25-11-2015, 20:35
(This post was last modified: 25-11-2015, 20:41 by St Charles Owl.)
This game won't happen anyway. The MLS over here will object to it being played here just like they did when the PL mooted the idea. To the MLS a game like this diminishes their standing and interferes with what they are trying to achieve over here.
Not quite true, players that don't make the NFL rosters have a number of options. First is to make the practice squad that each NFL team has. These squads are put together so that the first team can practice against decent players but without playing their first team offence against the first team defence. It also allows the coaches to work in depth with the offence or the defence without having to worry about each other in terms of what they want to work on. Secondly, players who do not make the NFL can go and play in Canada in the CFL, which is made up of mainly American players. Thirdly they can sign up with a team in the Indoor league, a place a number of current NFL players went and eventually got into the NFL.
Of course the other part of the system is that all the players go through college and get an education so can turn their hand to a completely new field if they don't make it to the NFL. Of course they don't always work too hard at other classes but they do get something out of 4 years at college.
(25-11-2015, 18:35)Trusevich Wrote: While we're on the NFL, as an aside, I find it remarkable that there are no amateur teams, no rural leagues, no pub leagues at all in that sport. You join your High School team, if you're lucky you get to be one of the 3-4% of players that then make their College teams, then you get to be one of the 7% who get drafted to an NFL team. If at any point you don't make the grade, there's no fall-back, there's no lower league to play in, there's no other route into the senior game That's it, you're done. You never play that sport again.
As I said, I find that remarkable.
Not quite true, players that don't make the NFL rosters have a number of options. First is to make the practice squad that each NFL team has. These squads are put together so that the first team can practice against decent players but without playing their first team offence against the first team defence. It also allows the coaches to work in depth with the offence or the defence without having to worry about each other in terms of what they want to work on. Secondly, players who do not make the NFL can go and play in Canada in the CFL, which is made up of mainly American players. Thirdly they can sign up with a team in the Indoor league, a place a number of current NFL players went and eventually got into the NFL.
Of course the other part of the system is that all the players go through college and get an education so can turn their hand to a completely new field if they don't make it to the NFL. Of course they don't always work too hard at other classes but they do get something out of 4 years at college.
