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Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:30 am
by admin
Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:11 pm
by 4th&long
Ouch C for Panthers hurt - likely out.

Good thing I didn't bet Mich - lets see how replacement does

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:15 pm
by adeehd
The USFL “brands” have been awful for fan attendance. 

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:15 pm
by MarkNelson
these defenses are jacked up

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:16 pm
by XFL4ever
Defenses came to play !!

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:16 pm
by MarkNelson
adeehd wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:15 pm The USFL “brands” have been awful for fan attendance. 
 
Unfortunately, this will be a story after today. DC is going to bring the fans.
 

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:29 pm
by 4th&long
MarkNelson wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:16 pm
adeehd wrote: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:15 pm The USFL “brands” have been awful for fan attendance. 
 
Unfortunately, this will be a story after today. DC is going to bring the fans.
 
Mich had the ticket issue and Memphis and Birm are wayyyy smaller markets.  That's the facts.   The league needs to set expectations to avoid whining over poor attendance.  The focus should be on the FB then the TV then the attendance.  And what' about Houston - branded XFL.

Here's XFL avg attendance last year:
LV 6028
Orlando 8931
Houston 11768
Arlington 12054
Seattle 12328
DC 14269
SA 14982
StLouis 35104
Getting worried for 2-5k fans a game is not productive.  Making adjustments and improving the numbers is what they need to do.

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:50 pm
by MGB01
Mich had the ticket issue and Memphis and Birm are wayyyy smaller markets.  That's the facts.   The league needs to set expectations to avoid whining over poor attendance.  The focus should be on the FB then the TV then the attendance.  And what' about Houston - branded XFL.
Here's XFL avg attendance last year:
LV 6028
Orlando 8931
Houston 11768
Arlington 12054
Seattle 12328
DC 14269
SA 14982
StLouis 35104
Getting worried for 2-5k fans a game is not productive.  Making adjustments and improving the numbers is what they need to do.
No no no, you wanna keep the USFL/XFL war going you don't get to pick and choose, there are obviously those inside the league (I'll bet roughly, oh, 100% are from the Moose side) that do, so they can own this.

And Houston branded? What about it? It's the Gamblers redressed as the Roughnecks in their ode to the Outlaws/Blitz switcheroo from 40 years ago. In your words: really?.........................really?

And as far as last year's attendance, is there supposed to be a point somewhere in there? Six drew at least 10K, Orlando will never see an alt league again, and Vegas looked like StL last night in comparison to Memphis. Why haven't we ever got any USFL figs?

So in the meantime, it's been almost three years since Eric Shanks took A-Rod out to the ball game, and apparently was less productive than Tiger Woods and Yasir Al-Rumayyan's recent golf date, and we're holding up the progress of the league for one market that "deserves" an umpteenth chance and one of the least impressive billionaires ever to exist, got it.

But I'm glad it was backhandedly confirmed in the other thread that Marchand's hit on the league last year was just that.

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:58 pm
by MarkNelson
Stallions cannot figure out the red zone = three field goals.

Re: Game thread: Birmingham Stallions at Michigan Panthers, Sun Apr 7, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:58 pm
by MarkNelson
The USFL/XFL tribalism is real. Embrace it :)