OT: Official AAF Thread
- Thread starter Harvey Specter
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Why worry with the AAF when you have free farm systems known in college, the canadian football league, and arena ball. NFLPA is not gonna openly work against currrent player interests. Never understood that line of thinking.
Yeah it’s a really weird situation. Dude bought the controlling interest in the league like 5 weeks ago and now he’s trying to sell it all. No way this was the guy’s plan to try and quickly dump it. Something crazy is going on. Will be interesting to read when more and more details emerge
I assumed they had worked something out with the league for this because it would never work if the NFL didn’t cooperate in some way. Pretty crazy that they invested this much money with no kind of commitment from the NFL to work with them
He got conned. Someone sold him with a nice presentation and likely led him to believe a NFL deal was imminent. If you don't think people with tons of money get conned like this I've got a few stories that would make you laugh/cry. Ego and the potential to make 10x your money will tempt too many of these dudes.
This was kinda obvious when they needed the $250 million midseason, even if they sold it as an investment and not a completely necessary cash infusion. Just felt like all the spin from that was not quite right. And here we are...he essentially needs the NFL to give him a deal or it's toast.
Yeah. I watched that Theranos documentary last week and it’s amazing how many of the most influential people in the world heavily invested in that scam without ever being presented any real scientific evidence that the idea was not only possible or how it could be achieved. It’s amazing how a mix of delusional confidence and an ability to spew bullshit can get you a ton of money
That didn’t take long. Will there be some weird story about the 250 million later? How could that not have been enough “extra”. That’s a lot of damn money.
Rochelle says he’s only losing 70 million so he must just be withdrawing the rest of the investment bc he thinks he’ll never get his money back
I know less than nothing about the league or the numbers involved originally, but I almost fainted when I read the number that they needed two weeks in. I would’ve bet(beforehand) there was less than that invested in the entire start up project.
I'm embarrassed that I watched two games. I knew that was too many.
The real tragedy here is that The Ole Ball Coach has probably coached his last game and given his last post game presser
he could easily still get hired by the xfl next year. Bob Stoops did. Wouldn't surprise me if they pick up Spurrier
Rumor is the guy that put $250 million in was only buying in because he wanted the gambling app the league was developing or had developed.
My man, pretty sure you can fly into Silicon Valley tomorrow morning and have someone build a better version of it for a lot less. WTF are you thinking?
I read that rumor. Sounds like some stupid PR cop out for this guy making the dumbest investment of his life. You're right. If dude wanted it, he could've gotten it from aaf cash desperate organization at a fire sale price. No need to buy the whole league
I just can’t see him jumping right into another upstart league after this one has been such a complete disaster but who knows. I mean, if he really wanted to coach that bad I’m sure there are plenty of colleges that would hire him and just have other folks do 95% of the recruiting and other admin type bullshit
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Looks like they are trying the same "start right after the Super Bowl ends" timeline that everyone seems to think is a good idea. I get the thinking, I'm just not convinced it's the right path. You are trying to draw the football fan that watches a ton of CFB and NFL. Win them and you are going to be a success. Don't win a good % of them and you fail. It's pretty simple.
I'm not sure the people are most hungry for football after 6 months of watching around 8 games a week (Thurs night, 2-3 games Saturday, 3 games on Sunday, MNF). I actually think they'd be better off starting next week, right after CBB has ended. You have a better shot of eating up some of the coverage during some of the weeks in May/June/July IMO.
Whoever operates that Birmingham Iron bank account might as well spend that last 44 dollars in some cold brews at the Good People brewery
