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If anyone is planning on hosting an online league let me know and I will join Beware the power of the Joester and his ... crazy plays.

Off-topic curiosity from an American: I see how David put a team in Halifax in the default Canadian league, and I also see where the CFL is playing an exhibition game there. Is there any chance that the CFL will actually put a team in Halifax? A 9-team league looks so unwieldy to me.

It'll be a 16 team American Pro League. Sort of a replay of a league a group of friends and relatives had on the original Madden game. It started off as two guys playing it and soon there were eight of us. i went through a Pro Football Weekly mag and gave ratings to all the players on all of the teams in the NFL. And we picked players to form our own team. Then we made some computer run teams from the other players.

For this game, i'll reproduce those eight teams. Plus, i'll add the teams that came with Madden, the Blitzers (the Bears w/ Payton and the 46 defense), the Ringers (the Steelers w/ Bradshaw, Swan and Stallworth), the Vice Squad (w/ Marino and the Marks Brothers), the Eighters (w/ Montana, Craig and Rice) and Madden's old team (i forget what they were called, but they had Stabler, Bilentnikoff and Casper). i'll also throw in two Playmaker teams Badmen and Whammers. And the last one is the wild card. i'm not sure what team i'll use for that.

But that will keep me busy for a while. After that, maybe i'll look into joining a league.

Initially the NFL 1995 season. Go 9ers.

Off-topic curiosity from an American: I see how David put a team in Halifax in the default Canadian league, and I also see where the CFL is playing an exhibition game there. Is there any chance that the CFL will actually put a team in Halifax? A 9-team league looks so unwieldy to me.

Halifax has won the right to bid for the 2014 Commonwealth games.Without winning the hosting of the Commonwealth games their is probably no chance of Halifax entering the CFL.Theres no staduim for a CFL team to play.The exhibition game is at St Marys University.I believe that seats around 6000.The add anouther 11000 tempory seats for the exhibition game.

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Were going with a ten team CFL type league using the actual players of the CFL.The 10th team will be in Mexico City it will be made up of CFL cuts and NFLE players.The Mexican born players in NFLE will be place on the team and classed as non-imports.

ORIGINAL: Magnum357

I think the reason why many European teams failed over the years is that the Germans seem to be the only ones passionate for football. Maybe in the future that could change, but the other European countries don't seem to support it aswell as the Germans.

There are a lot of football fans in Denmark, but becourse of our low population and soccer as the main sport I doubt that we will ever have a desent league or devlop players to play in NFL

Morten Andersen was Danish. He was a great kicker.

ORIGINAL: Panzeh

Morten Andersen was Danish. He was a great kicker.

Yes! [:)] and maybe there will be a new danish kicker in NFL in a few years, but I don't think there will ever be a danish field player in NFL

Im going with an indoor league first, just because its something we havent been able to do before.

Then I will most likely go CFL and...well, ok, I will probably just run all kinds of stuff, so much we can do with this game its incredible.

ORIGINAL: Maestro

There are a lot of football fans in Denmark, but becourse of our low population and soccer as the main sport I doubt that we will ever have a desent league or devlop players to play in NFL

Maestro,
Maybe the NFL will make some kind of a future move to get Denmark involved in NFL Europe. Maybe as part of a Scandinavian bloc to increase interest there in the Northern European area.

They do seem to want to internationalize when they find opportunities to their liking.

I'm interested in the American professional game so I'm thinking of a league that uses as many of the default U.S. cities as I can structure into one league.

I may leave some of the team names alone but will likely change most. I'll be trying to run a team in the southern California area (my home location).

Well you may be looking at a large database file since their are no limits to the amount of teams you can have (it is great!).[:D]

ORIGINAL: football man

ORIGINAL: Maestro

There are a lot of football fans in Denmark, but becourse of our low population and soccer as the main sport I doubt that we will ever have a desent league or devlop players to play in NFL

Maestro,
Maybe the NFL will make some kind of a future move to get Denmark involved in NFL Europe. Maybe as part of a Scandinavian bloc to increase interest there in the Northern European area.

They do seem to want to internationalize when they find opportunities to their liking.

I hope so, there is no doubt that the national stadium will be sold out in no time for every match

I want to create a league starting from the early NFL to modern times and then to continue to expand. One thing I worry about that hasnt been mentioned, is whether you will be able to change the league structure AFTER creating the league. Meaning, can I have expansion, add teams etc...If anyone knows the answer to this please let me know!

Real NFL players with 4 eight team divisions.
Continuation of a league I had from 1968-81, that I revived when I bought a computer in 1993 using MPS football and then FBPRO.
Canadien league.

I will make the danish league![:D]

Some interesting thoughts on what went wrong with NFL Europe in this thread...from my first-hand experience of the situation in Scotland as a Claymores season ticket holder 9 straight years, I have to point the finger directly at the NFL for having unrealistic expectations that they could have a viable player development program, a high standard of football and positive international media exposure - and not lose money hand over fist. Add to that the recent poor handling of NFL TV coverage in the UK (both in terms of the distribution of the rights and the quality of the production and scheduling) and the NFL's future in Europe actually looks pretty bad.

Indoor league. Not too sure of the teams yet. I'll probably have a mix of actual AFL teams, and custom ones. I guess it's all up to how many jerseys/stadiums I feel like creating. [:D]