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Is a live league wide national TV deal even a possibility? Teams, arena's, ownerships, timing, quality, staff, resources and just about everything else varies wildly from team to team, and game to game. AF2 has a game day manual the size of the phone book for uniformity, and all it did for them was ...

Why didn't the IFL just simply play a season as a merged
league before attempting to become a "national" league?

I was thrilled with the merger news, but the expansion
news has sent "NIFL" shivers down my spine . . .

Wasn't Tuckman the guy named as the new owner
of Sam Adams Everett team just before it folded?

Few more . . . few less, you miss the point. The IFL
just flung themselves down a path well traveled. So
far that path has only led to failure.

Muskegon ownership reportedly didn't pay much of anything, travel is far worse, and we're talking about owners who are willing verbally abuse their customers to regain $11.00 footballs from the stands. If they actually pay their players, bills and dues, I can see their budget going up MORE than Exit...

17 + 5 = 23?

Who is the 23rd team in the IFL?

Hey now . . . lay off the "Chester" comments.
I don't want him running off, . . . where else
could I get "LMAO" commets like the one in my
signature? It's a long off season and "Chester"
is pure comedy action. I say we keep him.

I'd have to say no.

RUN IFL . . . RUN!

Or how about the AIFA . . . that's the only league claiming them right now.

So where does joining and bailing from a league
without ever playing a game fit into this mix?

I feel bad for any league that ends up with the raidahs . . .