A league to compete against the NFL

• Non

  

  I'd rather see like a backyard football league.
  
  Maybe have the coaches be experienced college or professional coaches.
  
  But then hold open tryouts to figure out the rosters. The players could come from anywhere.
  
  Maybe every NFL team has a team made up of their fans.
  
  They would have a tryout at their stadium and then it will end up being a fan football league. Browns fans vs. Raiders fans, Steelers fans vs. Eagles fans
  
  Not sure how you would keep the people from being truthful, though.
• jordo212000

  

  se-alum;526823 wrote:Do you seriously believe the NFL would pay any attention to guys that didn't play college ball? High schoolers would go to this hypothetical league, and be lost in obscurity. The NFL knows that college ball is their best farm system. If you were a GM for an NFL team, would you rather draft a kid that played at the highest level of college football against future pros or a kid that has played in some 2nd rate league against guys that couldn't cut it in the NFL and other kids just out of high school??

  
  Like trep said, of the guys at the "highest level" of college football, the majority of them now work at Citgo. Guys in the UFL (or any other competing pro sports league) played at the highest level of college football and probably also played in the NFL. These guys have actually played professionally. Look at Ohio State, that maybe have 6-7 guys who will get drafted this year. A team in the UFL more than likely has more than 6-7 guys who played in the NFL/professionally.
• Sage

  

  NFL would crush you.
• jordo212000

  

  Sage;527543 wrote:NFL would crush you.

  
  false
• Non

  

  I like my idea. Sort of a football league/reality show.
  
  Every NFL team has a team made up of fans/random Joes from that area that have to go through a rigorous tryout.
  
  They arrive on Friday and go through a screening process, registration, introduction.
  
  Saturday is a combine day where they go through different drills and show what they got and then some mini games on Saturday night and Sunday.
  
  At the end they decide on a team.
  
  They could have ceremonial coaches like Bernie Kosar for the Browns, Jerome Bettis for the Steelers and then more hands-on coaches to actually run things and call plays and stuff.
• j_crazy

  

  If the NFL locks out, the UFL might take off.
• hoops23

  

  jordo with another lame ass thread.
• Nate

  I was with everything you said until "furthermore you could also cut the legs of the NCAA by allowing kids from high school to make the jump to the league and enter the draft."
  
  
  
  
  
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Create a relegation system where the UFL gets more teams and the bottom 2 or 3 of the NFL head down to the UFL and the top 3 from the UFL come to the NFL. It could work
• Al Bundy

  Competing leagues have been tried several times. Only the AAFC and AFL were able to have any franchises survive, and those franchises were absorbed into the NFL through mergers. One thing that I thinks makes it very challenging today would be where to put the franchises. When the AAFC and AFL had teams, they were able to put them into cities that could support a pro football franchise. I think we have pretty much reached a saturation point for cities that can/will support pro football.