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Derwin0

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madmadworld

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KaptainRandom

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From the looks of the mostly empty stadium seating during broadcasts of the games...
Stay Home Then
is the popular consensus.

DISCLAIMER:
I've been an AFL season ticket holder since '99
I curiously checked pricing for season tickets for local AAF team

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madmadworld

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Kaptain beat me to it. The point wasn't he thinking the prices might be too high, a whole bunch of other people did too.
Good Dinner for 2... $15 tip...lol

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Jimbo

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I watched parts of all the games over the weekend ... as far as attendance goes ... when they showed the endzones for like a Field Goal, No One was in the stands in at least one of them, maybe most of them.
 

KaptainRandom

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It occurred to me,
looking at people in stadiums,
most of the few people
at the games
are in the BellCurve of seats
around the 50 yard line.
The most expensive seat.
So...
a) people not buying 'cheap' seats?
b) stadiums allowing cheap tix to move to expensive seats?

Hmmm....

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Report: AAF was in danger of missing payroll last week before NHL owner invested

For all the good publicity the Alliance of American Football received early on, it’s still a startup business.

Like plenty of other startup businesses, the AAF might have been underfunded to start. The Athletic’s David Glenn, citing multiple sources, reported that the league was in danger of not making payroll last week, just the second week of the league’s existence.

The crisis was averted. Glenn wrote that Carolina Hurricanes majority owner Tom Dundon will be introduced as the AAF’s new chairman after investing $250 million to the AAF. The NHL owner’s investment allowed the league to meet its financial obligations.

Not a good sign two weeks in.
 

SamCdbs

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Having a business plan so poorly thought out that you cannot make payroll, in week 2, is just poor management. Income consists of, more or less, two things. TV money and live gate. They had to have some idea what the live gate would be and they certainly knew what the TV money was. Apparently no body used the common business sense to say "well, we project $X coming in, and have to pay out $Y, and Y is more than X, so this venture is foolish, let's move on to the next idea."

It seems that, among the many things modern sports owners have forgotten is that it is aberrational how much athletes make. If you paid these players a THIRD of what they now do, how many have any other realistic option? They are making $84K/year. Now I'm sure some, perhaps many, actually finished school and actually majored in something that yields $80K/year at 25 to 30 years old And God bless them. The rest? If you are telling me that you cannot find enough guys to make up 10 teams, you are just wrong.
 

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Peter Parker

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I think Derwin is right. I don't see how this league makes it without a more formal link to the NFL.
 

Peter Parker

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I understand that tehy went from 2.1 million viewers in week one to 640,000 in week 2. That plus the news about almost missing payrill makes me wonder if they will last.
 

Jimbo

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Johnny Manziel has been allocated to Memphis.
I saw that ...
He was assigned to San Antonio ... and they PASSED ... which allowed Memphis to jump in ...
I think, next week the Memphis team will see an increase in viewership ... they NEED itat 1-5.

I'm somewhat surprised that San Antonio didn't take him (maybe didn't want the potential headache), I have seen San Antonio's QB play this year and while it has been above avg (and I have watched Logan Woodside for years now, when he was at Toledo) Logan hasn't played as well as I had hoped, obviously its good enough to keep him as the starter.
I think Manzel IS much better than Most QB's in the league.
 

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