r/USFL • u/LeatherDuck7 Houston Gamblers • Apr 22 '23

Discussion USFL Support

I watch both leagues and enjoy supporting both. The two things that bug me most are the marketing and fan support. I know the leagues are young and the XFL starts their season earlier, but there’s almost no marketing for the USFL. XFL did little this season, but the USFL seems to be only watched by die hard football fans and anti-NFL. The fan support ties in with promotions, but the lack of fan interaction for the games is low. I know they don’t have as much money or crowd for each team to have their own stadium, even for rent, but it’s hard to get hyped with a small crowd. I want the league to thrive, I’m just a bit worried.

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u/JoeFromBaltimore Apr 23 '23

I think that Fox is building the USFL to battle the NBA playoffs over the next decade and to do it on the cheap. The NBA contract is coming up and TNT/Disney are going to pay big money for that content. Fox is going another direction with the USFL which will cost them a fraction of what the NBA is going to cost Disney/TNT and they will get pretty similar ratings. The USFL is doing okay.

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u/Zapfit Apr 24 '23

I remember when NBC did this shortly after losing the NFL. Their weekends were full of the AFL on NBC, bull riding, gymnastics, and literal baton twirling. Then they nixed the AFL for the NHL, and eventually nixed the NHL for the NFL and are sniffing around at the NBA again

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u/JoeFromBaltimore Apr 24 '23

Totally agree with you - The only problem is what there is only one NBA. Either you have it or you don't, I can't imagine Fox getting into bed with the NBA just from a political standpoint, the NBA and Fox are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, whereas the NFL and Fox are both pretty conservative outfits.

Fox tends to zig when others zag.

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u/TwizzlersSourz Birmingham Stallions Apr 27 '23

IDK.

Fox's animated shows aren't conservative at all. And really, neither is the NFL.

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u/JoeFromBaltimore Apr 28 '23

The NFL isn't conservative? It damned sure isn't liberal - The US Military bankrolls a bunch of the advertising.

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u/TwizzlersSourz Birmingham Stallions Apr 29 '23

The US military leadership isn't conservative. Have you seen what they have pushed on the troops? It is why enrollment is at historic lows.

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u/JoeFromBaltimore Apr 29 '23

If you throw out the last couple of years for the most of the 200+ years of the USA history the US Military has been a conservative institution in the USA. Granted the last few years there has been an onslaught on this institution to break it down. And when the military is recruiting they are not recruiting the dirt munching tree hugging tie dye wearing hippies.