smaller league

[spider]

Years ago I tried to launch a outdoor pro sixman league. Maybe now it's time has come. I think a smaller league with less expenses will work in the spring.
There are a couple of leagues in Texas already playing and there is a eightman league playing on a 50 yard field and I noticed today that Baker is thinking about playing an outdoor game.
Sixman football will work!

[ChampionOfSteel]

Years ago I tried to launch a outdoor pro sixman league. Maybe now it's time has come. I think a smaller league with less expenses will work in the spring.
There are a couple of leagues in Texas already playing and there is a eightman league playing on a 50 yard field and I noticed today that Baker is thinking about playing an outdoor game.
Sixman football will work!

My only request is to make sure the field is smaller than 80 x 40 yards like we have in Texas 6-man high school football.

Every other game is a game shortened mercy-rule blowout. A slight speed advantage kills. That is not entertainment.

We don't need the CIFL mentality being born in an outdoor six man game.

Work on the game system with various rule tweaks and field dimensions in a bunch of exhibition games until an identified game system can handle moderate talent and speed differences without ending in a blowout.

[afdave]

With 6 man football, I think you could go almost with the idea the one guy came up with to play on a basketball court sized field (32 yards long, 25 yard field, 3 1/2 yard long endzones, so, no real "camping out" for a catch in the endzone. Field would be only 16 yards wide, vs. 28 yards in AFL).

Although, with playing outside, you might want to make the field a bit larger since you wouldn't be limited to a basketball court sized field. Maybe 40 yards between the goallines with 8 yard endzones. Only 10 minute quarters (the scoring will be high enough). Maybe even 20 minute halves instead.

Also, what are the formations and rules with 6 man ball?

[gatek99]

why dont you try to launch basically arena football but outdoors, have the 8 man team with 3 down lineman, just no walls and same field dementions

[rams80]

why dont you try to launch basically arena football but outdoors, have the 8 man team with 3 down lineman, just no walls and same field dementions

Because that is the height of bush league.

[ChampionOfSteel]

Because that is the height of bush league.

I don't agree with you definition of bush league if that's the case.

[gatek99]

Because that is the height of bush league.


what do you mean by bush league?

[rams80]

what do you mean by bush league?

If the post-"UIF breakaway" NIFL did it, by definition it is bush league.

[Dan K]

Ah yes, Professional Sixman Football (Six Pack Football) circa 2004.

It does seem that current sixman leagues are semi-pro/rec leagues. Two of note are the Pennsyslvania Sixman League [www.leaguelineup.com/pfl6] and the Texas-based Sixman Football Association [www.eteamz.com/sanantoniosixman. There was even a Texas-based five-man league started in 2005 called the Fiveman Football Federation. I don't know if it is still around.

Some semi-pro/rec 8-man leagues are the Texas-based American Eightman Football League [www.leaguelineup.com/aefl], the Illinois-based 8-Man Football League [www.8fl.org] and Central Plains Football League [www.cpflfootball.com]

That's enough of this talk on OSC.