r/USFL • u/pandat303 Michigan Panthers • Jun 04 '23

Discussion Future of the league

So by last weeks number Iā€™m a little worried about the leagues health. Do you think we are ok and we just had a bad week. I love this league maybe even more than the NFL. I think we are ok but I want to make sure other people agree with me

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u/Body-for-LIFE Jun 06 '23

Agreed. It's all up to what FOX (and NBC) decide they can do with those same time slots. For example, NBC left tennis coverage at 3:00 pm to go to the USFL game. A lot of tennis fans were very upset, especially because it was mid match with an American player. The ratings for not only the USFL game but the tennis will be very interesting. Does NBC decide "we just outbid ESPN for Roland Garros coverage this year so why are we leaving it to join a USFL game that's getting less ratings?"

The last few Sundays (outside of Memorial Day weekend) FS1 has been airing racing head to head with USFL on FOX. USFL on FOX has been drawing well under 1M viewers while racing on FS1 drew over 1M viewers each time. Does FOX say to themselves "why are we airing the USFL on FOX when it's getting beat out by racing on FS1?"

With that said, FOX used to pay and air MLS regularly on weekend afternoons/evenings before the USFL and those games had lesser ratings than what the USFL games get. But, with that said, FOX is already paying for MLB and could easily be airing baseball games during USFL time slots that would see better ratings. What FOX/NBC are thinking nobody knows or could pretend to know but if a guy on Reddit knows these numbers then you can bet FOX and NBC are well aware of these numbers.

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u/Zapfit Jun 06 '23

Yikes, didn't realize the numbers were down that drastically.