Category: Football, Sport Author : Joshua Lobdell Posted: February 15, 2010
Tags : development, minor leagues, nfl
With the reemergence of the Arena Football League, and the continued existence of the United Football League, and of course the Canadian Football league, one has to wonder if the NFL couldn’t use an official minor league system of its own. I know most of you are going to say that College Football is the minor league system of the NFL, but with so many college teams running a spread option offense that does not teach the skills a NFL QB needs, it seems that the NFL could use a place to help develop new talent.
More of you will say what about the Canadian league; well do most of you know that the CFL plays under different rules that in the CFL the Offensive and defensive lines are required to stay a yard apart before the snap. That means this league doesn’t need the same kind of lineman that teams in the NFL does. That means this league is not helping to develop NFL line talent. In fact the closest thing, we have to NFL football is UFL football.
The value of having a minor league system is that players are playing the game, while their parent clubs are playing and in the case of injuries teams often have to turn to players who have not been playing but sitting on the sideline. In baseball when someone gets hurt they are replaced by a minor league talent who has been actively playing.
On top of the development of new talent, the NFL could use some minor league football games to air on the NFL network. That network recently struck a deal with the reformed Arena League to air their games in the spring and summer, and it could very well use more live football to draw in more viewers.
Related Links:
•The Business of the NFL
•The Business of the UFL
•The Business of Arena Football
Feb 15, 2010
It looks like the one player one vote has the all-stars a little on edge and rightly so. I like the show of solidarity by the big name dudes to show up and stand by their cohorts but I think this is going to backfire big time. Garnett, Pierce, Rondo, LaBron, etc. ditched their community service commitments to make a point and now David Stern is going to have to fine them and most likely make this whole thing worse. I agree that the joke of a proposal was a non-starter and I’m glad the players made a big play here but they probably should have thought ahead and scheduled the meeting at a time that didn’t interfere with the weekends events.Interesting tid bits from the contract offer that hadn’t quite made it out before:
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Feb 17, 2010
Minorleague football would be good for smaller markets. It’s great fun going to minor league baseball games.
Nov 2, 2011
Yes it does but in a more comprehensive manner. The NFL needs a Minor league system to REPLACE the NCAA. Not similar to Baseball, Players would come straight of high school, play 3-5 years then get drafted.