USFL official announcement next week

[herns]

https://twitter.com/dylansmithal/status ... 30272?s=21

He is one of the local reporters and said that it was announced to the senate that fox is doing their rollout of news next week

[4th&long]

https://twitter.com/dylansmithal/status ... 30272?s=21

He is one of the local reporters and said that it was announced to the senate that fox is doing their rollout of news next week

Awesome - good find!

[laxtreme56]

I wonder what the holdup is. Friday is the international day of bad press releases (AFL 2.0 announced ceasing of operations the Friday after Thanksgiving) so I doubt we get a news conference tomorrow. Maybe next week? Things have become quiet all of a sudden.

[4th&long]

I wonder what the holdup is. Friday is the international day of bad press releases (AFL 2.0 announced ceasing of operations the Friday after Thanksgiving) so I doubt we get a news conference tomorrow. Maybe next week? Things have become quiet all of a sudden.

FOX/USFL probably trying to get their ducks in a row for a PR splash and don't want the news to look reactive or conflated with XFL news which BTW is generating NO buzz. Unless the governments involved are playing games.

They'll announce when they are ready to make a splash and they will likely leak info ahead of time to get buzz going.

[MGB01]

I wonder what the holdup is. Friday is the international day of bad press releases (AFL 2.0 announced ceasing of operations the Friday after Thanksgiving) so I doubt we get a news conference tomorrow. Maybe next week? Things have become quiet all of a sudden.

FOX/USFL probably trying to get their ducks in a row for a PR splash and don't want the news to look reactive or conflated with XFL news which BTW is generating NO buzz. Unless the governments involved are playing games.

They'll announce when they are ready to make a splash and they will likely leak info ahead of time to get buzz going.

Announcing league execs isn't meant to generate buzz, it's meant to say 'yes we're a thing and operating' at the very least.

Meanwhile, T-five months...........

[laxtreme56]

I wouldn't say no buzz. Let's compare Google trends XFL vs. USFL. https://trends.google.com/trends/explor ... Fm%2F0hd2b

[4th&long]

I wouldn't say no buzz. Let's compare Google trends XFL vs. USFL. https://trends.google.com/trends/explor ... Fm%2F0hd2b

Neither are generating much, what I said was USFL will likely leak news to get some buzz going when ready while XFL announcement has generated little. It hasn't. Looks like media taking a wait and see with XFL.

[johnnyangryfuzzball]

Neither are generating much, what I said was USFL will likely leak news to get some buzz going when ready while XFL announcement has generated little. It hasn't. Looks like media taking a wait and see with XFL.

The XFL(3.0) is over a year away. Establishing the executive team is the first step in that regard. There are still a LOT more steps to go before they return to the field and there is still time.

In contrast, the USFL(2.0?) is less than four months away from its target kickoff date. By this point in the process with XFL(2.0), they had all their teams, stadiums, coaches, TV deal, and players allocated. The USFL has a nonbinding and as-yet unfunded MOU with one city--Birmingham, the Pro Football Graveyard of the South. They probably have some coaches. They have no teams. They have no players. And there's rumors that Fox is unsuccessfully trying to spin off some of its content to NBC. When you have only one small market, that's not going to fly. Football fans are not going to flock to a league like that with no local connections and no distinctions in identity other than a name. "So, which team are you rooting for? The Birmingham Stallions, or the Birmingham Generals? Or maybe the Birmingham Invaders..."

This isn't The Spring League. I'm starting to think that Fox is having some buyer's remorse with Woods, and we're seeing it with the delays.

[Tank55]

It would have been funny if instead of locking down all these USFL trademarks, they just pursued all the old Birmingham trademarks. Could have had the Stallions, Barracudas, Thunderbolts, Fire, Vulcans, and Iron.

[herns]

Neither are generating much, what I said was USFL will likely leak news to get some buzz going when ready while XFL announcement has generated little. It hasn't. Looks like media taking a wait and see with XFL.

The XFL(3.0) is over a year away. Establishing the executive team is the first step in that regard. There are still a LOT more steps to go before they return to the field and there is still time.

In contrast, the USFL(2.0?) is less than four months away from its target kickoff date. By this point in the process with XFL(2.0), they had all their teams, stadiums, coaches, TV deal, and players allocated. The USFL has a nonbinding and as-yet unfunded MOU with one city--Birmingham, the Pro Football Graveyard of the South. They probably have some coaches. They have no teams. They have no players. And there's rumors that Fox is unsuccessfully trying to spin off some of its content to NBC. When you have only one small market, that's not going to fly. Football fans are not going to flock to a league like that with no local connections and no distinctions in identity other than a name. "So, which team are you rooting for? The Birmingham Stallions, or the Birmingham Generals? Or maybe the Birmingham Invaders..."

This isn't The Spring League. I'm starting to think that Fox is having some buyer's remorse with Woods, and we're seeing it with the delays.

I wouldn’t say they have no teams, they have none announced other than the stallions. I also wouldn’t use the XFL 2.o as a guideline for when info should be out for either league (xfl 3 or usfl2). There also wasn’t really a delay with the fox announcement coming because different reporters were reporting different things. I think what gets underestimated is that fox owns the league so the nhl has a $2 billion tv deal and averages around 1 million views per game, imagine what the network is making off that if they’re paying $2 billion for the product. That’s how this league plans on making money instead of a tv deal generating money the moneys generated by just being on tv.