UFL opening failure.

We have a new “national” football league. It’s called the United Football League or The UFL… Their tagline is “Your Home Town team”.

The funny thing is that for a “professional” football team, they are anything but professional or hometown. They are, in fact, just another traveling act that wants to come to Las Vegas.

The league and the “hometown” team kicked off the inaguarlal season here in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Locomotives went against the California Redwoods with the Vegas team winning 30-17.

Here is the rub. Nothing about the team is hometown and nothing about the league is location based either. It is one traveling circus with piss poor marketing and even worse media coverage.

The leaugue is currently at a whopping four teams based out of either Florida or New York.  This is to save money, they say. The media coverage is imported as well. The local sports people are not allowed in unless they buy a ticket or get one of the alleged 14,000 tickets they gave away to locals.

Maybe this is the wave of the future, teams not having a true home town… but it ain’t pretty. You can’t have a local team when nothing about it is local. You can’t get a fan base when there is nothing local to grasp, see or feel.

And you arent going to get the locals into it if you block out the local media… You need us to promote you!

This is especially true in Las Vegas. Our track record for sports teams reads like the many marriages of Elizabeth Taylor… You need to involve the local people and local media if you want our support.

Time will tell, but I don’t see this team or the league going beyond this season. Even with the strong financial backing. Nobody supports a losing team for very long…

Mark Anthony