USFL to return in 2013

[sportscurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by GusFrerotte

Very dumb idea. OK you are not going to interfere with the NFl, that is great, but guess what, you will be running up against MLB, the NBA playoffs, and the NHL playoffs. Sorry, but if the Caps are in the hunt for the Cup next season, folks from the DC Metro area are going to watch the Caps over anything else. I am a football fan and will check out some games just to see how it is, but I doubt it is going to go anywhere. The former USFL had NFL caliber players that gambled with going to the new league. This new league is going to be set up almost like a minor league, which isn't going to garner much interest outside of the true diehard football fan, and there are not too many of those around.

About 80,000 folks showed up to watch the Alabama University intersquad game this spring.

Similar numbers in Texas.

More than 40,000 showed up to see the Penn State Blue/White game.

There are diehard football fans out there in areas where there are no NFL teams.

Minor league baseball survives quite well in micropolitan areas because salary costs for minor league players are low enough to make the fixed costs of labor something they can cover. The key here will be "cost containment" which in football translates quickly into "keeping salaries down" and "keeping travel requirements in check".

Odds are against great success here - - but this is a different business model from the old USFL.

Oh by the way:

Memo to New USFL Owners: Do NOT let Donald Trump buy one of your franchises...