I mean from the sound of this my “semi-pro” adult baseball league I play in, that I pay to play in, is more an economically viable option than this. The league makes money and is able to keep going without the “are we going to be around next year”. The only difference between that and the hockey league here is money…

And having those overhead things taken care of are a huge benefit I’m sure. The WNBA teams with owners who have NBA teams benefit from the same as well. The Mystics here in D.C. get plenty of advertising locally because Ted Leonsis’s Monumental Sports promotional machine. Even then women’s basketball is played in the…

Admittedly I don’t know how something like this would work for hockey. Playing surface issues are already bad enough for some teams, adding to that wouldn’t make things better by any means. That’s the reason I stuck to basketball with this example. But it still goes back to the original question... What would women’s…

What would a women’s league have to do to draw fans and be financially solvent? We’ve seen just about any gimmick possible at this point, such as an entire football league of lingerie clad football players to more traditional atmospheres like the WNBA and the various women’s professional soccer leagues, and nothing…

That first paragraph is a fantastic, never-ending sentence devoid of periods!

And getting around D.C. would have been a nightmare because Metro fucking sucks. That said, I don’t think they’d have to build anything major at all. A few smaller venues but the big stuff is all in place already.

People who say “those employees who bitch about COL are a minority and part of the problem” are actually the problem. I worked with RadioShack through college and a few years after and they started doing the same kind of shady shit.

As a multi-year Mardi Gras veteran I assure that A) yes you can manage many hand grenades in a single day and B) it’s rather amusing to watch it happen.

Yeah, I do read practice notes. Watching the game though is a completely different thing. Typically Lady Fuzzmore (of the current time) uses that weekend to catch up and learn who I really am outside of football season since it’s the first chance in like six months to actually have a weekend to do something.

Besides scouts, does anybody actually watch that game though? I like to consider myself a pretty big college football fan, but I can’t remember the last time I intentionally set out to watch one of the various showcase games.

Snyder will get his stadium (in Virginia) but the current issues with getting to and from said stadium would remain.

Highly doubtful Portland would ever get a team. They do well to support the Blazers and Timbers, but anything that would require a larger fan commitment would be super iffy. I think you nailed it with “interesting if unlucrative”

Yes it is

Fair assumption

You’ve never ridden the D.C. Metro, specifically the green line. You can get anything you need from open to close.

If the NFL is serious about cracking down on domestic violence then they blacklist this guy and don’t even let him register for the draft.

I have extended family who live in Louisiana and outside Brees I don’t think they could name many other players.

There’s almost like two classes of fans for that team, one that’s been around through thick and thin who aren’t vocal and then the nationally perceived “12" who are loud, numerous and will jump off the bandwagon the minute that team sucks again.

Reffing lower level games is absolutely helpful. You can work on the small intricacies and mechanics to fine tune them. Coming from a baseball umpire perspective we use spring high school/college season as our “game time” and then do the summer/fall rec ball games to fine tune things. Allows us to focus more on…

Oddly enough they’re still an amazingly good draw even when they’re bad. Think of how the Cubs have all those fans in places like DC and West Virginia because WGN broadcasted games over the air for years. People became fans because that’s all they could see. NBC/ND is kinda similar.