How will the usfl teams first week attendance numbers sink the new league?
The UFL silently opened play last week in Las Vegas at 45,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in front of an annouced crowd of 14,209, although reports suggested the actual number of fans in attendance was much lower. (The local paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, suggested real attendance was about a third of that, putting attendance in the range of 5,000, but doesn’t really say where they attained that number. 10,000 would be my estimate looking at the number of fans in the stadium. You can stream UFL games live from their website to reach your own conclusions.) The league played its second game of the year at Orlando’s 65,000-seat Citrus Bowl in front of an announced crowd of 11,203, but Shannon Owens, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, reported some of those in attendance were using giveaway tickets. These are, to put it bluntly, horrible numbers. They are the kind of numbers a very bad team in the first year of a pro startup league might see at the end of a lengthy season. To see them i
The UFL silently opened play last week in Las Vegas at 45,000-seat Sam Boyd Stadium in front of an annouced crowd of 14,209, although reports suggested the actual number of fans in attendance was much lower. (The local paper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, suggested real attendance was about a third of that, putting attendance in the range of 5,000, but doesn’t really say where they attained that number. 10,000 would be my estimate looking at the number of fans in the stadium. You can stream UFL games live from their website to reach your own conclusions.) The league played its second game of the year at Orlando’s 65,000-seat Citrus Bowl in front of an announced crowd of 11,203, but Shannon Owens, a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, reported some of those in attendance were using giveaway tickets. These are, to put it bluntly, horrible numbers. They are the kind of numbers a very bad team in the first year of a pro startup league might see at the end of a lengthy season. To see them i
In compassion the UFL is drawing far less than it football cousins the XFL, or the old USFL. The worst USFL teams averaged 18000 fans in their first years, … Sources: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_2_0_t&usg=AFQjCNGcQxnl_72NKvVB8EB0CoHDOuFF5Q&sig2=Gqw0TLWBpgZUiFRbqFxfhg&cid=1451150608&ei=qfneSpiDJoKy8wTdm8maAw&rt=SEARCH&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.
