I believe both France and Germany already have their own leagues in plays.

NFL Europa was more of a vessel to make NFL more popular internationally. But its focas wasn’t mainly to develope talent.

I imagine this would just be some sort of minor league football league, maybe 12 to 20 teams or so playing in smaller markets like Wichita and Oklahoma.

The problem would be designating the players. Who goes, when do they play, Summer time?

Will it be more of a league to develope guys like Kolb and King Dunlap. Or more of a thing for practice squad thing.

The preseason is how the back ups earn spots, I beleive this should be a short scheduled pre NFL season, late summer league. Not too long, but enough to supliment the lack of NFL preseason games.

I imagine 6 to 8 games or so.

The next issue will be player designation, how do the teams designate the players.

I propose they assign 1 team to each division, 1 for the NFC East, NFC North etc. This give the league 8 teams.

Each team in that division designates a total of 10 players, totaling a roster of 50 or so. This would ensure a higher talent pool than NFL Europa. They play a season of 6 games or so, with 1 championhip game for the top 2 teams (no playoffs).

Each team can assign players that you have drafted and other backups. This gives them a vehicle to practice some, get some live action time. And give them some most needed film.

I would love players like Basket, Abiamiri, Dunlap, Kolb, Demps to all be on a squad like this.

You can start the league a month after the draft. It goes through July.

Those are just some thoughts, but keep in mind. This league will have the purspose of substituting preseason not expanding the NFL.

I would love this.

yes i was kind of disappointed when they ended that – iam a football junkie i loved to watch nfl europe
not that i dont like baseball and basketball – just doesnt have the same effect on me -

i think the cheerleading outfits should be more revealing , thongs – nipple pasties -body painted outfits – that sort of thing to make the NFL Experience that much better ha ha

I’m not really try to address what the future profitability this could directly lead to. I’m more-so saying that having some type of formal developmental league would be beneficial to these players that may be falling to the wayside. I’m also saying that if the NFL was to relaunch some kind of developmental league, that the goal of the league should be development; profit would be welcome, but development should come first.

Now, if I were going to address the potential impact these players could have, I would say that funding this type of league could be a sound investment for the owners. Think of how many players are signed every year that simply fall by the wayside. Now, many may be lacking talent, but I’m willing to bet a good portion just needed some additional time to hone their skills. First, owners are simply loosing money on investments (that’s what players are) that never give them any return what-so-ever. Imagine that you sign a rookie in the first round to a five year contract with an average yearly salary of $2.5M (this was a typical contract for a mid-20’s pick last year), he doesn’t play his first year, and he’s cut. You sign a 10 year veteran to fill that spot to a 4 year deal with an average yearly salary of $6M. What if you could invest an extra $500K into that rookie for 3 months in the offseason and he was able to improve enough to give you comprabale numbers to the aging (overpriced) veteran? Would it be worth it to eat that $500K and save the $14M over the four year span? I think so. Now it’s a give that not all of these projects would be reclaimed and blossom, but given that most of the participants in this league would be extremely young, I still think that it would be worth the investment.

Nor will it compete with the NFL, like the XFL tried to do.

It will be a supliment for the preseason, since its gonna be scaled back to only 2 games.

Expect this league to have a ton of back ups and be a short year on smaller markets.

I actually like this…each team would have it’s own “farm team” in a smaller city, ideally near enough to the big club to benefit from the locals being fans of that team, but far enough away that they’re not competing for a ton of fans with the NFL squad:

Example: Eagles’ minor league team in the Lehigh Valley Harrisburg, Lancaster, or Atlantic City (maybe these towns are too small, in this example) — what I’m going for is somewhere that’s probably still "

KC’s farm team in Omaha, Tampa’s in Orlando

What I’m going for is places where people are still fans of that NFL team, but less likely to be the people who have tickets to all the NFL team’s home games.

Expect backup NFL players to be in these teams, not players who are not on rosters. This is meant to replace an NFL pre-season.

This might just work too…it’s kind of like the Atlantic League. No way the level of competition is anywhere close to MLB, but it gives a guy a chance to stay in shape get noticed, and basically everyone in it is enough of a free agent that if an affiliated team calls, the Atlantic League’s glad to let them go.

Say Michael Gasperson or Bill Sampy is dominating for the Harrisburg Hooligans. If one of the Eagles WRs gets hurt, they could call a guy and have them already be in shape, at least.