OK more like a bunch of little somethings but really they don’t all amount to much (don’t get mad at me for that comment).
The plethora of college football posts (and NFL posts) coming from yours truly are coming soon and they will come in hot and heavy. Until that time (which is still a few weeks away) I figured I should fill the time with another post. But what to post about? How about all sorts of other football-related stuff that doesn’t really warrant a full post. Maybe I can even dip back to the time when I said I should become football commissioner (still waiting for the call from….well, I don’t know since that whole thing doesn’t exist).
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I know this isn’t the current XFL logo but whatever. Actually, I could have just put a pic of The Rock and you would know exactly what I was going to talk about.
I have to admit…the XFL was pretty fun to watch most of the time. Sure there were times you could tell this wasn’t NFL caliber (and maybe not even FBS caliber) but it’s minor league football and you had to expect some growing pains. They had a good TV contract although sometimes it was tough to figure out where and when the games were on. And you had the Beer Snake in D.C. How can you beat that?
I will say most of the franchises did OK. Well enough to warrant another season. Two teams I wouldn’t bother with are Vegas and Orlando. Watching games in Vegas was painful. The field they played at was awful and if they can’t get Allegiant Stadium for at least one of their games, move them. I hear San Diego is clamoring for football. As for Orlando, they just didn’t draw. And the Citrus Bowl (or whatever the fuck it’s called now) is pretty damn big so it looks horrible when only 9,000 fans show up in a 65,000 seat stadium. I’d move them to a place that really has nothing much going on in terms of outdoor pro sports and see what happens. Mobile has a pretty nice sized stadium. Same with the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery. Hell, almost anywhere in Alabama (or even Mississippi) might work. Or…..send them to Kibbie Dome. Guaranteed sellouts!
Now there is no plans to expand which is probably a good thing. Especially since the USFL looks like it will return, despite the fact it looks completely bush league. I get the telecast quality is good but that’s all the networks (and the USFL has a good set of TV contracts). The empty seats are SERIOUSLY jarring to the eyes. Next year will be the true prove-it year: all teams will play in their home stadiums. If they can’t draw at that point then they might shut its doors. At that point, that’s when the XFL should seriously look at expanding and becoming the true minor league of football.
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The CFL season is almost upon us. Well, the preseason has started but you know my thoughts on preseason anything. Hell, I looked at getting preseason Buffalo Bills tickets since it used to be a cheap way to watch an NFL game live. Nope. Not anymore. I just can’t justify paying these ticket prices for a lot of things. Maybe that’s just another way of saying I’m poor. Anyway, opening day is June 8th, right around the corner.
So let’s see if the CFL has even remotely decided to look at some of my ideas to make the CFL better. Eliminating the rouge on punts? Nope. Getting rid of the salary cap? Sounds like a few teams are over, including the fucking Ottawa Redblacks. How? How are you that bad and over any salary cap in any league? They should fire everyone in the front office. Everyone. Even the janitor. Expansion? Well, Schooners Sports and Entertainment has, for now, abandoned their journey to bring a CFL team to the East coast. Which means we are back to square one. And I am sure they won’t even look into American expansion despite the fact they should.
One more thing that should happen but won’t: they need to get a game every week on a network that is not TSN. Sure, TSN, for a few years, basically propped up the league. But now, it is sometimes painful to watch a TSN telecast of a CFL game. Why not go back to CBC? Or try something new. CTV? I know they showed the CFN games back in the day but maybe see what they can provide. Global? That would be crazy but hey, maybe it would work. Omni? No. Let’s not get stupid here.
Anyway, I will watch some of the games for sure until college football and the NFL start. Then they take a back seat to both. Or more like the trunk of an SUV. You can still see them but they are far back in the car.
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Simon Fraser decided to leave the Lone Star Conference and drop football. Or was it that the LSC dropped Simon Fraser and then the Clansmen/Clan/Red Leafs/Whatevers dropped football? The reality is that SFU decided against playing a lame duck football season in the Lone Star Conference and why not. Their old conference, the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, stopped sponsoring football so SFU and the two other GNAC teams remaining (Central Washington and Western Oregon) were picked up by the LSC so that they wouldn’t have to go Independent. Well unlike USC and UCLA playing in the Big Ten, these three schools really can’t afford the kind of travel that would have faced them.
What does this all have to do with U Sports? Well, some are saying SFU should start their football program up again and join the Canada West conference and get back to playing Canadian football. The athletic department seemingly wants nothing to do with it. This is upsetting the current players and many alumni. I mean these are the same alumni who probably didn’t support the team at all when they couldn’t fill a 3,000 seat stadium to watch this team when they competed at the Division II level but I digress.
The rest of Simon Fraser’s teams are still in the GNAC and seem to be comfortable there. OK, comfortable might be a stretch considering some of the issues with Simon Fraser athletics, namely the women’s soccer team being a gongshow and their athletic director sounding like a completely lazy fucker. But sure…comfortable. They really don’t want to move those teams unless they have to. I do believe, though, that SFU would be a good fit for the CWUAA and it’s never a bad thing to have another football program in U Sports since it’s not like there are a ton of them.
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Are we sneaking up on a smidge of realignment or getting on a fucking jet on flying at supersonic speed and slamming straight into realignment armageddon? I guess it depends on who you listen to. Some say we may see a bit of movement over the next year or two but that nothing major will happen to close to the end of this decade at the earliest. Then there are others who have the Pac-12 completely collapsing and college football heading towards a Power 2 of the SEC and the Big Ten with a third conference holding the majority of the rest of the current power conference teams. Me? I just want the damn season to start.
Well now that much of the first three weeks of the schedule has come out for college football (and parts of the rest of the schedule), I can start piecing everything together and doing the normal posts that I started doing last year. Long posts but chock-full of great info. We are 86 days away from the start of the college football season. Soon enough it will be here but don’t waste your summer counting down the days…or do. I don’t care, do what you want. Have a great rest of the week!