Hello everyone and welcome to another blog edition. Today’s topic is Why the sport of indoor football is dying? With owners refusing to get together and merge as one league, if they don’t act soon enough, they’ll only have themselves to blame for the failure of indoor football. Let’s go over why the sport of indoor football is dying.
There are several reasons why the sport is dying. First, the fans are tired of seeing the same teams play each other over and over again every year. The 6 leagues have anywhere from 5 to 10 teams per league. There are some new teams in those leagues that don’t last long and fold either during the season or after the season.
For example, the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles were a new team in the IFL and now are rumored to be folding after 1 year. The attendance was bad all year for the Screaming Eagles. The reason as to why this might’ve happened is Utah previously had a team called the Utah Blaze in the AFL from 2006 to 2008 and again in 2010 til 2013 before folding for good.
Fans are tired of getting their hearts broken and as a result, they won’t support these new teams coming in because they know they’ll be gone in a year or two. This is one of the reasons why the fans are tired of this and as a result has stopped coming to the games. The only way to regain the fans interest in the sport is for all 6 leagues to merge as one.
Speaking of fans not coming to the games leads to the next reason why fans have stopped coming is that of ticket prices. There are fans who don’t make a lot of money or don’t have jobs but still try to go to a game or two every year but can’t because game tickets are expensive. The prices for game tickets range anywhere from $15 to $200 dollars a game. For that price, fans could be season ticket holders to an independent baseball team or a racing season pass to watch all of the races at one track. Instead, fans would rather stay home and watch the games on Youtube. If these leagues want the fans to come to the games, they must lower ticket prices.
And finally, the most important reason why indoor football is dying is that of the owners. The owners of these 6 league refuse to get together and merge into one league. These owners don’t seem to understand that by having all of these leagues, each league is stale in there own way. Every owner wants to crown themselves champions in there own league. It’s like a Madden video game where you customize all the players for one team to be a superpower team and the rest is just like a walk in the park that you beat every single week in order to crown yourselves champions.
As I mentioned before, the fans want to see competition. They want to see different teams play each other in one league and not the same ones over and over again except divisional rivals. Competition seems to be a word missing from these owners vocabularies. 5 teams are not competition, 8 to 10 teams are somewhat competition but better than 5.
If these owners got together and merged into one league, we’re talking about having close to 30 teams for the league overall, now that’s competition. The AFL isn’t included in this because they are in their own world but as for the rest of the leagues. If they merged into one, they would have 30 teams. As long as the owners keep doing what they’re doing right now, the sport of indoor football will continue to decline and soon will just be a memory.
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