The New USFL

[AngeloV]

I wouldn't be shocked to see the CFL come to a player-sharing agreement with the XFL, if their season will end before ours begins.

I would be shcked if this happened. For starters, the XFL season ends as CFL training camps would be starting. You would get players back up here with the risk of fatigue late in the season, or serious injury in which you also may lose your player for the entire season. It would greatly diminish the CFL product. Football is not meant to play year round, I don't believe players bodies can take playing 2 football seasons in one. In fact, I will say there is no way this will happen.

[jerrym]

I would be shcked if this happened. For starters, the XFL season ends as CFL training camps would be starting. You would get players back up here with the risk of fatigue late in the season, or serious injury in which you also may lose your player for the entire season. It would greatly diminish the CFL product. Football is not meant to play year round, I don't believe players bodies can take playing 2 football seasons in one. In fact, I will say there is no way this will happen.

I totally agree.

[Mocha]

I would be shcked if this happened. For starters, the XFL season ends as CFL training camps would be starting. You would get players back up here with the risk of fatigue late in the season, or serious injury in which you also may lose your player for the entire season. It would greatly diminish the CFL product. Football is not meant to play year round, I don't believe players bodies can take playing 2 football seasons in one. In fact, I will say there is no way this will happen.

Yes, definitely there would be risks, and I think it would depend on when the XFL season ends. But . . . IF the CFL believes the XFL can survive for several seasons and would represent a talent drain without player sharing, I think they might consider sharing.

[ArgoRavi]

Yes, definitely there would be risks, and I think it would depend on when the XFL season ends. But . . . IF the CFL believes the XFL can survive for several seasons and would represent a talent drain without player sharing, I think they might consider sharing.

I just don't see this happening. 10 or so XFL games along with at least 18 CFL games in a year is simply unsustainable on players' bodies. The CFL tried this twenty years ago with the Arena League and it didn't seem to work out that well back then.