Saw this video on YouTube of The Rock and his team discussing with ESPN their creation of the UFL which .. “The United Football League, a powerful combination of the XFL and USFL, will provide passionate sports fans with an entertaining, innovative and action-packed season” - ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro
@Huerisitc I figured you’d especially appreciate this. I’m actually looking forward to this league and going to give it a legitimate try.
https://youtu.be/YuQf34I3RnU?si=Xk_JnOOHwTAU871FDid the rock shrink or is that chick huge?
You were 100% against it last year, so what made you change your mind?
I was concerned Fox would try to push the XFL out so I guess this is a decent outcome although I would rather have seen them stay independent.
Funny now that they made it the corporate interests have decided to join them (I'm impressed they were able to read the writing on the wall this quickly) and probably try to wrest control from the inside.
I hope the XFL read that contract they signed because saying you have 50 percent means nothing unless your only in it for the money.
It's the same thing the futures markets do to control securities.
So basically it boils down to fox bought 50% of the xfl for IIRC $150million (what they spent to make and play a season of the usfl).
I'd say they got quite a deal.
I don't have the time nor the inclination to look into it but I wonder how this is going to effect how players from this league and colleges go into the draft if at all.
Specifically I'm wondering if they wrote into the rules that players are screwed like the college kids with capped rookie contracts when getting picked up for the nfl?
Lol man, you know that use to be his xgf ? (I know right). I wasn't necessarily dead set against any of these other leagues. I've had good buddies play in a few of them and have certainly supported the idea, I've just found them difficult to watch as some of them are just so watered down and stray too far from the game of regular football. I do love the idea of just 1 of these leagues existing as there's simply not enough talent for a multitude of league to be going on at one time. If there's only just one, there's going to be some exciting players who end up getting a shot at the NFL, as well as some x-NFL'rs who will finish out their careers in a league like this and that I find fun/cool.
Wow the amount of backups playing this week has to be a record!
Yupp and this is why we cut out the last week of the season ( of course as we all know). Still looking forward to tomorrows final Sunday of sitting on the couch so long all day watching my favorite thing that I end up farting a hole in to the sofa cushion.
