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Theres also the Arena Football League and the AFL2.

One of the reasons I dont think an NFL-D league would work is because football players shelf-lives are too short imo. Its not worth it for a team to develope a player in a minor league system for a few years to have them come up and play for a limited time in the pros. College football is basically the NFL-D league...

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yeah this is an excellent point, and aside from a few guys who come out of nowhere late in their careers, it's a pretty efficient market in football - it's fairly rare for an undrafted player to have a huge impact.

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That was one of the factors I was worried about. I was just thinking that the US market is so hungry for football, that someone would "smell" TV revenues and say, a spring summer CFL could have a market, but only if they could draw a link to the NFL product.

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I really don't think Americans are *that* hungry for football. The XFL died on the table and the World Football League abandoned its North American based franchises fairly quickly IIRC. Arena football is popular in the cities where it's played but I can't see it becoming a television phenomenon. Football can really be a horribly boring game if it's played poorly - and I suspect such a developmental league might fall into that trap.