Sixpack football

[spider]

Professional Sixman Football Do you think anybody would support a spring pro sixman football league? Play in small markets(af2, NIFL) in cities that don't have arenas for indoor football. Use local talent, set player pay at $100 per player, smaller rosters, play on 80 yd fields.
Looks like too many indoor teams in all of the indoor leagues are falling by the way side year after year.
Sixman football would be a good alternative. There is a recreational sixman league in S.A., Texas. It's a great game and it's still being played at the high school level in many states.
What do you guys think?

[Magnum357]

It might work. I do agree that going 80 yard feilds is a much wiser idea then going with 100 yard feilds. Also, going with 15 yard first downs instead of 10 is a must with such a wide open feild. Also, I would highly recommend NOT using the point conversion rules that Highschool uses for 6 Man football. Just keep the standard 2 point conversion by Run or pass at the 5 yard line instead of Highschool where you have 2 point conversions by Kick and PAT's as run or pass.

One thing that might make this work is the fact that its a game that has a lot of action and is extremely cheap too put up in a city. With small rosters (I'm asuming you are going for 20 man rosters) and pay of only $100 a game, that means all you need to worry about for roster pay would be in the range of $20000 to $30000 a season for one team. But in order for this too work, I think you would need too pull in at least 1000 people a game and charge $5 per person in order too make it work (this is assuming a short 10 game schedule). Seting up something like this in smaller communities (much like the NIFL and AF2 does) would probably be a better option as I can't see larger cities getting into a game like this.

With the Southeast opening up some due too AF2 teams colapsing, it might work pretty well in that region.

[spider]

Eight team league with regulations I metioned earier in this thread.
Eight teams - Muskogee, Oklahoma Ft. Smith, Arkansas Springfield, Missouri Joplin, Missouri Jackson, Tennesse Greenville, Mississippi
Texarkana, Arkansas and Tyler, Texas would launch first season and then expand.

[Dan K]

Is this the same Six-Man Pro League that was attempted in June 2001 or 2002? This league had Fort Worth, San Angelo (TX), and Lawton (OK) announced as its first locations and had plans for a 16-team league that never got off the ground.

[Magnum357]

Spiders 8-team league concept could work. Setting this type of league up in smaller cites like Spider suggested would probably work much better then Medium/large size cities. And like I said above, if you can pull a minimum of a 1000 people a game and charge them $5 to $6 a game, its possible for these teams too survive.

[spider]

That's what I'm talking about here. Affordable pro football. Sixman football is a great game. If you do a lot of sponsor trade outs, you can field a whole league for what it would cost to own a indoor football team.

[Magnum357]

But are you planning too use existing Outdoor feilds or setup your own? I highly recommend using an 80 yard feild with 15 yard first downs. 100 yard feilds would be just too large for 6 man football.

Also, forget using the point conversion rules that highschool uses. If you just place the ball on the 5 or 10 yard line, that will offset the advantage of making run/pass PATs as Highschool uses. Have PAT's at the 5 or 10 would force people too kick for the PAT.

Also, one last thing, instead of 6 man, how about 7 man football? This website has a semi-pro league in Texes (Dallas I think?) that plays 7 man football as is fairly popular in that city. I would still use 80 yard feilds with 15 yard first downs.

www.sevenman.com

[brick719]

Eight team league with regulations I metioned earier in this thread.

I agree with that, its solid advice that i would follow myself.