Do we need another professional football league?

the problems i see: 
1) their rules remove special teams
2) their rules remove the ability for the league to gain ad revenue (who the f*** is going to pay the players?!)
3) we don't need a competing professional league we need feeder system like hockey and baseball.

id love to see a farm system go into place.. taking the pro hockey model: 

NFL - Top Professional League
AAF - Top Professional Affiliate to the NFL 
EFL/WFL (Eastern/Western Football League(s)) - Top Professional Affiliate to the AFL.

then allow for the ability to have 2-way contracts and call ups ..etc. just like other sports.

More ball to watch, works for me

and more opportunities for players 

So far, the only coach announced is Steve Spurrier.  Rick Neuheisel would like to go, too, but it's not official.

It's clear that the people launching all these new leagues are smelling blood with the NFL's ratings declining and all the controversies, but I'm skeptical.  Of all the pro leagues launched since the AFL/NFL merger (and there are a bunch nobody remembers), the only one to ever really sniff success was the USFL (until Donald Trump's ego killed it).

What made the USFL work was that they were getting huge college stars and innovative up and coming coaches to run styles of play that nobody else was doing.  As much respect as I have for Spurrier and Neuheisel, they're 71 and 57 and aren't exactly on the cutting edge of innovation anymore.

The focus of the AAF rules is odd, too.  Eliminating kickoffs and PATs doesn't seem like it'll do anything to bring in fans.  Shaving 10 seconds off the play clock won't do that much to speed up the game and eliminating commercials is going to cut into the revenue.  It looks exactly like what it is: a rich TV executive who doesn't really know football is trying to start his own league to "improve" upon things he personally doesn't get about the televised pro game.

I do think it's possible for a new football league to be successful if it's done right, but IMO the way to do it is to focus on delivering a more fun, exciting, niche version of the game that connects with fans and focus on selling tickets in places without big pro franchises in place--kind of like the minor league baseball model.  The AAF (and the new XFL) want to be the NFL and that's going to make it hard for them to come off as anything besides a pale imitation of it.

I like watching the CFL. Just wish it was TV more so you can follow the teams better.

Sign me up

Do you think they will actually play a game? Look how many new pro leagues have attempted to start and only a few have ever seen a game. UFL and XFL I think is the only one. Seems like every year a new pro league is starting then its the same cycle.

1. new league its going to be amazing
2. name teams and cities
3. hire coaches
4. draft players
5. announce a delay that it will start a year later to make sure its financially sound
6. either announce its folding before it ever started or just never hear from them again.

This is not only in the US. They tried to start a pro league in Europe about 9 or so years ago, 6 years ago they tried same thing in Brazil (apparently they are trying it again) and just a couple years ago they tried in in Australia.

I don't think any of the people doing these understand how much it costs to start and run a "pro" league.

A real minor league football league would be great as posted above. Not the beer league football that they try to pass off as "semi-pro" IM all for more football in the Spring.

Don't shoot me but I actually liked some of what the XFL was doing..I thought the camera right behind the huddle was cool..I think if they can limit salaries it could work..shoot look at all the stupid programs on now

Eliminating the try (rather than trying to improve it over & over) is long since overdue.  That was the conclusion of this historic analysis I wrote ~20 yrs. ago.

Eliminating kickoffs, not so much.

As to speeding up play, the WLAF started with 35 sec. to play the ball from the preceding dead ball.  That was the beginning of play clocks based on dead ball time rather than on ready ball time (which NFL later adopted a version of; the WLAF was in large part a rules testing bed for them), and their timing turned out to be a slightly faster pace than even Canadian football.  However, it was conducive only to offenses that were very simple pre-snap, like run & shoot, where you might have just half a dozen calls in the huddle.

There was a good video essay that analyzed how kickoffs are actually pretty boring. Even the KOR TDs are boring, they’re almost always a guy making one cut through a lane and then sprinting 80 yards.

Didn't the NFL copy a few things from the XFL? Part of the problem with the XFL was NBC, so it wasn't entirely the league's fault. I'm not going to lie, I'll probably check out the XFL in a couple years but I won't bother with the other leagues.

Heck, I even think both teams in basketball should be allowed to contest for possession of a ball after it passes thru the goal.  Like rebounding a shot whether it scores or not.  But then they should have to get the ball outside the lane before they shoot again, just to keep a player w inside position from putting in 10 layups in 10 secs.

if its that dangerous(its not) then why put kids in jeopardy at all(not a question).