We should make a football league in the US and have each state represented by a team
Posted by Ok_Brief_2556@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 28 comments
Its really crazy but I think it would be cool having 30 or 50 states in a football league with rivalries and all that
Danktizzle@reddit
We do. Only the professionals are dubbed “amateur” so the teams don’t have to pay them their deserved salary.
DJFreezyFish@reddit
Most power 5 college players are from out of state, and they do get paid now. D3 sure, but that’s not exactly professional.
Danktizzle@reddit
It’s sad how the the money people can rename sponsorships and call that a paycheck and the fans just eat it up.
Sure. Sponsorship is money. But it’s damn insulting to say that is all they deserve when gate tickets are over $2k.
Additionally, they only get sponsorship- I mean NIL- money for three or four years then they are unemployed? Fuck off. Get paid as much as you can for your work in that situation. Because there’s a 98% chance you ain’t making the NFL.
Americans are such simps for monopolies. It’s pathetic.
Bulldog5124@reddit
You obviously aren’t well educated in the financials of college football. What team charges 2k to get into their games regularly? I’ve been at some of the most anticipated games in CFB history (2019 LSU - Bama for example) and they still didn’t reach near that for anything but premium seats.
Secondly, only D1 schools are really profitable off their football programs and even many of them aren’t actually profitable. Obviously power conference schools are but I doubt UNA and UL Monroe are making bank. A large portion of their money comes from power teams paying them to come get smoked.
Lastly, yes the school is only going to pay them for the 3-4 years they attend. They are literally being paid to play football, and get a degree if they so choose. Many schools can’t afford to pay players but I’d consider free education to be a pretty nice bonus for the kids that aren’t at the top level schools. That 3-4 years is what they use to get a career when they finish if they don’t make the league.
kingjakerulez7@reddit
The little league world series
projectjarico@reddit
Man has just invented college football. Wonder if it'll take off?
duskfinger67@reddit
One could presume they are referring to a world cup style team where you represent the state you were born in, not the one where you are paid to attend college in.
JadedCycle9554@reddit
If that's the case California would just dominate ever year. Huge Latino population and the largest state overall by a large margin. Maybe instead of every state it's like 16 regions that are fairly evenly distributed by population
ScytheFokker@reddit
Lol, what? California isn't even the 2nd largest state. What are you smoking, and can you share? I wanna know what that feels like.
JadedCycle9554@reddit
Largest state... By population. You know the metric that your a dually matter in a scenario where each state gets one team...
ScytheFokker@reddit
☝️. Lol
JMS1991@reddit
Population doesn't necessarily equate to the amount of football talent. If you look at the number of players in the top 300 of this year's high school class, Texas, Florida, and Georgia would compete for the top spot with 42, 37, and 36, respectively. California and Ohio would be the next 2, but they have half the number of top-300 players (19 and 13).
RoboticBirdLaw@reddit
Wrong football, I think. Florida and Texas are dominating this one.
JMS1991@reddit
Georgia would be pretty good. Ohio too.
JadedCycle9554@reddit
But... We already have that
Ok_Brief_2556@reddit (OP)
Yeah that's what I meant I shoulda said that
seifd@reddit
What if states could have more than one?
Routine-Rule9607@reddit
And then what if we named the teams something like Florida State? And then we could probably make regional divisions like one called the Southeastern Conference or something.
JakeDuck1@reddit
Why does the title say each state represented and then in the post it says “30 or 50”? Where are you getting 30 from?
LymanPeru@reddit
we might lose a few states due to getting rid of vaccination rules in school.
Ok_Brief_2556@reddit (OP)
Idk 50 might not round off into clean divisions so if 50 didn't work I would do 30
JakeDuck1@reddit
But isn’t the whole point of the idea to have every state?
Ok_Brief_2556@reddit (OP)
Yes 30 is just plan B and plus if every state is picking from their state for the team states like Vermont and Wyoming might not have much of a chance against better competition
P1zzaman@reddit
I hope you mean actual football and not the American kind.
Alternative-Worth620@reddit
That is the real football. Soccer is just for inferior nations.
LymanPeru@reddit
ouch, you didnt have to do that, he would have fell down on his own and pretended that you burned him.
I_might_be_weasel@reddit
That's boring. Make every state build a giant robot.
LymanPeru@reddit
..and play baseball instead of football. BASEWARS!