AAF Needed $250 Million Investment to Avoid Missing Payroll

I think I saw Ayers make a couple of catches. Out a few big names in there like Vince Young I am willing to watch.

 

You really do have to question the viability of any league that is surprised by expenses in week 2.

They weren't just a little short on finances, it's like they though everything was gonna be free after the actual product launched.

 

Maybe some pie in the sky projections on ratings, advertising and attendance/concessions; when they could conceivably all be goose eggs.

 

I think that $200 - 300 million range is what a franchise would have sold for in the early '90s. Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams could make these kinds of bets and loans on the AFL and less solvent owners partly because Hunt was a bottomless pit, but also because the NFL had such glaring blind spots on population growth outside of the Rust Belt, incorporating the passing game and some stragglers on racial integration like Preston Marshall. This is just a sinkhole, there are really no un-turned stones anymore, any large city that doesn't have a team now probably wouldn't get any radio revenues or a large enough income base subsidize skyboxes or PSLs.

 

Something something something........Tilman Fertitta.