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Alliance of American Football (AAF)

Mr teX said:
Lol it is...i'm just saying if the NFL gets to the point where it's unbearable to watch, I'll go Canadian football league before i go XFL 2.0.
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This is not XFL 2.0 that will launch next year I believe

Mr teX said:
I watch, but mostly Big 12 & the high profile games & UH games if they're on TV. I may watch a game here & there if there's a particular player i like.
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Then this league sounds more up your alley TBH, 1 it's in the spring time so its not like you have to choose between the NFL, college or this. 2. you say you watch mainly the big 12 and UH, so I take it you are more of a regional fan? In this league they have a regional draft so the players you've been watching in the Big 12 and at UH who aren't quite good enough to make it to the NFL will be playing for the SA team as well as some ex Texans

Idk I think it's a cool concept for the off season. People have been complaining that the NFL needs like a triple A league so some guys can continue to develop, this seems like it can be that to me even though they aren't associated
 
There are lots of talented football players that just are not NFL talent, they can put on a good show. I've always enjoyed watching these spring leagues, but they never last and I don't expect this one or the XFL to last either.

However, you're not watching this league except on CBS Sports Network which you need cable or a CBS All Access subscription. They're only broadcasting one game from the opening weekend and that's all you'll see of 'em without CBS Sport Network access. There is no way they will survive like that, they need more TV time across a broader range of options. I don't see them selling the tickets they'll need to in order to keep the league afloat.
 
Thorn said:
There are lots of talented football players that just are not NFL talent, they can put on a good show. I've always enjoyed watching these spring leagues, but they never last and I don't expect this one or the XFL to last either.

However, you're not watching this league except on CBS Sports Network which you need cable or a CBS All Access subscription. They're only broadcasting one game from the opening weekend and that's all you'll see of 'em without CBS Sport Network access. There is no way they will survive like that, they need more TV time across a broader range of options. I don't see them selling the tickets they'll need to in order to keep the league afloat.
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what about streaming?
 
Thorn said:
Nothing about that on the AAF website.
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so when I was reading on their TV deal, it mentioned the games would be available on a free streaming service. So the AAF will have it's own app that let's you live stream the games for free as well as having integrated fantasy games in the app. B/R live will also be streaming 1 game a week.

This has nothing to do with how to watch it, but saw this while reading on the league and found it very cool

"players would earn a year's scholarship in post-secondary education for each season of play"
 
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So by getting subscriptions to Bleecher Reports Live and CBS All Access I can get six of the ten San Antonio games. The other four are on the NFL network and you have to have cable for that. Do I want to subscribe to those two services for a few months to catch those six games? Considering how much money I throw down the toilet on illegal weed and eating out all the time I can probably afford it for the two months it'll be on. So I'm considering it.
 
Well, this coming Saturday at 8PM you can watch the San Antonio team play the San Diego team, San Antonio is the home team. It's on CBS broadcast, but after that good luck in finding the games. If you have the NFL network you're all set. LOL

I know I'll be watching, because I'm always a sucker for watching the new start up football leagues. I have no idea why, I just do.

They haven't announced the team names yet for next years XFL premier. I wonder what the Houston team will be named?
 
The TV schedule for CBS Saturday night shows a pre-game show at 7PM and the San Antonio/San Diego game starting at 7:30.
 
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Sunday 0230 here in Naples.....San Diego Fleet at San Antonio Commanders will be televised on HD Channel 1. San Antonio is a Army / Air Force city, so how did they arrive at Commanders (Navy Rank)? Might've been better to call themselves the San Antonio Generals (USFL NJ Generals). Anyhow, looks like we'll be getting the games.
 
OptimisticTexan said:
Sunday 0230 here in Naples.....San Diego Fleet at San Antonio Commanders will be televised on HD Channel 1. San Antonio is a Army / Air Force city, so how did they arrive at Commanders (Navy Rank)? Might've been better to call themselves the San Antonio Generals (USFL NJ Generals). Anyhow, looks like we'll be getting the games.
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An Army commander is a senior officer who has supervisory and decision-making responsibilities. The title of commander refers to duties and does not correspond to any one pay grade. Only the Navy and Coast Guard use "commander" as an official rank.
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you know... like division commander
 
The AAF's overtime rules are quite a bit different. Each team gets the ball only once, at their own 10 yard line, and they have to go for a TD they can't kick a FG. That's a quick overtime! LOL And if the game ends with neither of them scoring, it's a tie. I actually kind of like that.
 
gwallaia said:
I’m liking it so far
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It will be something to watch between now and baseball. I like that lots of the folks are mic'd up. You can hear the coaches, and play calls. And they even had the replay official on air during the review of a challenge. Can you imagine the NFL doing that?!?! Sheeeeeyaat....that'd never happen!
 
Yeah, I liked hearing the skyjudge talking to the ref on the field.
 
Not bad for two expansion teams in an expansion league. The players have been coached pretty good, not a lot of penalties which is nice.
 
Mr teX said:
Yeah, call me a snob or whatever, but i'm not interested in watching reject NFL football players play. If the NFL gets that bad, I'll go watch the Sachatuwan roughriders..
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okay.....
you're a snob

....or whatever...
:D
 
Well that first game was very fine, especially since the Texas team won. I think the TV crew need to work on the sound, but the product on the field was good.
 
Now I have to decide what services to get for more games. Or if I subscribe for more games.
 
austins23 said:
It will be something to watch between now and baseball. I like that lots of the folks are mic'd up. You can hear the coaches, and play calls. And they even had the replay official on air during the review of a challenge. Can you imagine the NFL doing that?!?! Sheeeeeyaat....that'd never happen!
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It would be much harder to rig games with this.
 
I'm not sure of the reason why, but the coverage of the game - camera work, sound, stuff like that - is noticeably better on CBS SN and the NFL Network than on the CBS broadcast game Saturday night.
 
Thorn said:
I'm not sure of the reason why, but the coverage of the game - camera work, sound, stuff like that - is noticeably better on CBS SN and the NFL Network than on the CBS broadcast game Saturday night.
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looks pretty strange on the AAF website... sounds strange too with no announcers
 
Presley looks like somebody the Texans should bring to camp.

Runs hard and just caught a long wheel route.
 
After week one, the team that impressed me the most is Arizona. Best uniform award goes to Salt Lake, I like the understated colors of silver, light blue and white.

But I'm from Texas, so I'm rooting for San Antonio anyways.
 
Thorn said:
Yep. And so far we're in first place! LOL
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Always wanted Houston to win unless they played Dallas. Sorry was a Staubach fan. Possibly greatest but he served 6 years. Dallas did right and held their camp to accommodate him. Always wanted an all Texas SB.
 
Texecutioner said:
Good start!!

They beat out the garbage NBA in ratings already. :spit::spit:
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Interesting to see what the ratings look like once the newness wears off. I didn't watch a second of it other than the 3 or 4 minutes I tried to watch on their website where they had no announcers and it was all skycam. And that's only because JB mentioned it here. I did see on Twitter the sick INT by somebody, I think it was SA.

I doubt I'll ever get into it for the same reason I don't watch AAA baseball. But people do watch it and are interested in it and that's OK. Back when NFLE was about to close shop I suggested that they move that league here and put it in cities like San Antonio, Birmingham, Memphis, etc. Football starved Americans would follow it more than they could with it across the pond. And if it's a league that's more of a G League for the NFL instead of competing with it, I think it would do well, especially if the NFL comes in and starts backing it. The NFL almost desperately needs it. And maybe I'd be a little more interested if I knew for sure it was an NFL minor league.

Probably the worst thing that can happen to that league is the XFL coming in and depleting the talent pool even more. I don't know if both leagues can succeed. One will eventually need the NFL to step in, and I think I heard or read somewhere that that's what the AAF is eventually shooting for.
 
So I got fuboTV just to watch the AAF games. I figured I'd keep the subscription for the two months of the league then drop it, when I noticed that my fubo subscription also includes ATT SportsNet, which means I now have the Rockets and Astros. That's going to make it a little harder, mentally at least, to drop my fubo subscription when the AAF is done for their season.
 
Speedy said:
I doubt I'll ever get into it for the same reason I don't watch AAA baseball.
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It's interesting. I think it's a little more pro than AAA baseball, though. The league is going to have a bunch of guys that couldn't cut it in the pros, of course. But it also has guys that might have done OK for themselves if they had been drafted, but through the process that is the NFL draft process, they weren't tall enough or quite fast enough, or they played for an unheralded school, or what have you. Greg Ward is one good example. He was an electrifying athlete at UH, but because of his size and the unconventional QB role, no one really thought he'd be drafted. Now he's on the San Antonio squad playing WR. Perhaps Braxton Miller might have gone this route if it had existed when he left Ohio St. I also think there will be non-skill position guys that will go here to develop their game. So they may very well end up in the pros through a somewhat more circuitous route, a la AAA baseball. So I definitely get your take. I just think as a whole, the league is going to have a little more sizzle.
 
eriadoc said:
It's interesting. I think it's a little more pro than AAA baseball, though. The league is going to have a bunch of guys that couldn't cut it in the pros, of course. But it also has guys that might have done OK for themselves if they had been drafted, but through the process that is the NFL draft process, they weren't tall enough or quite fast enough, or they played for an unheralded school, or what have you. Greg Ward is one good example. He was an electrifying athlete at UH, but because of his size and the unconventional QB role, no one really thought he'd be drafted. Now he's on the San Antonio squad playing WR. Perhaps Braxton Miller might have gone this route if it had existed when he left Ohio St. I also think there will be non-skill position guys that will go here to develop their game. So they may very well end up in the pros through a somewhat more circuitous route, a la AAA baseball. So I definitely get your take. I just think as a whole, the league is going to have a little more sizzle.
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I'm not downplaying the interest. I actually hope it does well. I don't know where the money is coming from for this league, but unless the NFL eventually gets behind them, I don't see how they can keep playing in 65,000 seat stadiums. What little I did see this past weekend, there weren't a whole lot of people in the stands. It didn't look like the Alamodome even opened the upper deck. These guys might have to start playing in soccer stadiums like the Chargers yard.

And I guess I should note that part of the reason I don't watch MiLB is that it's not readily available. Even if it was though, their season runs the same as MLB and that would just be way too much baseball with the Astros playing every night.

I do follow the Astros farm teams somewhat, but only to see how certain prospects are progressing. It's not about where the team is in the standings or them really needing to win the upcoming series or anything like that.

And minor league ball is littered with guys who will never cut it in the pros as well. It's just about the up and coming top prospects getting ready and others putting the time and work in to maybe get a taste. I expect the AAF to be the latter in regards to players making an NFL roster.

Mike Trout played 2 1/2 years in the minors. Of course he was drafted out of high school, but even if some of these top end college QBs who never amount to much had somewhere to go to actually learn the pro game and get coached up, instead of being a scout team guy never really getting a chance to learn, maybe there wouldn't be so many busts. Paxton Lynch, EJ Manuel, Christian Ponder, Jake Locker, how many guys like that could have benefited getting some seasoning in, learning the pro game, before being thrown into the fire? Not saying they still would have amounted to much, but you never know.

The AAF is doing things the NFL is thinking about, i.e. the no kickoffs, so I think the NFL will eventually get behind them in turning this into a true developmental thing. And that's a good thing as I think the NFL has needed it for quite some time.

There's plenty of talent that gets missed by the NFL. We see UDFAs do good things all the time now. I like that there's a way for more of those guys to be showcased. That can only improve the game.

But it will still just be AAA baseball to me. Good for the game, needed, but not something I'm personally investing much time in. My interest in it is to see how it shakes out this summer. How many of these AAF guys come to an NFL camp, how many actually make a team?
 
Guess he's doing alright with what he's already made....
A person with knowledge of the conversation tells The Associated Press that the new Alliance of American Football spoke with Colin Kaepernick during its development about joining the league. But Kaepernick wanted $20 million or more to consider playing with the league that had its debut last weekend. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because neither side has publicly acknowledged such talks.

The Alliance says its mission is to provide opportunities for players not in the NFL to continue their careers, with a possibility they could entice NFL teams to sign them once the AAF season concludes at the end of April. The league also approached Tim Tebow, who said he wanted to continue pursuing his baseball career. Tebow currently is in the New York Mets' spring training camp.....
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...on-with-kaepernick/ar-BBTBKCc?ocid=spartandhp
 
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