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Alliance of American football league...what u think?

Jmac

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Starts on Feb 9 2019. 8 teams to start off (first team announced to be in Orlando). Steve Spurrier first head coach. 2 1/2 hour game length with 30 seconds between plays. No kickoffs. CBS to carry the games. What do you think....do you want more football?

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1 hour ago, TheCasillas said:

Why is it always Orlando for these types of leagues?

I think it’s a few things. 

I believe he city of Orlando owns an actual stadium. Probably easy to make a deal to use the stadium during off season of college and pro football. 

Orlando is a decent sized market. Central of Florida and only and hour or so from Tampa, 2 from Jacksonville. Probably gets a nice size tv coverage which = $$$ for advertisers.

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6 minutes ago, Paintballr said:

I think it’s a few things. 

I believe he city of Orlando owns an actual stadium. Probably easy to make a deal to use the stadium during off season of college and pro football. 

Orlando is a decent sized market. Central of Florida and only and hour or so from Tampa, 2 from Jacksonville. Probably gets a nice size tv coverage which = $$$ for advertisers.

Flights from everywhere are pretty cheap too because of Disney. Like Vegas.

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19 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

2 1/2 hour games???

NFL games avg. 2 hours and 52 minutes. They want to shave that back to keep it at a faster pace. We will see how they achieve this.

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