Would you watch minor league basketball/football?

[kschellenger]

Sammykid11 got me thinking when he suggested many cities could support minor league basketball and football.

[SL__72]

There is no market for this anywhere.

[brettbrettr]

Why? I"d watch minor league football. I'd be more into it if they played upper round picks, but I'd def watch it. Especially the Jets farm games...

[Aces McGee]

I voted yes because I like keeping up with college players (I like watching college sports more than pro sports). However, I don't think that these leagues would be particularly appealing to a wide-enough audience.

-McGee

[SL__72]

Because unlike baseball, college football and basketball are hugely popular.

[kschellenger]

It seems to me that I would not take an interest in either simply because I have college teams to watch and pro teams to watch. I already don't care about arena football or the NFL Europe (the few times it's on TV) and I certainly have enough quality college basketball to watch and keep up to date on.

[TheRover]

Only if someone puts a line up for it.

I would definately watch minor league football if the individiual franshices each own a team or 2 and put their players and prospects on the team a la Baseball. However, if it was just a minor league where some of the playrs didn't belong to a team and some did a la Hockey I would not watch. But minor league football is basically college football except the college players would make more money.

[brettbrettr]

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Because unlike baseball, college football and basketball are hugely popular.

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Duh, you are just so right. Thanks.

hell yeah, I'd love to watch d-league basketball... but that's because Im a college bball player...

I'd be hard-pressed to go to a d-league football game