r/UnitedFootballLeague • u/astroknight1701 • 24d ago
Discussion Dear Mike Repole
So you’re demanding 5,000 Stallions season ticket purchases in the next few days, and then you promise “better marketing” AFTER that? Forgive me if I find that a little @$$-backward, Mike.
How about a month of solid advertising and then see how many purchases are made? Otherwise this sounds like Stan Kroenke saying he’ll keep the Rams in St. Louis if only the city spends a billion on the dome, when in fact he decided he was leaving years before.
I’ve talked to friends and family in Birmingham, big football fans, who didn’t even know the Stallions existed, and it would certainly be easy to not know given the near-total absence of marketing! If you truly believe in Birmingham as you say, let’s see it. Give the city a chance. Really get the word out and allow a little more time, and I think you’ll get the response you want.
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u/Mundane-Club-7557 Michigan Panthers 24d ago
To add to it the amount of uncertainty the league created in 4 of the fan bases doesn’t help. Some will argue that it will drive people to support but in reality it only drives the fans who were already going to a lot of games to support. For casual fans/people who are just becoming interested it drives them away. The mentality is “why would I get involved if they are going to leave anyway”.
It was truly dumb of them to do that. Had they brought repole in, made a real marketing effort, and fans didn’t come then this is a different discussion but they put the cart ahead of the horse.