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Re: Pro Indoor Footy
Posted By: RW "KC Swan" Lipp In Response To: Re: Pro Indoor Footy (bonecrusher)
Date: Sunday, 6 August 2000, at 2:00 a.m. US Eastern Time
> Can you imagine what the American football world thought when Jim Foster
> came up with Arena football back in the eighties?I've got to tell you, Bones, that even if I think this is a great idea (and I don't), I'm not sure what leads you to think that this is the place to recruit potential investors.
Assuming a game roster of 10, and the $200 player fee you describe, that's $2000 a game just to start. What about coaches? The players could coach themselves, you might think, but the players who do the coaching will still want (and merit) additional play. And you'll need trainers. And you've got to rent an arena (not to mention a practice facility), and provide staffing for the game. And you'll need to advertise. And a front office staff. And transportation, lodging, and meal money for road games. And I don't know what all else. But how much does this stuff cost? And here I am saying "I don't have the $2000 to guarantee payments to the players!"
Suppose you were to convince me that this IS a great idea. Enough so that I decide to take the idea to the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission and encourage them to seek a local investor. They are going to want to know those sorts of things also. Step 1 needs to be development of an investor information packet, a prospectus of sorts, that lays out exactly how much you anticipate it costing to run a franchise for a year, what sort of franchise fees you want, and exactly what you expect of the franchise holders.
Meanwhile, you don't even have a game! How do you expect to sell anybody with money on the idea without a game to play? The investor information may be step 1, but getting rules to your game is step 0.
And who do you expect your fans to be? Us here? There may be enough of us that FSW wants to force us to do their bidding to increase local market penetration. But even given that many of us would walk cross-country to see a couple of AFL teams play a match in the US, every attempt to stage such a match in the last decade has collapsed under economic reality.
What about Arena Football? Arena football survives by being a mutant version of the most popular spectator sport in America.
What about Indoor Soccer? Created on the belief that the kids who grew up playing soccer were finally old enough to make entertainment budget decisions. And the mistaken belief that they all wanted to watch soccer. Combined with an attempt to eliminate the typical American belief that Soccer is boring, so they tried to make it more like Hockey. (Soccer isn't really boring, it is just the way American's play it that is boring. And even then, I'm talking about the men. If the US Men's team played with the all out abandon of the US Women, they might be surprised how many people want to watch...or I could be wrong, it could be all Brandi Chastain...but I digress) The last attempt at "Major League" indoor soccer went bankrupt, and never could successfully establish a franchise in the New York City region.
What about the Major Indoor Lacrosse League? Exists only in that part of the country where collegiate Lacrosse is popular.
I hate to be so negative, but I have read these messages and just shook my head in disbelief. But hey, if you want to tilt at windmills, tilt away.
-- RW "KC Swan" Lipp
 Re: Pro Indoor Footy | bonecrusher | Saturday, 5 August 2000, at 10:20 a.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: Pro Indoor Footy | RW "KC Swan" Lipp | Sunday, 6 August 2000, at 2:00 a.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: Pro Indoor Footy | Bob | Sunday, 6 August 2000, at 2:39 p.m. US Eastern Time |
| Re: Pro Indoor Footy | RW "KC Swan" Lipp | Tuesday, 8 August 2000, at 1:04 a.m. US Eastern Time |
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