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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sschind" data-source="post: 777456" data-attributes="member: 10247">That's fair enough and I think it speaks to the real reason why other leagues have not succeeded.  There is no familiarity with the team or the players and the leagues don't stay around long enough for it to develop.  The only true threat to become an established league was the AFL and the NFL saw the possibility and thus we had the merger.  Since then no league has come close.   The WFL tried to poach players with offers of big money but it wasn't enough.  The same happened with the USFL.  It would take a real fan of the game of football to watch a bunch of people the never heard of put an inferior product on the the field.  even hard core college football fans wouldn't be interested because most of the big names they were used to in the college game went into the NFL. That's why, as I said before and Poker has said a few times, for any league to succeed it will need the support of the NFL and have some sort of team affiliation.  Fans may watch the Picettville Packers though if they do know the players are being developed for their favorite NFL franchise.   I just don't know how it could be done because I don' think there would be enough support for a 32 team minor league system operating within the confines of the NFL</blockquote>

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