EA buys exclusive rights to arena football.

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Originally Posted by omfgninjas

What are you talking about? It started after the Super Bowl. The XFL's entire strategy was that it extended the football year.

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I was corrected a long while ago, and already call myself an ass thank you very much :link:

EA is really starting to piss me off.

Goddamn. I was looking forward so much to a new ESPN game. Last years was PERFECT.

Thanks you EA douchebags.

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Originally Posted by youandwhosearmy

EA is really starting to piss me off.

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I guess I'll repeat it since some of you seem to have missed it. The NFL owns the AFL. Part of the deal for EA's exclusive NFL rights was to make an exclusive AFL game. Not because the AFL game will be lucrative. But because the NFL wants there to be an AFL game.

EA securing exclusive rights to AFL isn't another douchebag move like the NFL license was. It is the same move--just another effect of it.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Alvazano is the Raiders' special teams coach now.... Some Cowboys fan you are.

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Whoops! :bang:



Former Cowboys special teams coach Alvazono. They never showed the special teams coach on the sidelines this year. I knew something was missing, but couldn't put a finger on it. I know one thing; the Cowboys special teams sucked this year.

I actually do recall seeing him on the Raiders sidelines. I was like :wtf:

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

are you done with the whole "this just in" thing yet?

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Maybe.

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Originally Posted by omfgninjas

Seriously.

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This just in, someone who posts as much crap as you really shouldn't complain.

PBMax, stop being so boring and lame.

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Originally Posted by MarkRyan

I guess I'll repeat it since some of you seem to have missed it. The NFL owns the AFL. Part of the deal for EA's exclusive NFL rights was to make an exclusive AFL game. Not because the AFL game will be lucrative. But because the NFL wants there to be an AFL game.

EA securing exclusive rights to AFL isn't another douchebag move like the NFL license was. It is the same move--just another effect of it.

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I guess your repetition didn't do much, but for some reason, I feel like you're wrong. I saw an interview on CNN with Chris Morris the writer for CNN Money regarding the deal, and supposivly the AFL approached EA before the NFL deal was even in talks. For this reason alone I feel like you're way off target.

Also, does the NFL own the AFL? I tryed searching around to find out about that, but it was to no avail. Because if this interview was any sort of accurate, then your theory is obviously not the case. I'd also love to know why the AFL liscence wasn't announced when the NFL liscence was if they were both aquired in this deal...

edit: I noticed something else also, if these liscences were aquired together, why is the NFL and NFLPA deal for 5 years, while the AFL is only for 4 years?

edit again: After furthur investigation your crazy theory that these deals were done together and the NFL owns the AFL are most likely wrong. Unless numerous reliable news sources are wrong, the deals were completely seperate, and had absolutly no relation to eachother.

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Originally Posted by GameIndustry.biz

Of course, while signing the AFL - whose games are played on smaller pitches and with fewer players than its larger rivals - is a coup for EA, it's still small fry compared to the company's recent controversial signing of an exclusive licensing deal with the NFL, the country's largest American Football league.

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Linkafied

Notice it also says RIVALS in relation to the AFL and NFL eluding to the NFL not owning the AFL (which if true, I find it kinda weird that I had never heard of that before), and also referring to how these SEPERATE signing of liscencing deals were of completely different magnitudes (the NFL's deal naturally being larger).

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

PBMax, stop being so boring and lame.

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DiffX please stop being a worthless troll.

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Originally Posted by PBMax

DiffX please stop being a worthless troll.

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PBMax, stop before you fall any further behind.

I'm pretty sure that no XFL games came on at the same time as NFL games. Can anyone confirm this?