>While Vince McMahon promises to bring back a revamped XFL in 2020, Charlie Ebersol, who is a son of McMahon's partner in the previous doomed XFL venture, Dick Ebersol, said his football league will come first. And some big NFL names will be involved.
In New York City on Tuesday, Charlie Ebersol, who directed a documentary on the XFL that aired last year as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, announced that his league, called the Alliance of American Football, plans to debut on Feb. 9, 2019, the week after Super Bowl LIII. The season will run 10 weeks and will have 50-man teams.
To help him steer the league, Ebersol brought on former NFL general manager Bill Polian, currently an analyst for ESPN. The player side will be overseen by former Pro Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu, while the team side will be guided by former USC standout and executive J.K. McKay.
Advisers to the league also will include former NFL players Hines Ward and Justin Tuck, as well as Dick Ebersol.
While McMahon's league is backed by McMahon's money, Ebersol's league is backed by others, including former Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and The Chernin Group, which, among other investments, owns a significant share of Barstool Sports.
The real key to this is that Ebersol has the TV contacts, while Vince only has the wwe network.com site.
The other key is that a league run by football people will be designed to have a developmental aspect to it.
Jackson Rodriguez
>‘more football in February
I think they’re screwing that up. The audience is fatigued from the playoffs and won’t go to wintry games.
The league that needs to happen is a developmental league that plays on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the fall
Nathaniel Bell
>Ebersol's league is backed by others...Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and The Chernin Group, which, among other investments, owns a significant share of Barstool Sports
lmao, the stadiums will serve only well-done steak with ketchup and the half time show is just going to be Jordan Peterson explaining the ideal lobster society
Josiah Harris
The only room for new sports leagues that people will get invested in is if you can draw stud jocks who have no business in college, yet aren’t quite good enough to make NFL rosters yet.
Even if the college game waters down, it will still be watchable, because the fans are invested in the school and the tradition more than the players
Anthony Murphy
>espn wew McMANon has really got them shaking in their high heels
Ethan Allen
>E!SPN promoting a league one of their own analysts was brought on to wow, really gets the noggin joggin doesnt it
>The league’s inaugural game and championship game will be broadcast on CBS and one regular-season game per week will air on CBS Sports Network. So nobody will see it.
Juan Green
none of these will succeed because they don't attract the level of talent the nfl does. a proper farm system could gain intetest but not some meme league
Joshua Howard
How to make a new gridiron football league work: >teams can only draft from universities in their region It would be able to find a market, which the XFL and whatever this shit is won't: college football fans who want to continue watching players on their favorite team play past their senior year. What percentage of the average college team ends up in the NFL? Not a lot. People develop attachments to players who aren't talented enough to make it in the NFL, and currently those players just fade away once they're no longer eligible to play. Put them on a "minor league" football team based in the same market as their college and slowly but surely you'll see these teams building up fanbases and fan loyalty. As a bonus, fans will be able to watch teams of players from their state play, instead of millionaires from all over the place chasing after cash. People would appreciate that.
A league could actually develop organically this way. Ventures like the XFL were absolutely pants on head retarded, marching out and demanding people pay attention to bullshit teams like the Memphis Maniax and trying to astroturf fanbases into existence.
Chase Phillips
mandrama faggots BTFO
Nolan Mitchell
Vince will win because he has the millions of wwe network subs and a brand name on top of that
Ebersol's league is called ALLIANCE of american football which will not sit well with the horde
Brayden Johnson
no kickoffs at all and only 2 point conversions after touch downs
I can't disagree more... why the fuck would you add more games next to NFL ones? the post-Superbowl hangover period is the perfect time, we'll get a meme league to tide us over until the draft and NHL/NBA playoffs start. literally no one would watch tuesday/wednesday games because we'd already be satiated by the sunday and monday games
Samuel Wright
>Run meme league together >Fails >Nobody tries another meme league for 17 years >you and your partners son announce second run meme leagues within months of each other pretty ironing if you ass me
Henry Smith
>Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Lefty media will shut this down hard
Brayden Lee
>watching men's lingerie football to own the libs
Dominic Hall
at least we know meme qbs wont be a thing
Jonathan Long
FUCK yeah
Lincoln Allen
>football is about to collapse due to concussion awareness >"LMAO let's start our own football league with blackjack and hookers!!!!!!!!!!!!111"
