herns wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:04 pm
That article didn’t just seem anti spring football, there was some lines that were just anti football
When he starts off with the years-old "Trump bankruptcy" tripe (when the league was already tens of millions in the hole when he got in) you know what you're in for, and, as expected, it's not good.
The "best" of:
After its inaugural season the USFL looked like it might have found a niche for itself but its owners, led by the blustering Trump, quickly overreached, expanding from six teams to 18 despite receiving only $13 million in annual television revenue.
There's not a league in existence that ever expanded by 12 teams. Merger, sure, but not actual expansion (the NBA doubled back in the late 60s, but the most they ever added in one season was three). I'm sure he gets the "Well he meant
by six to 18" benefit of the doubt here
Of course the constant back-and-forth to what the USFL actually was: Was it a money-losing failure that couldn't keep interest? Or was it a star-studded alternative to the NFL that Trump and Eddie Einhorn drove into the ground? But I guess that's how today's media works, you can make two totally opposing viewpoints both right!
And last but not least (triple roll coming) effects of the pandemic. The NFL lost about $4B from it--I guess as a shot to why the XFL didn't play on, hardly unscathed (although as I said a year ago, they and the other ten-figure leagues could withstand it, the startups hardly have that luxury)
If Woods' new title is as a glorified PR guy, and you have to sell these clowns, good luck