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Exactly my point. There is a vast difference between having cash to spare and selling assets to generate cash.

Even the CFL Birmingham team had better attendance than that and it was regarded as one of the biggest failures of CFL expansion.

It is as bad as it looks because optics and bandwagoning is EVERYTHING to this league right now to this league. 38000 fans for 4 games is terrible attendance no matter what the reason is. Teams papering the crowd with a pair of tickets with a 5 dollar happy meal will not create positive buzz for this league. At the end of the day for this league to be successful EVERY team is going to need to average high teens or low twenties attendance because EVERY team has a 9 million dollar player payroll and huge overhead. There is not a single break even franchise in this league at this point, and most are bleeding cash.

50 million for the rights to the name XFL....lmao....does anyone out there still think that Ebersol and Polian are good businessmen.

If you are selling assets are you making money? He is financing the XFL by selling assets. Assets are finite, and he will only sell so much of his WWE stock where the bulk of his wealth is tied up.

Smart move by the CFL because there is zero chance the CFLPA is going to ask for or even wants that and now they can't let CBA negs drag out or the lesser compensated will put pressure on the union to make this happen. Divide and conquer. Pit the muckers against the Nats and upper echelon IMPs. Weaken the union's resolve a week or so before negs begin.

He doesn't have money to burn. Most of his personal wealth is not liquid, it is tied to the WWE who has capped this little adventure at 100 million.

True. However it's all about profit. McMahon could run a profitable small time football league if he's smarter then the shmucks running the AAF who blew their brains out when they decided on taking on 52 million a year in payroll for players. That's before benefits which will cost them a fortune.

If you book your room direct with the hotel and can somehow get tickets without going through tour operators, and don't mind eating at non peak hours or taking charter buses back to your hotel before events are finished...you should be fine. If any of that doesn't suit you go to Calgary would be my recommendation. Crappy football venue but a very nice city with a lot of amenities and infrastructuire.

I honestly hope that Regina has sorted this stuff out because it was a complete joke. The touring company booked about 75% of the hotel rooms in Regina and then gouged everyone for a room. I even heard stories on our bus trip of some guys being double booked into rooms with strangers.

Vince will pay his players peanuts compared to the AAF. Their salary structure is completely out of whack.

Of the dozen or so Grey Cups I've been to around Canada, Regina was the only one that I did not enjoy. From the collusion between hotels and bus tours to completely rip people off, to having to walk back to my hotel because I made the mistake thinking that taking a cab was a possibility, to 3 hour waits in line for restaurants it was a complete fiasco from start to finish. NEVER AGAIN REGINA!!!

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This obviously one the Regina reporters asking him this, (who else would care) and Mike Reilly gave a P.C. response instead of laughing in his face. Everybody knew Reilly to BC was a done deal since mid season of last year. I guess the best way to end any speculation of tampering by Hervey is for Reilly to say he was open to offers though.

Vince is crazy to do this again.

They won't see a valid point being made because they refuse to even consider it. Ignorance is bliss over there.

Micah Johnson is a very good player, but Jefferson is an elite playmaker. I'll take Jefferson every time as well because his individual play can win games for a team, Johnson will not provide game winning plays. Last year we were two or three plays away from going to the Grey Cup...that's what it boiled down too. Walters went out and got us a player that might provide a couple of those plays every game. Johnson just clogs up the middle and forces a team to go in a different direction, You can game plan for Johnson...like Bighill, you can't game plan for Jefferson you just have to hope he's not on the top of his game.

Rider fans like to point out that their team surrendered the least amount of sacks last year and therefore they have a great OL. Anyone with half a brain, and who actually watches the game with a touch of intellect, knows that nothing could be further from the truth. They surrendered the least amount of sacks because their ENTIRE passing game was throwing the ball within 5 yards of scrimmage. Quick hitters. It is impossible to get sacks against that, but it is impossible to score consistently that way too. The reason they did that is because in their first couple games it became abundantly apparent that their OL sucked in pass pro. They want to put all the blame on McAdoo for the offensive struggles and game plan but really when you have an OL that is like swiss cheese and a QB who gets concussed when someone looks at him...what choice do you got? Will be much of the same this year.

Mr. Roosevelt feels they should throw the ball more. What a shocker. There is, however, a reason that the RIders "aerial attack" did not throw for more than 3 yards at a time. They had a glass QB playing behind an OL that could not protect him. Pretty simple really. Kinda like what we did when we had Buck Pierce, 3 step drop and throw for 4 yards. I don't see what has changed. If McAdoo wants to stretch the field he'll be doing it with Fajardo by game 3.

Sucks to lose a talent like Evans to another league, but rumor in Cowtown was that the Stamps were getting closer to re-signing him. This will weaken them.

Expect a call from Dundon's representatives soon. He's a little busy right now trying to figure out how to get his GM in Carolina to trade all his defence men away but I heard he is intrigued about your new PONZI league.

Polian set up a pay structure that he knew (or should have known) would bankrupt the league, in hopes he could get some household names to attract fans. It backfired big time and now they have Looney Dundon running the league.

For those that don't know, in NHL circles, Dundon is generally regarded as a complete wing nut. He is the laughing stock of BOG meetings. He has outlandish ideas he wants the NHL to adopt to make the game "more exciting". Think choreographed dance performances after every goal. Mark my words within a few weeks the AAF players will be dancing. He already has the Hurricanes doing it.

There player payroll is almost double that of the CFL.

It would be stupid if he actually gave 250 million up front. He didn't do that, he bought the league on a 250 million dollar "commitment". All that means is if things go swimmingly he is willing to bankroll the league for awhile until it gets traction. Make no mistake, if the league continues to flounder he will get out LONG before he spends 250m on it. Dundon may be rolling the dice on this league in order to get his name on the list as a future NFL owner. IF he can turn this dog around it will get him noticed in football circles. If he can't he will be out of dodge faster than you can shake a stick and long before he spends 250m. At any rate, look for wholesale financial changes to this league in the near future. Dundon is going to clip expenses at an exponential rate after this season....maybe sooner.