Silas Redd - NFL Convert

[Thelmus]

If I was an NRL Club or the NRL itself, I'd make it a priority that one of these NFL/College is fast-tracked to the NRL with all the help/assistance they can muster. All it takes is 1 player to say he's made it (and at the same time identify all the speed bumps along the way) and they could have access to literally thousands of discarded elite athletes. 1 player, given financial assistance, coaching, and whatever else it takes, would pay that cost several times over, with what he would bring with PR in the USA. Make him the face of NRL in America and if only 1 in a hundred sports enthusiasts took the bait we'd have a population the size of New Zealand instantly following the code. Use proceeds to fund the local game over there, and we might see an expansion of the code.

 

[Battler]

If I was an NRL Club or the NRL itself, I'd make it a priority that one of these NFL/College is fast-tracked to the NRL with all the help/assistance they can muster. All it takes is 1 player to say he's made it (and at the same time identify all the speed bumps along the way) and they could have access to literally thousands of discarded elite athletes. 1 player, given financial assistance, coaching, and whatever else it takes, would pay that cost several times over, with what he would bring with PR in the USA. Make him the face of NRL in America and if only 1 in a hundred sports enthusiasts took the bait we'd have a population the size of New Zealand instantly following the code. Use proceeds to fund the local game over there, and we might see an expansion of the code.

Americans would love RL imo. The only thing Union fans claim the code has over League is that it's more 'technical': they have American Football that fills that bill, so some esoteric niche sport like Union is never going to gain any serious traction in the professional realm over there. League is an objectively superior TV sport as evidenced by ratings in Aus, and is almost the polar opposite to gridiron in that there are very few stoppages.

 

[Thelmus]

People say that Americans only like their own sports, but that's not true. Soccer at times is its own worst enemy in the way its run with parochial nationalism, nepotism and huge corruption in its administration, yet still grows year to year. League doesn't have to compete with any of the major sports or even soccer for that matter. All it has to do is promote itself to a niche market, perhaps promoting itself as an off-season compliment to grid-iron (training for off-season high school and college players). Use funds to "encourage" a named college player to participate (without making him ineligible for college football). Offer a traineeship model for elite players that offers pre-season training with an NRL club and education at an Australian university. Round it o up with promotional tours of disadvantaged high schools.
It wouldnt be a lot different to what we do here, except we would have to play on its novelty, then build on its natural combative, yet suprisingly relatively injury free play, promoting it as a "tough" test of character, in the places where boys and young men want an avenue to prove it. Its a working mans game where everyone is equal and only athletic ability, skill but mainly sheer courage and determination decide between winners and losers.
Put it this way: they televise fly-fishing as a sport. If you are desperate enough to watch that for a sporting fix, league is an easy sell.

 

[BRC088]

Aren't you allowed to ankle tap in the NFL?

 

[winslow_wong]

Is he an albino?

 

[KickHaas]

Anyone seen how he is going? is he getting much/ any game time for the jets?

 

[Painin the Haas]

None at all and they've been chopping and changing a lot

 

[KickHaas]

Thanks for reply Tstev.

Wonder what sort of job he has seeing he was going to be paid 400 a win 200 a loss....which would be hard to get if not even getting in the side

 

[1910]

None at all and they've been chopping and changing a lot

Jets have used 22 players, equal with Pride for the smallest number.

 

[Painin the Haas]

Jets have used 22 players, equal with Pride for the smallest number.

Doesn't mean he couldn't of been one of those 22. I was more referring to positions anyway finding the best fit

 

[1910]

Doesn't mean he couldn't of been one of those 22. I was more referring to positions anyway finding the best fit

Who has changed position for the Jets?