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Not Crimson Tide football, but interesting none the less. I heard about this on the radio today and looked it up when I got home.

The New USFL

Is Alabama ready to support spring football again, and is Jackie Sherrill really the right choice for GM/Head Coach? :rolleyes:

Jackie Sherrill - Former Head Coach of the Mississippi State Bulldogs & Texas A&M Aggies, has joined the USFL and will be the General Manager and Head Coach for the Alabama team.
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Is this a joke, or is it real? First i've heard of it. I thought it was a pretty good league when it was going 25 years ago. I'm all for it if it will last more than 3 years.

RTR:BigA:
 
If you go to Coaching Candidates you can essentially apply for a coaching vacancy. It says if you have been a college or professional coach or player, then to leave some data. I wonder if they count college flag football. :biggrin:
 
Bama4Ever831 said:
If you go to Coaching Candidates you can essentially apply for a coaching vacancy. It says if you have been a college or professional coach or player, then to leave some data. I wonder if they count college flag football. :biggrin:
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It could be an job for all the coaches Nick Saban drove out of college football.
 
I was living in Memphis when the first USFL started. Went to the first game. The Memphis Grizzlies against ...um.. Some team... It's been awhile.

Hope the USFL doesn't return to B'ham. Sorry folks. I think pro football breeds boorish behavior on the part of fans, and it spills over to the college game.

I'm now hunkered down and prepared to ignore the incoming. ;)
 
BamaFossil said:
I was living in Memphis when the first USFL started. Went to the first game. The Memphis Grizzlies against ...um.. Some team... It's been awhile.

Hope the USFL doesn't return to B'ham. Sorry folks. I think pro football breeds boorish behavior on the part of fans, and it spills over to the college game.

I'm now hunkered down and prepared to ignore the incoming. ;)
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The Memphis franchise of the WFL was called the Southmen. The team logo had a grizzly on it and fans began calling them the Grizzlies. The USFL team was known as the Showboats.
 
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I really enjoyed watching the Stallions. It was always great to see former Bama players continue football. Joey Jones, Jackie Cline and Paul Ott Carruth were among my childhood heroes at the capstone and it was fantastic to be able to watch and support them locally with the Stallions.
 
Call me a pessimist but I don't see the USFL being revived - not in this economy or the next. To be honest, I don't overly care for the NFL and I live in an NFL town. ok...it's town with an NFL team, but it's a college football town.

To make it work, there would have to be TON of capital, more organization than a year would allow for, greater talent than the next best thing that would be vying for the consumer dollar and the patience to survive until the media buys in and the NFL decides to be charitable. It would take all those, and with the state of american sports....it would be below MLS and televised Bowling...on par w/ figure skating.
 
BamaFossil said:
I was living in Memphis when the first USFL started. Went to the first game. The Memphis Grizzlies against ...um.. Some team... It's been awhile.

Hope the USFL doesn't return to B'ham. Sorry folks. I think pro football breeds boorish behavior on the part of fans, and it spills over to the college game.

I'm now hunkered down and prepared to ignore the incoming. ;)
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Memphis Showboats with Walter Lewis and Reggie White .
 
Bud said:
Call me a pessimist but I don't see the USFL being revived - not in this economy or the next. To be honest, I don't overly care for the NFL and I live in an NFL town. ok...it's town with an NFL team, but it's a college football town.

To make it work, there would have to be TON of capital, more organization than a year would allow for, greater talent than the next best thing that would be vying for the consumer dollar and the patience to survive until the media buys in and the NFL decides to be charitable. It would take all those, and with the state of american sports....it would be below MLS and televised Bowling...on par w/ figure skating.
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Little-known factoid: PBA bowling outdraws a bunch of sports, including hockey, and did so even before the NHL moved to Versus or whatever channel they're on now. It pulls a consistent 1.0 share or more even while up against the NFL on Sundays on ESPN. That's one reason CBS has jumped in with shows the last two years.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming. :)
 
I went to several of the Stallions games and enjoyed it. No one will be FORCED to go. :)
 
Every Spring, you hear talk of a new spring league.

Off-season football never works, unless it's arena ball....which has low overhead.
 
BamaFossil said:
Hope the USFL doesn't return to B'ham. Sorry folks. I think pro football breeds boorish behavior on the part of fans, and it spills over to the college game.
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yeah, because without pro football, college football fans would be saints. Just ask anyone at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge or Sanford Stadium in Athens. They would all be perfect ladies and gentlemen were in not for the Saints and the Falcons!
 
It's On A Slab said:
Every Spring, you hear talk of a new spring league.

Off-season football never works, unless it's arena ball....which has low overhead.
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But with the Arena league canceling their season this year, there might be an opening for another league.

Wasn't there talk of some kind of spring semi-pro league last year - something about an Alabama team composed mostly of former Bama and Auburn players? All American Football League?
 
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