The document below is a November secret sum-up obtained by Deadspin of something called the Spring Professional Football League , which submit itself as a non - hostile NFL alternative , to be built on the bones of the several leagues that have tried and fail before .
agree to its own forecasts , the SPFL , whose management includes a number of former XFL and NFL Europe executives , will debut in 2013 with eight team playing a 14- to 16 - week time of year . The summary number the cities under consideration as New York , Washington , Memphis , Orlando , Charlotte , Chicago , Detroit , Philadelphia , San Francisco , Denver , Dallas , Phoenix , Houston , Los Angeles , and Seattle . Teams would be centrally owned by the league , a la Major League Soccer .
you may take the full summary for yourself at the bottom of the place . Keep in mind that the document is intended to goose investment ; the numbers are projection , and rosy 1 at that . It ’s not well-defined where things stand with the conference today . If the SFPL were hewing to its timeline , we should bear a league unveil sometime this calendar month . A call to the SPFL ’s CEO , Mark E. Singleton , was not repay .
With the exclusion of Singleton , a former accountant at KPMGwhose CVhas him both gift in Mongolian mining and run anon - gain , non - partizan , for the most part non - real cyberspace forumfor public policy disputation , the SPFL ’s direction has been pull out from the NFL and the wreckage of its old competitors . The chairman and chief operating officeholder is Michael F. Keller , a former Michigan line backer and justificatory remainder who was drafted by Dallas in 1972 and who went on to become , inhis words , “ a bug out - up guru . ” Keller has figure out with the Cowboys , the Seahawks , the NFL League Office , NFL Europe , and the USFL . He was reportedly the first hire at the XFL — the conference founded by WWF owner Vince McMahon that last only one rambunctious season — where he service as vice president for football surgery . ( And he ’s the beginner of former Nebraska and Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller , who in 2009 sued the NCAA and EA Sports over the use of his likeness in video games . )
In addition , the SPFL ’s vice president of football operations , William C. Baker Jr. , is a former NFL scout who has worked with the USFL , the Arena Football League , and the XFL . The assistant to the chairman , David A. Rahn , has done front - office stints in the NFL , the USFL , and the MLS . The director of cheerleading , Jay Howarth , was in boot of XFL cheerleading , which is just about all anyone remembers of the XFL anyway .
The sum-up arouse those defunct leagues — under the header “ teach From the Past”—and offers a few “ reasons for failure . ” One of them is , “ forthwith competing with the NFL in the fall or for talent , ” suggesting the SPFL has no plans to do either . ( That ’s ultimately what did in the USFL , the last real terror to the NFL ’s monopoly . )
I mail the sum-up to sports economists Roger Noll and Rodney Fort to get their take on the conference ’s viability . They were n’t nearly as affirmative as the proposal of marriage ’s authors . Fort called it a “ precious document , ” full of “ Proto-Indo European - in - the - sky design ” and a lot of “ what - ifs . ” Noll wrote in an email : “ My overall judgment is that this is XFL redux without the pizzazz and the McMahon luggage , but with all of the other flaws . ” We ’ll have more of their analysis later .
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