NFL Lockout: How NFL Lockout Could Benefit Football in America

March 13, 2011   ·   Patrick Mangum   ·   Jump to comments

The NFL negotiations reached the lockout phase at 11:59 PM EST on Friday, Mar. 11. For me, I think about two scenarios. An NFL with replacement players and a new league with former NFL players. I think it's obvious which one of those alternatives holds the most bargaining weight.
A new league with former NFL players is much more exciting than the old league with replacement players. It would be interesting to see how both situations would play out. I could imagine some players would go back to the old league eventually. Maybe a two-league professional football scene isn't a bad idea.
Why don't players form their own league? They could share ownership, give former players jobs in management. It would be a grassroots league, more like college football.
In 2008, there was a spring football league that tried to form called the AAFL. They're still around (sort of). Their mission statement is to be a not-for-profit professional league that takes the traditions, passion and pag...

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