The question is when do we get to use them for online fantasy football..

Not a chance in hell.

I will put them on for background noise as I assemble the party shak this fall....

I would think the thirst for football would be higher in the offseason, and yet none of those other leagues have worked. As for me, I'll check out the first game if I'm not doing anything else, but if it is as lame as the XFL, count me out.

How about not playing in the ****ING FALL?

The idea of another league is to cash in when people crave it. On any given weeknight, you can flip to ESPN and watch a college football game or just watch an extremely popular TV show and get your football fix by actually going to a live game on the weekend.

As i mentioned already, they have tried spring time/summer football numerious times with past leagues and failed.

I think they decided to be different this time and go with the fall.

I honestly think this league would be wise to try and sign Vick to help create some "buzz"

The USFL was doing reasonably well with spring football, and died only when it tried to go head-to-head with the NFL in the fall. And back then, you couldn't watch 60,000 college games on a given weeknight.

The XFL was a complete cluster**** that still might have survived if it hadn't been so reliant upon NBC.

Honestly, this league makes the XFL look sensible.

I think having the league's season run in the fall is a big mistake. Have it in the spring, when NFL fans are thirsting for anything with a pointy-ended ball. Trying to have a new league go directly against the NFL is business suicide. I don't care if their games happen on the "off" days for the NFL; we wait, like junkies, for training camp and preseason and then the real games to start, and I doubt most of us will turn our attention even fleetingly to a "fake NFL" at the same time. Move it to February-through-July and you've got a deal.

hardcore fans like must of us on this board will always watch. What else are we going to be doing on Wed/thur nights while we are updating our fantasy rosters?

Spring time is College basketball.... Also after March madness, its time to get outside and take in the sweet weather.

Don't forget MNF

There are college games on now on those nights (Tuesday sometimes, too).

I doubt I'll watch the UFL, except maybe once, out of curiousity.

Only if I was forced to watch.

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No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!

For DIEHARD football fans, you watch any time football is on... PERIOD! Don't be blinded by the thought of it being a gimmick. Take it for what it is, more football!