Browns to XFL?

[Official]

I've long advocated for the Browns to join the Canadian Football League. I think that's where we would have the best chance to be competitive. But I don't think Canada wants us. I've wrote their commissioner many times and have never gotten a response other than a gift card here or there in a sympathy card.

But this new XFL league looks very enticing. With out current roster, you have to assume we would immediately be in the hunt for a playoff spot in the XFL. What do you guys think?

 

[Madmick]

We need to adopt the demotion model innovated by the Europeans with their soccer teams.

It's fucking brilliant.

 

[nstig8]

We need to adopt the demotion model innovated by the Europeans with their soccer teams.

It's fucking brilliant.

We don't even have to wait for the XFL. I'm totally ok with the Browns being relegated to the SEC.

 

[COTUR1@43]

We need to adopt the demotion model innovated by the Europeans with their soccer teams.

It's fucking brilliant.

I believe the proper term is "relegated" and while interesting, no NFL owner would ever even approach the subject. Too much $$$ at stake and with the draft and roster limits/salary cap in the NFL teams can change fortunes quickly.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

We need to adopt the demotion model innovated by the Europeans with their soccer teams.

It's fucking brilliant.

A little capitalism for the rich would be nice.

If you're incompetent, you suffer the consequences and are kicked out of the league. You don't get welfare of high draft picks in order to artificially make you better.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Disagree with the browns being in the playoff hunt

 

[EOD]

I think they should send the guys who can’t cut it in the XFL to the browns. To the pit of misery! DILLY DILLY

 

[Official]

I think they should send the guys who can’t cut it in the XFL to the browns. To the pit of misery! DILLY DILLY

if it improves our roster i support it

 

[Philo-Publius]

I've long advocated for the Browns to join the Canadian Football League. I think that's where we would have the best chance to be competitive. But I don't think Canada wants us. I've wrote their commissioner many times and have never gotten a response other than a gift card here or there in a sympathy card.

But this new XFL league looks very enticing. With out current roster, you have to assume we would immediately be in the hunt for a playoff spot in the XFL. What do you guys think?

This is a great troll thread. After the season that the Detroit Lions lost every single game a number of years back, I posted an April Fool's gag on the UFL Access message boards that the Detroit Lions were going to merge into the UFL. To my amazement, there were a few posters that took it seriously.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

Cleveland Browns can go down to D1A bowl subdivision. Any college players wanting pay can quit school, and go there, and lose to Bama in the title game.

 

[jreez]

 

[Madmick]

A little capitalism for the rich would be nice.

If you're incompetent, you suffer the consequences and are kicked out of the league. You don't get welfare of high draft picks in order to artificially make you better.

Demotion, or "relegation", as our European friend up there is keen to specify, isn't intended to punish "incompetence", or franchise poverty, but rather to curb deliberate tanking. It's effective. This isn't going to do anything to stop the Donald Sterlings of the world from making money hand-over-first while being perennial losers. Those guys will just find the middle ground, and squeeze out their dollars. You can't stop that. People like him are just too smart and capable. It takes a bullshit political campaign to bring them down.

No, relegation has a nominal effect on revenues long-term. If you want to change that, then you have to go after the TV ad-sharing revenue deals. At least in European soccer, like La Liga, that is the great cause of stratification, and the nearly unassailable monopolies on talent/wins by the top teams.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Demotion, or "relegation", as our European friend up there is keen to specify, isn't intended to punish "incompetence", or franchise poverty, but rather to curb deliberate tanking. It's effective. This isn't going to do anything to stop the Donald Sterlings of the world from making money hand-over-first while being perennial losers. Those guys will just find the middle ground, and squeeze out their dollars. You can't stop that. People like him are just too smart and capable. It takes a bullshit political campaign to bring them down.

No, relegation has a nominal effect on revenues long-term. If you want to change that, then you have to go after the TV ad-sharing revenue deals. At least in European soccer, like La Liga, that is the great cause of stratification, and the nearly unassailable monopolies on talent/wins by the top teams.

Well, curbing deliberate tanking would be the purpose in American sports, but everywhere else in the world it's not even a consideration because the draft doesn't exist. The purpose of promotion/relegation really is to maintain quality in the league by kicking out the shittiest teams and and bringing up the best teams from the league below them.

And yeah, owners or relegated teams will still bring in the money but it'd be much, much less than what they're bringing in right now. Which is why it'll never happen here. I'm sure the Browns are still worth several hundred million and still bring in a profit every single shitty year. If they were to get relegated to the XFL, their revenue drop would be catastrophic.