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

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

[4th&long]

Ouch C for Panthers hurt - likely out.

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

[adeehd]

The USFL “brands” have been awful for fan attendance. 

[MarkNelson]

these defenses are jacked up

[XFL4ever]

Defenses came to play !!

[MarkNelson]

The USFL “brands” have been awful for fan attendance. 

 

Unfortunately, this will be a story after today. DC is going to bring the fans.

 

[4th&long]

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.

[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.

[MarkNelson]

Stallions cannot figure out the red zone = three field goals.

[MarkNelson]

The USFL/XFL tribalism is real. Embrace it