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Post by jgary48 on May 5, 2020 3:06:43 GMT -8
The coronaviruis could give the National Arena League an advantage over its Indoor Football League rival. The Indoor Football League recently cancelled its 2020 season,losing valuable exposure and buildup it could have gotten from the demise of theArena Football League. The history of leagues regaining their status with the fans after taking a year off has not been good. The Indoor Football League faces an uphill fight that will be hard tooovercome given the position of the indoor game in the sports world. The rival National Arena League could rise up and fill the void left by the Arena Football League if it decides to play in2020. The league consists of seven teams mainly located in the south. The league has played good football during its brief existence keeping crowds on the edge of their seats on many occasions, unlike its Indoor Football League counterparts it is using former Arena Football products thus retaining some of the popularity of the old league. The league could succeed in gaining interest, if it does it may force a merger of the three remaking indoor football members into one merged league that might someday rival the interest the public has in the National Football League.
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Post by David on May 6, 2020 15:58:37 GMT -8
I highly doubt it.
You forget, the NAL was going to merge with the CIF. You don't merge leagues unless you're on extremely shaky ground. If they play its because they need to in order to survive. Same with the CIF.
If either league doesn't play, they're likely doomed. The IFL has more of a luxury to cancel the season and regroup in 2021.
As for the NAL keeping crowds on the edge of their seats unlike the IFL? Disagree. The Orlando Predators revival team was shut out 3 times last year and you had a fair amount of blowouts in a league basically run by the Jacksonville Sharks and the Carolina Cobras. Also, big credibility issue with the whole issue with the New York Streets (the field goal incident, the smaller field, the awful venue).
Also, there's 5 indoor leagues (granted they're lower tier) in the American Arena League and the American West Football Conference.
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Post by DiamondThief on May 6, 2020 19:42:22 GMT -8
I highly doubt it. You forget, the NAL was going to merge with the CIF. You don't merge leagues unless you're on extremely shaky ground. If they play its because they need to in order to survive. Same with the CIF. If either league doesn't play, they're likely doomed. The IFL has more of a luxury to cancel the season and regroup in 2021. As for the NAL keeping crowds on the edge of their seats unlike the IFL? Disagree. The Orlando Predators revival team was shut out 3 times last year and you had a fair amount of blowouts in a league basically run by the Jacksonville Sharks and the Carolina Cobras. Also, big credibility issue with the whole issue with the New York Streets (the field goal incident, the smaller field, the awful venue). Also, there's 5 indoor leagues (granted they're lower tier) in the American Arena League and the American West Football Conference. And, if I'm not mistaken, the IFL should be able to sign former AFL players for 2021, which they were not allowed to do for 2020. I would also mention that the IFL is the only league which stretches across more than half the country (both east-west and north-south). It's definitely the top dog among all of the leagues, and the most geographically national. |
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