A Brave New World For Pro Football

[Aaronhere]

With the AAFL and UFL on the horizon, and NFL Europa finished, what will the pro football outdoor landscape look like in the next few years? Indoor football? It changes every week it seems. In my brave new world, the NFL expands to 36 teams (Los Angeles, San Antonio, Birmingham and Orlando). A new spring-summer minor league is formed with twelve teams (3 NFL parent clubs)

NFC East
Philadelphia Eagles
Washington Redskins
New York Giants
Carolina Panthers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Orlando
NFC Central
Green Bay Packers
Minnesota Vikings
Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions
Atlanta Falcons
New Orleans Saints
NFC West
St. Louis Rams
San Francisco 49ers
Arizona Cardinals
Seattle Seahawks
Dallas Cowboys
San Antonio

AFC East
New York Jets
New England Patriots
Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins
Jacksonville Jaguars
Baltimore Ravens
AFC Central
Cincinnati Bengals
Cleveland Browns
Pittsburgh Steelers
Indianapolis Colts
Tennessee Titans
Birmingham
AFC West
Oakland Raiders
San Diego Chargers
Denver Broncos
Kansas City Chiefs
Houston Texans
Los Angeles

NFL SCHEDULE
* Home-and-home series with division opponents (10 games)
* One game with rotating division opponents in other conference (6 games)
* One game with each team that finished in same position as team in other conference divisions (2 games)
SAMPLE SCHEDULE - Green Bay Packers
at Chicago Bears
OAKLAND RAIDERS
SAN DIEGO CHARGERS
at Minnesota
DETROIT LIONS
at Atlanta
at New Orleans
DENVER
at Kansas City
at Philadelphia
ST. LOUIS
CHICAGO
at Houston
at Los Angeles
MINNESOTA
at Detroit
ATLANTA
NEW ORLEANS

[Jamie]

I think the least likely of those four proposed expansion cities is Orlando. I would expect Tampa Bay and Jacksonville to nix a team so close to their markets...

[firewolff]

An article on the UFL page noted that there are two spring leagues in the works. We all know about the AAFL, has anyone heard anything about another one?