is handling the RSN collapse. Plus: scheduling news for the USFL and XFL.
www.sportsmediawatch.com
ESPN announced Monday that it has moved a third XFL game off of FX, replacing the network’s primetime DC-Orlando game April 2 with a St. Louis-Houston matinee on ESPN. DC-Orlando will now air on ESPN April 1 in a window originally set aside of San Antonio-Vegas, which moves up to ESPN2 in an afternoon window originally occupied by St. Louis-Houston.
NBC is set to carry a primetime game following the Kentucky Derby on May 6 and also has a pair of primetime playoff games — including the championship on July 1. FOX has six primetime games, including three straight on Sunday nights in June.
The USFL will get a slot that usually belong to the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Funny they lost 2 football teams and they’re called “ hardcore” while LA continues to get crapped on for losing team . I hate double standards.
No Fun Shogun
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That'd be a good point if I had said anything negative about LA as a market, but even beyond that there's a pretty big world of difference between two teams leaving the second largest market for much smaller markets compared to a team leaving during an economic downswing for a faster growing market (Cardinals) and a team leaving a market merely because the owner wanted to be the big boy in a larger market (Rams).
And bigger markets attract greater scrutiny and ridicule than smaller markets. Them's the breaks.
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The XFL gets the post Kentucky Derby slot? Could be big ratingsNews: MLB-RSNs, USFL, XFL
An update on how Major League Baseball is handling the RSN collapse. Plus: scheduling news for the USFL and XFL.
ESPN announced Monday that it has moved a third XFL game off of FX, replacing the network’s primetime DC-Orlando game April 2 with a St. Louis-Houston matinee on ESPN. DC-Orlando will now air on ESPN April 1 in a window originally set aside of San Antonio-Vegas, which moves up to ESPN2 in an afternoon window originally occupied by St. Louis-Houston.
NBC is set to carry a primetime game following the Kentucky Derby on May 6 and also has a pair of primetime playoff games — including the championship on July 1. FOX has six primetime games, including three straight on Sunday nights in June.
The USFL will get a slot that usually belong to the Stanley Cup Playoffs
Kirk Van Houten
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XFL hits new lows opposite tournament
The XFL had its least-watched week yet opposite the NCAA Tournament, posting its four smallest audiences of the season.
www.sportsmediawatch.com
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