NIFL Falling Apart

[JAKMAN]

Between the TIPS scandal, teams folding, schedules being rearrainged, and poor fields causing forefits and fines, I'm not sure if the NIFL will be able to make it to the end of the season. So much for that "ESPN deal" helping matters.

[Bill]

Being basically an AF2 guy... The Quad Cites debacle pretty much left us living in a glass house..

This last week for the NIFL should lay to rest anymore AF2-NIFL comparisons... IE.. We can all leave it alone..

At the beginning of the season... I posted a poll here at OSC on what we thought the Kansas Koyotes should do... Stay the course with the APFL or go NIFL... Can I change my vote now?? And I wonder how much of the for lack of a better word.. "crap" Mr. Adams saw IN the NIFL...

I really enjoy seeing new leagues and new cities enjoy the indoor game.. And I have said before... This is bad for indoor football... And most of all I feel for the fans in all those cities... Especially for the ones who have already spent a lot of discretionary spending cash in the hopes of seeing their local team in action..

Take Care All

[Herk]

Before you all go praising the APFL model keep this in mind:

1. As of right now there is only one truely Pro team with the rest presumably semi-pro and amatuer squads.

2. Who knows whats going on with both the Colorado Stars and the Wisconsin Locomotives. as of right now they both seem eerily reminiscent of the Chilicothe Lumberjacks of the 2003 APFL campaign.

3. In order for the APFL to work there needs to be MULTIPLE teams on par with the Koyotes level of play.

While I personally support the APFL, I think many of us have been over glorifying a league that as of right now has not really produced much of a product. The NIFL despite it's MASSIVE problems and stability issues I still think the NIFL is far superior to the APFL. Hopefully I will be proven wrong soon however.

[Bill]

What I was trying to get across as far as the Kansas Koyotes go..

I feel like I was wrong in my thinking that the Koyotes should have gone NIFL at the beginning of this season...

I think a lot of the positive waves we are trying to send the APFL's way are just that... Hoping and wishing for the best... Which of course includes teams with paid players... Now looking at the Iowa Blackhawks schedule I see that they play one home game and the remainder away.. I am not sure what to make of that... Not sure how many fans are going to go see A game and then follow them with any great interest ....

And to be honest Herk... I really haven't felt like anyone has attempted to overglorify the APFL.. Just what I wrote at the beginning of the last paragraph..

I did not mean to imply that I thought the APFL was superior or on equal ground at this point with the NIFL.. Just that the problems right now make Mr. Adams look like he had real reasons to shy away from the NIFL...

The good thing is that I am sure the powers that be in all leagues pay about as much interest in what I think as the presidential candidates will pay to my great home state of Kansas...

Ya thats right... I said GREAT home state of Kansas.. :D

Take Care All

[Tater]

Iowa already has several major sponsors and somewhere between 500 and 1000 tickets sold for their inaugural home game. If I heard right, the building is using this game as a test for a full home schedule next season. With all the messes in the NIFL and AF2 right now with dead or dying teams, can you blame them? :mrgreen: