At The End of The Day

[FootballFan9]

It will come down to stability. The current Indoor Football Leagues need to find a business model that works, like in Spokane, WA. It seems to me all the leauges care about is how much they can get from the teams. The fans blame the owners when it is the leauges that make the money. The teams are the product, not the league. The league should do nothing else but help the teams become profitable or break even. AFL and AF2 suck the money out of the community and the teams. AIFA is a joke in the fact they are the NIFL part 2. The teams are what make a league strong. In this business the EGO is the biggest problem. The one thing I can say is the UIF is owned by the owners, that is a step in the right direction. Only time will tell what happens next. The NIFL says it has all these teams but what owner in his right mind would join that league. AIFA teams will realize that the owners are screwing them and go elsewhere, just like what happened to AIFL. The WIFL was a great idea, I do not know why it did not work, but I assume it was EGOs again.

[Minor League Man]

Do you need to post this in EVERY topic?

[phydeaux72]

Wow! Where have I heard this before. Oh yeah. That's right. It's posted IN EVERY LEAGUE FORUM.

Really, man. Why not just post it in the general "Indoor/Arena Football" forum? That way people will actually take you seriously instead of as a ranting idiot.

[Pounder]

Are we sure that it's the business model and not the game itself?

Well, the game... MOST people have their favorite NFL team and college team and high school team. Is the casual fan oversaturated?

Are there rules that could be changed to make things more interesting rather than just the basic game on a hockey rink?

BTW... about Spokane. Before them, there was Louisville. Started great out of the gate, and has slipped since. Spokane started AWESOME out of the gate, they sell out, and arguably the only way they can show growth is to force an expansion of the VMA. Do you think that'll happen? Boise started out with overflow crowds, but that thinned a bit as the season went along. I'm saying that things are not being done to keep the fans who have that initial curiosity.

[rams80]

Where's a "beating a dead horse" smiley when you really need it?