Could this be another example of how Mark Cuban is letting his ego get yhe best of him? Did his show on ABC work out well? How many World Titles have the Dallas Mavericks won? Why doesn't he just buy a Pro Wrestling company and go after WWE?
2007-05-31 02:15:17 · 16 answers · asked by mntazzy 2 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
This has been tried so many times and has failed every single time. The only successfully try is Arena Football, because it is different, smaller field etc.. There is no possible way this will work.
2007-05-31 02:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now it is only in the planning stages and nothing is definite. The way Mark Cuban has explained it...The league will have 8 teams. They will play on Friday night, a night typically dominated by high school football. They will look to sign players who were drafted below the second round and free agent players. They would also look to sign players cut after training camp and preseason. He also explains that with the salary cap issues in the NFL the new league can afford to pay more money to those types of players. Whether this new league will be successful, or even get off the ground, is anyones guess. We have see from previous examples, (XFL, WFL and USFL) that they almost always do not, the one notable example being the AFL which was able to merge with the NFL.
2007-05-31 09:58:05 · answer #2 · answered by Tony M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Mark Cuban's goal is to compete with the NFL, I think it is to make even more money. Cuban has a nose for what people want and his efforts in the past have helped to make him the millionairre that he is today. Football is a popular sport and there is money to be made in it. I think that with teams in selected cities (ones without an NFL franchise), the league can make a go of it. It just is not a good idea to have it compete against the NFL. Properly promoted and run, it may succeed for a while, but it will never replace or even be on a par with the NFL.
2007-05-31 02:31:26 · answer #3 · answered by P.I. Stingray 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mark Cuban is clearly an idiot and mentally disturbed for trying to compete with the NFL. He knows his Mavericks haven't produced the championships in the NBA to get him global recognition, so now hes going to try and compete with the most popular sport in america. The AFL is the only closest thing to a second option to the NFL due to new rules, shorter field etc.. All the other competitors failed: The WFL, USFL, and the crappy XFL. As far as creating a developmental league like NBA has, we have one already called NFL Europe (Europa now). And for your opinion onbuying a wrestling company, its a good idea, but Vince McMahan monopolized all of them already wit that incident where his kids purchased WCW and ECW to compete with Vince.
Bottom line is Mark Cuban is never really focused on the team he already owns in the Mavericks and hes trying to find new ways to get recognition and make money. Although there all stupid decisions, i guess being an uneducated billionaire and egotistic can do that to you.
2007-05-31 03:07:40 · answer #4 · answered by calisurfer941 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The WFL was to compete with the NFL. So was the USFL. They failed. This will fail too. The NFL is the most powerful sports league in the US and no new league will be able to compete in the long run. The WFL got players like Paul Warfield and Larry Csonka and the USFL had Jim Kelly and Herschel Walker, but a handful of players can't save a new league.
2007-05-31 02:41:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if the new league doesn't try to take players from the NFL. And sticks to using and developing the D-II and D-III players i think it will have a good chance. Them staying out of the cities the NFL is already in is a good start. They should keep positions at a certain pay scale so they don't sink like the USFL did in the 80's.
2007-05-31 02:38:50 · answer #6 · answered by actkinson43 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently Mark Cuban does, but past history goes against him, with the exception of the AFL. Pro football has reached the saturation point and who wants to watch pro football on Friday night. Bad idea...and thankful he never got his hands on Chicago Cubs ownership.
2007-05-31 04:00:43 · answer #7 · answered by clown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully not compete with NFL in the sense he will put it in the Fall. If he is smart he will put it for the spring and should select cities that dont have an NFL team close by.
2007-05-31 02:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by SUPADAVE25 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Cuban and the other owners in this new league atre smart, they won't compete with the NFL, but alongside it like Arena Football.
2007-05-31 02:19:35 · answer #9 · answered by soxfans5 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I actually think that he thinks he can W-O-W. The only way that could happen is if he went back into the past and made sure the NFL was never created!!!
2007-05-31 09:16:20 · answer #10 · answered by TheBostonBuckeye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋